WBlog

The missing open source blog system on Ruby on Rails.

WBlog is open source blog which built for mobile first, it's licenced on MIT, use it for free!

中文说明文档

Characteristic:

• Awful reading feeling for reader
• Independent comment system, store data on your own sever
• With mardown supported, you can post both powerful and clean formatted article(s)

A demo came from my English blog: http://en.yafeilee.me

Power Admin Dashboard: http://en.yafeilee.me/admin, user and password are configurable.

System dependencies

• Ruby ( >= 2.0 )
• Mongodb ( >= 2.7 )
• Nginx ( >= 1.4 )

Features

• Responsive, iPhone, iPad, Notebook, PC, all are supported
• QR Code attached article, scan and share it
• Inpendent comment system, managed by yourself
• Markdown supported, code highlight, especially for programmer, like you
• Personalize it, commercialize it, it all depends on you

Goal

Make it to the best Ruby on Rails Blog system in the world.

Study it locally

WBlog MUST run in Linux or Mac, it depends on Mongodb database. You can run it like a Ruby on Rails project as usual:

1. Clone it

git clone git@github.com:windy/wblog.git

cd wblog

2. Install dependencies & configure

# Install mongodb ( see how to install it on your platform )
# on Mac, you can install it like this:
brew install mongodb 

bundle install
cp config/application.yml.example config/application.yml
cp config/mongoid.yml.example config/mongoid.yml

Update application.yml & mongoid.yml as you need

3. Start it

rails s

If there is any error found, please check your database's user and password.

4. Post the first article

visit: http://127.0.0.1:3000/admin, input your username and password that is just configurated in application.yml. then, post a new article.

OK, That's all.

Deployment

WBlog uses mina as automation deployment tool, uses unicorn as the Rack container.

WBlog recommends nginx as reverse proxy server.

It will be very fast.

Ruby on Rails project deployment is another big topic, I would NOT talk it here.

You can read WBlog wiki for more information: WBlog 的发布流程(Chinese only now)

Stack

• Ruby on Rails 4.2.x / Ruby 2.x
• AngularJS
• Foundation 5
• mina
• slim
• Mongodb

Related open source blog systems

• writings.io( Ruby on Rails 4.0.2 ): a multi users blog system https://github.com/chloerei/writings
• jekyll( Ruby Gem, Markdown): Static blog system http://jekyllrb.com/
• octopress( Github Pages ): http://octopress.org/
• middleman( Ruby Gem ): Another static blog system https://github.com/middleman/middleman
• robbin_site( Padrino ): https://github.com/robbin/robbin_site