Mandarina Blog Engine

This blog engine is written with the Ruby on Rails framework and is a test lab for my ruby learning. It has some basic features. It has been designed to fit to my blog's needs http://feelfree.homelinux.com.

Installation:

gem used: Rails 1.2, (RedCloth, htmlentities, xml-simple installed as plugin).

   1. download mandarina at http://code.google.com/p/mandarinablog
   2. unpack the files
   3. create your databases, create & tune the file database.yml to match your installation
   4. run rake migrate
   5. browse your blog url and create the original user 

That's it.

Mandarinablog wiki: http://code.google.com/p/mandarinablog/wiki/Main

List of plugins:

    * archives: shows a montly list of previous posts
    * analytics: non visual plugin, it enables code for google analytics stats
    * categorylist: shows list of blog's categories
    * pagelist: shows list of blog's pages
    * search: live search in text and tags
    * linklist: shows a list of link (blogroll)
    * quicklinks: 3 links to quickly access to login, new media and rss page
    * langswitch: switch blog's langage to FR or US
    * amarok: show the song played in amarok, via amaroknowplaying plugin
    * catgraph: shows a graph of posts per categories
    * weather: shows actual weather in a city
    * flickr: shows random photo of a flickr account
    * gallery: shows a random photo of a gallery2
    * themeswitch: switch between 1 of 10 themes proposed
    * deliciouscloud: shows the tags cloud of a del.icio.us account 

Features:

    * simple installation
    * live post preview
    * multiple themes
    * easy plugins management
    * comment spam protection with logical captcha
    * works with rails 1.2 since svn version 70
    * Textile_editor plugin & and Textile syntax for posts since svn version 151 (Markdown before)