# \[ANN\] Rassmalog 12.0.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-12-0-0/144694 "2008-08-01T09:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-12-0-0/144694/1 "2008-08-01T09:34:21Z")
Rassmalog is a static blog engine based on YAML, eRuby, and Rake. It transforms blog entries written in Textile or other formatting systems into valid XHTML files that you can view on your computer or upload to your website. ``` http://rassmalog.rubyforge.org ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HTML version of this release announcement is available here: [http://snk.rubyforge.org/web/2008-07-31-version-12-0-0.html](http://snk.rubyforge.org/web/2008-07-31-version-12-0-0.html) Version 12.0.0 Contents • 1 Caution □ 1.1 Entries □ 1.2 Configuration • 2 Features • 3 Repairs This release features a redesigned user-interface that improves navigability in graphical and text-mode web browsers alike, localizes almost all of Rassmalog’s output via translation files, and revisits the philosophies of KISS, DRY, and YAGNI. 1 Caution 1.1 Entries • The text parameter in blog entry files has been renamed to body. You can update your existing blog entries by running the following command inside your Rassmalog installation directory: ``` find entries/ input/ -name '*.yaml' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's,^text:,body:,' ``` • RedCloth 4.0.x is now required by the default implementation of config/format.rb. This version of RedCloth introduces the following incompatibilites because, unlike the previous 3.0.4 version, it no longer supports Markdown syntax: □ Lines indented by two or more spaces are no longer converted into a preformatted block ( ``` ). □ The depth of a list item ( ``` - ) is no longer influenced by the level of indentation. □ Four or more consequtive hyphens are no longer converted into a horizontal rule ( * * * ). □ Line breaks are now converted into directly. So do not “hard wrap” your lines to a fixed number of columns, but instead write each paragraph as one long line and configure your text editor to perform “soft” word wrapping for readability. □ and so on… 1.2 Configuration • config/format.rb is now required to implement a String# to\_inline\_html method, which converts the string into a HTML expression composed of inline content (as opposed to block-level elements at the root of the expression). • In the config/blog.yaml blog configuration file: □ The following parameters have been removed: ☆ links — You can create custom menus in the input/about.yaml about page instead. ☆ new\_entries — The “new entries” list has been removed. Instead, the default behavior is now to take the visitor directly to the newest entry in the blog (see entrance parameter below). ☆ summarize\_entries — Entries are now always summarized in lists. You can still control whether they are summarized in RSS feeds via the last parameter of the feed method. □ The front\_page parameter has been renamed to entrance. The default value of this parameter takes the visitor directly to the single newest entry in your blog, rather than to a listing of n newest blog entries. • Translation files for the Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Taiwanese languages have been removed because the new machine translation service I am using does not support translation of English text into those languages. Please do not be alarmed at this decision, for these particular files have always been the result of machine translation; no human has yet contributed corrections for them. 2 Features • More icons, less text. • Simple, consistent navigation. • Improved CSS styles for printing (and print preview). • Added instructions for using a Javascript-based commenting system into the user guide. • All English phrases emitted by Rassmalog are now translated using the LANG#[] facility, with the exception of input/search.yaml and input/about.yaml. So you no longer need to edit templates and such in order to localize Rassmalog: simply create or edit a translation file and update the language parameter in your blog configuration file accordingly. • An about page (found at input/about.yaml) has been added to the default configuration. 3 Repairs • Incorrect URLs were generated in config/feed.erb if the url parameter in the blog configuration file lacks a trailing slash. • Cleansed the CSS styles by removing unnecessary cruft and refactoring common styles between the screen.css and print.css into common.css. Date 2008 July 31, Thursday 09:49 PM Tags project · rassmalog Comments You may send comments by e-mail.