# Blog.rb 1.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog-rb-1-0/93399 "2006-04-01T19:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ilmari\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a587f6/32.png) [@Ilmari\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ilmari_H)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog-rb-1-0/93399/1 "2006-04-01T19:08:07Z")
blog.rb 1.0 Blogging - the Ruby Way. blog.rb is a full-heap, open-source blog framework in Ruby for writing real-world blogs with joy and less keystrokes than most frameworks spend doing markup sit-ups. Features of blog.rb: - blog.rb has a simple syntax, partially inspired by vi and ed. - blog.rb has exception handling features, like emacs or nano, to make it easy to handle errors. - blog.rb’s operators are syntax sugar for the regexps. You can redefine them easily. - blog.rb is a complete, full, pure line oriented blog: LOB. This means all data in blog.rb is a line, in the sense of cat: no exceptions. Example: In blog.rb, the number 1 is a line. - blog.rb’s LO is carefully designed to be both complete and open for improvements. Example: blog.rb has the ability to add characters to a file, or even to a line during runtime. So, if needed, a line of one file _can_ behave differently from other lines of the same file. - blog.rb features single line-feed only, _on purpose_. - blog.rb features true bytes. Not just one-byte characters, but without encodings. - blog.rb features numbers in its syntax (characters in 0…5 range or 6…9 range). These numbers can be passed to the operators, or converted into lines. - blog.rb features a true modify-and-overwrite IO subsystem. It works with all blog.rb lines. You don’t have to care about maintaining post counts in concatenated files. This is better for your health. 😉 - Writing text files in blog.rb is easier than in Blogger or MovingType, due partly to the IO subsystem, and partly to the fine file API. Pipe interface is also available. - Lines in blog.rb can (and should) be used without counting their internal representation. There _are_ unwrapped lines (shorter than your terminal width) and wrapped lines (over-wide), but you need not worry over which one is used currently. If a character count is short enough, a line is an unwrapped line, otherwise it is a wrapped line. Conversion occurs automatically. - blog.rb needs no character declarations. It uses simple naming conventions to denote the case of variables. Examples: simple ‘a’ = lowercase, ‘A’ = uppercase, ‘!’ = punctuation. So it is also not necessary to use a tiresome ‘line\_number.’ prepended to every word. - blog.rb can load its data file if an OS allows. - blog.rb features blog independent networking. Thus, for all platforms on which blog.rb runs, you also have the possibility of networking, regardless of if blog.rb supports it or not, even on MS-DOS! 😉 - blog.rb is highly portable: it is developed mostly in ~/, but works in many types of /home, c:, h:\Documents and Settings, ~/Documents, files:my\_blog:, etc. LICENSE: Ruby’s