wondering if people have recommendations for a simple to use ruby
wiki? there seem to be quite a few abandoned projects on rubyforge,
and the instiki site itself is basically out for the count.
Among those listed, Wiki2Go [1] seemed to me the most promising as it
is good looking, has significant and active deployments and is actively
maintained by a group of people. The key phrase here is "a group of
people", since projects with single maintainers have a much higher
probability of being abandoned, even if temporarily.
The wiki engine used by RubyGarden itself looks solid. It's called Ruse
but it "is not being distributed yet" [2] and the corresponding
RubyForge project has no activity and no files.
Thanks. And try Instiki, or a Rails-oriented Wiki.
My Wiki is "ambitious", which is a software engineering code-word for: "I
spend too much time adding cool features, and not enough time cleaning,
productizing, or extracting insects".
Its base features will work fine out-of-the box, and it has technical and
esthetic details that other Wikis often don't. The RemoteLink system, for
example, is just an example of how this Wiki lets you customize things
in-the-wiki, without resorting to scripts or excess markup.
Among those listed, Wiki2Go [1] seemed to me the most promising as it
is good looking, has significant and active deployments and is actively
maintained by a group of people. The key phrase here is "a group of
people", since projects with single maintainers have a much higher
probability of being abandoned, even if temporarily.
The wiki engine used by RubyGarden itself looks solid. It's called Ruse
but it "is not being distributed yet" [2] and the corresponding
RubyForge project has no activity and no files.
The original maintainer of Instiki, Alexey, all but disappeared.
There was a user who took up a branch and merged some fixes and also
opened up a repository. Not sure what the status with that is,
though.
There is also i2, which is a super simple Rails wiki originally
written by DHH. Its behind the official Rails wiki, and I use it to
power the Madison Ruby wiki (http://www.madisonrails.com) with some
simple modifications and a captcha plugin I developed. I like it
because the code base is tiny and easy to change and hack. So the
fact that i2 is not properly maintained isn't that big of an issue, as
it "just works" if you need something simple.
I'm looking forward to Ruse being officially released, as well.
- Rob
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On 10/10/06, ramalho@gmail.com <ramalho@gmail.com> wrote:
dc wrote:
> wondering if people have recommendations for a simple to use ruby
> wiki? [...]
> any suggested progressing wiki projects?
Looking for the same thing, I found this page helpful:
Among those listed, Wiki2Go [1] seemed to me the most promising as it
is good looking, has significant and active deployments and is actively
maintained by a group of people. The key phrase here is "a group of
people", since projects with single maintainers have a much higher
probability of being abandoned, even if temporarily.
The wiki engine used by RubyGarden itself looks solid. It's called Ruse
but it "is not being distributed yet" [2] and the corresponding
RubyForge project has no activity and no files.
=> See ''Hiki'' which is a powerful and fast wiki clone written in
Ruby. Hiki - FrontPage
ramalho@gmail.com wrote:
> dc wrote:
> > wondering if people have recommendations for a simple to use ruby
> > wiki? [...]
> > any suggested progressing wiki projects?
>
> Looking for the same thing, I found this page helpful:
>
> http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/RubyWikis
>
> Among those listed, Wiki2Go [1] seemed to me the most promising as it
> is good looking, has significant and active deployments and is actively
> maintained by a group of people. The key phrase here is "a group of
> people", since projects with single maintainers have a much higher
> probability of being abandoned, even if temporarily.
>
> [1] http://wiki2go.nayima.be/
>
> The wiki engine used by RubyGarden itself looks solid. It's called Ruse
> but it "is not being distributed yet" [2] and the corresponding
> RubyForge project has no activity and no files.
>
> [2] http://wikis.onestepback.org/Ruse
>
> I wonder if anyone knows what's up with Instiki. It seems the
> instiki.org site has been down for many days (weeks?) now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano
There is also i2, which is a super simple Rails wiki originally
written by DHH. Its behind the official Rails wiki, and I use it to
power the Madison Ruby wiki (http://www.madisonrails.com) with some
simple modifications and a captcha plugin I developed. I like it
because the code base is tiny and easy to change and hack. So the
fact that i2 is not properly maintained isn't that big of an issue, as
it "just works" if you need something simple.
I'm looking forward to Ruse being officially released, as well.
- Rob
Can you provide a link where I can download and evaluate the wiki engine
that you mention. I'm in the process of evaluating Wiki engines for my
pet project.