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 More options 11 Jul, 01:57
From: celldee <cell...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri 11 Jul 2008 01:57
Subject: Re: Staticmatic as a Blog Engine
On Jul 1, 3:14 am, "Ryan Mulligan" <r...@ryantm.com> wrote:

> -RSS (the hard part)

> I haven't found a good service for building RSS feeds from a website yet. If
> anyone knows a good service I'd like to use it to save work. My plan right
> now is to integrate RSS generating functionality directly into Staticmatic.

> To make a directory have RSS support, you would put an atom.xml.haml file in
> the directory you want to enable support for. Then inside that file there
> would be ruby expressions that 1. build a list of files and publication
> dates and 2. takes this list and outputs an RSS feed in Atom format. If the
> publication date is left out, we'd use the file modification time.

> This RSS code would also include some code for generating an archives page.

> I'd want to make this as easy as possible to use, so that might involve some
> custom rake tasks for writing new posts. Any suggestions about how to make
> this simpler would be welcome.

> Also, please let me know if you think there are some fundamentals to blogs
> that I haven't addressed.

> Ryan Mulligan

You might want to take a look at Webby (http://webby.rubyforge.org).
That generates an Atom feed via a Rake task and seems to work well.

Regards,

Chris
http://smuby.org


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