# Wiki Recommendations?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 17, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930 "2007-02-17T19:36:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930/1 "2007-02-17T19:36:04Z")

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Last time I did this dance, i2 was the all around best choice for a  
Ruby wiki that was available.

Have things changed?

My priorities are in order:

1. Must run on TextDrive. (Most options should fit this one, right?)
2. Usability / Stability. Don’t want it to blow up
3. Ease of install
4. Ability to make it look pretty
5. General l33tn355

This will be for the GoRuCo attendees wiki, incase anyone is wondering.

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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930/2 "2007-02-17T19:49:05Z")

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From: “Gregory B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> 1. Ease of install
> 2. Ability to make it look pretty
> 3. General l33tn355

I haven’t tried many other ruby wikis, but I just installed  
SOKS: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/)

…and it seems to be a pretty nice one.

As for ease of install, it was very easy, with just one quirk:

In the start.rb file that it generated for me:

require ‘rubygems’  
gem ‘Soks’, ‘~\> 1.0.3’  
$LOG.info ‘Loaded Soks from gem’  
require ‘soks’ # ← I had to add this line and I don’t know why

For some reason, just requiring the gem was not enough to  
cause soks.rb to be loaded. I looked at the gemspec and it  
appeared to specify the correct auto-require and lib dirs,  
so I’m not sure why it didn’t work as expected.

But apart from having to add that explicit “require ‘soks’” line,  
everything has gone smoothly so far.

Regards,

Bill

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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930/3 "2007-02-18T03:22:04Z")

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Bill K. wrote:

> From: “Gregory B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
> 
> > 1. Ease of install
> > 2. Ability to make it look pretty
> > 3. General l33tn355
> 
> I haven’t tried many other ruby wikis, but I just installed  
> SOKS: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/)
> 
> …and it seems to be a pretty nice one.
> 
> As for ease of install, it was very easy, with just one quirk:
> 
> In the start.rb file that it generated for me:
> 
> require ‘rubygems’  
> gem ‘Soks’, ‘~\> 1.0.3’  
> $LOG.info ‘Loaded Soks from gem’  
> require ‘soks’ # ← I had to add this line and I don’t know why
> 
> For some reason, just requiring the gem was not enough to  
> cause soks.rb to be loaded. I looked at the gemspec and it  
> appeared to specify the correct auto-require and lib dirs,  
> so I’m not sure why it didn’t work as expected.

The ‘gem’ statement merely states what gems should be used. It does not  
do any requiring, auto or not.

– Jim W.

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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-recommendations/85930/4 "2007-02-20T02:31:22Z")

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On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:34:58AM +0900, Gregory B. wrote:

> 1. Ability to make it look pretty
> 2. General l33tn355
> 
> This will be for the GoRuCo attendees wiki, incase anyone is wondering.

I haven’t played with it much yet, but have you given junebug a try yet?

[http://www.junebugwiki.com/JunebugWiki](http://www.junebugwiki.com/JunebugWiki)

enjoy,

-jeremy