AK's weblog

Today I released golbikiw 0.1, the very first version of my very own weblog software which will act as a framework for my experiments with weblog concepts. You will need at least Ruby 1.8 to run it, because the CGI module of Ruby 1.6 behaves completely different to the one from 1.8, and it seems a bit buggy, too. You will probably have to adapt all the *.cgi files, because they point to /usr/local/bin/ruby as interpreter in the shebang path, while on most Ruby installations, the interpreter can be found in /usr/bin. OSX users need to install Ruby 1.8 by hand, because even OSX 10.3 ships with Ruby 1.6. Additionally, you will need the html-template module from the Ruby Application Archive.



After extracting the package and adapting the shebang paths, you have to make sure that the entries subdirectory is writable to the user under which your webserver runs. That's because golbikiw is solely based on flat files. All the configuration files can be found in the conf subdirectory, and should be fairly self-explaining.



Version 0.1 is likely to be buggy in some places, so if you try it out, and see some bugs, please report them to me.