# \[ANN\] Rassmalog 7.0.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-7-0-0/116404>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 5, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-7-0-0/116404 "2007-10-05T07:15:59Z")\
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**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:** [October 5, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-7-0-0/116404/1 "2007-10-05T07:15:59Z")

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Rassmalog

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.

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        http://rassmalog.rubyforge.org

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Version 7.0.0

Contents

• Caution  
• Repairs  
• Updates

This release cleans up the configuration, restores support  
for users with 640×480 screen resolution, repairs some  
defects, and improves performance, the default CSS theme,  
and the documentation.

1 Caution #

• In config/blog.yaml, the following parameters have been  
renamed:  
□ recent\_entries → num\_recent\_entries  
□ table\_of\_contents → generate\_toc

• In config/format.rb:  
â–¡ The format:verbatim tag has been renamed to  
 for consistency with the HTML  
tag.

• All forms of punctuation are now replaced with a single  
dash (-) in output file names. As a result, you might  
have to update your existing usage of URLs to other  
blog entry output files.

• The rake clean command now removes all output files  
that were generated by Rassmalog—instead of removing  
all files that were copied from input/ into output/.

2 Repairs #

• The search page is now updated whenever a blog entry is  
updated.

• The search form was being submitted (causing the entire  
search page to reload) when JavaScript was disabled in  
Firefox.

• The default CSS theme is now friendly for users of  
640×480 screen resolutions. In fact, the theme is now  
fully elastic, and thereby supports any screen  
resolution!

• URLs for fragment links are no longer shown in the  
printer-friendly CSS style.

3 Updates #

• You can now use eRuby directives and HTML formatting  
directives in the values of more parameters in config/  
blog.yaml. The documentation for these parameters has  
been updated with usage emblems.

• The performance of the Chapter#[] method has been  
improved.

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**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:** [October 6, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-7-0-0/116404/2 "2007-10-06T05:00:45Z")

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There were a few overlooked issues with yesterday’s 7.0.0  
release, so I made a new 7.0.1 patch release with the fixes:

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=2737&release\_id=15243](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2737&release_id=15243)

Cheers!

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Version 7.0.1

This release repairs the following defects:

• Redundant dashes (-) are now squeezed into a single  
dash in URI fragments.  
• Added consistent padding for blockquote in the  
input/styles/screen.css file