# Hobix Dead?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035 "2008-02-04T13:59:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035/1 "2008-02-04T13:59:09Z")

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Hello

Is Hobix dead? I do the magical [Hobix.com](http://Hobix.com) incantation:

ruby -ropen-uri -e ‘eval(open(“[http://go.hobix.com/](http://go.hobix.com/)”).read)’

…and get errors. I then race here:

> **[OSDIR](https://osdir.com)**
>
> edit post Gaming How To Check If US iGaming Platform is Safe July 13, 2021 edit post Gaming What made

and see that I need the subversionversion. Off I go to Rubyforge,  
where I see the version from 2004.  
I swing by [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net) where I see I can click on  
“source” under (dormant) Hobix  
and download each source text file one by one to my computer (or not).

If I go to “wiki” I can click on “code” and see that Mental has  
checked in some stuff a month ago.

Now on to here: [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/)  
…where I can log in with my Rubyforge account and then hit a bit of  
a dead end, because the  
welcome screen is this: [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/WELCOME](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/WELCOME),  
which suggests I go back to  
[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/)

Is something else going to happen now or is it time to write my own  
Hobix?

Les

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035/2 "2008-02-04T14:08:03Z")

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On Feb 4, 2008 6:58 AM, Leslie V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I swing by [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net) where I see I can click on  
> which suggests I go back to  
> [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/access/)
> 
> Is something else going to happen now or is it time to write my own Hobix?
> 
> Les

you can ‘svn co [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/hobix/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/hobix/)’. But it  
is pretty much dead.

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035/3 "2008-02-04T14:35:57Z")

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> you can ‘svn co [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/hobix/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/hobix/)’. But it  
> is pretty much dead.

I had a Junebug wiki, which I used much like a blog. I put all sorts  
of articles about  
programming and sysadmin etc. there. Now that South Africa has daily  
power outages though, I can’t run it reliably at home any more and have  
been searching for an alternative. I have tried [Blogger.com](http://Blogger.com) and  
Wordpress,  
but I cannot post syntax highlighted, properly formatted code on  
those sites without a huge amount of hassle (ie. I interpret it with  
Maruku  
and paste the html in the box).

Is there any free online blogging service that can do Ruby syntax  
highlighting??  
If not, and I can get access to my own server in a non-banana country,  
is there  
a Ruby blogging engine that can syntax highlight code and preferably  
accept posts  
in Markdown?

Hobix looked promising.

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hobix-dead/128035/4 "2008-02-04T17:00:21Z")

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On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Leslie V. wrote:

> Wordpress,  
> accept posts  
> in Markdown?

Take a look at Webby

[http://webby.rubyforge.org](http://webby.rubyforge.org)

It’s a not an online service, but it will handle Markdown and do  
syntax highlighting. Webby generates HTML files that you can sync up  
to your webserver.

Bruce WIlliams is using it for his site, [http://www.codefluency.com](http://www.codefluency.com).  
It does pagination, ATOM / RSS feeds, markup, syntax highlighting, etc.

Blessings,  
TwP