# Recommendations for a Rails based Wiki, preferably with bidi **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 22, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-rails-based-wiki-preferably-with-bidi/73176 "2006-10-22T15:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-rails-based-wiki-preferably-with-bidi/73176/1 "2006-10-22T15:28:46Z")
We are going to deploy a Wiki system for a medium load website. Any recommended Rails-based options? The Wiki doesn’t have to be feature-rich. It can be simple, but should be elegant and easily extendable, as the people who are going to use it are mostly hackers. The only special requirement is that it would have decent bidi support (for Hebrew pages). But if you know a good Wiki codebase answering the above description, we might extend it to support bidi by ourselves. Cheers, -Alder ---
**Author:** ![alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-rails-based-wiki-preferably-with-bidi/73176/2 "2006-10-22T16:50:58Z")
Rails has a generator called SQLiki, but I haven’t used it yet (perhaps you can answer my post wrote at [SQLiki: Help - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/85409)) You can find the generator on page: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/SQLiki](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/SQLiki) Alder G. wrote: > We are going to deploy a Wiki system for a medium load website. Any > recommended Rails-based options? > > The Wiki doesn’t have to be feature-rich. It can be simple, but should > be elegant and easily extendable, as the people who are going to use it > are mostly hackers. > > The only special requirement is that it would have decent bidi support > (for Hebrew pages). But if you know a good Wiki codebase answering the > above description, we might extend it to support bidi by ourselves. > > Cheers, > -Alder ---
**Author:** ![alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alder)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-rails-based-wiki-preferably-with-bidi/73176/3 "2006-10-22T17:19:46Z")
On Oct 22, 4:50 pm, Damaris F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Rails has a generator called SQLiki, but I haven’t used it yet (perhaps > you can answer my post wrote athttp://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/85409) Hi Damaris Yes, you do need to create the database _and_ three tables - pages, drafts, and links - for the generator to be usable. The instructions - including complete SQL sequences for creating said tables - are inside the Gem file, which is just a TAR with a fancy name 🙂 You will find the README inside the Gem, in a file called data.tar.gz, inside a subdirectory called templates. I hope it works for you, to me it looks like a nice way to add some Wiki features to an existing Rails application. It doesn’t appear, nor aspire to be, a standalone Wiki package like Instiki. And it’s self-designated to be alpha. So, not exactly what I’m looking for. -Alder ---
**Author:** ![alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@alder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alder)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommendations-for-a-rails-based-wiki-preferably-with-bidi/73176/4 "2006-10-23T00:38:08Z")
Alder G. wrote: > I hope it works for you, to me it looks like a nice way to add some > Wiki features to an existing Rails application. It doesn’t appear, nor > aspire to be, a standalone Wiki package like Instiki. And it’s > self-designated to be alpha. So, not exactly what I’m looking for. Lots of thanks!! However… my basic project is intended to be a Wiki, not other different application with wiki stuff… Are you meaning SQLiki is not appropiate for that?