WordLess
Repository hosted on GitHub
KHI End User License Agreement:
I’m sure you don’t like reading these stupid things any more than I like writing them, so we’ll keep it short and sweet:
- This software is provided to you, for your own personal, private use, without any kind of warranty or promise of support whatsoever.
- You are licensed to use this software, not to distribute it or sell it. I ask that you please not mirror any files which I have not explicitly relinquished my exclusive copyright to anywhere without prior authorization.
Sound cool to you?
I installed WordPress once; it made me shove a file full of passwords in my document root and generated over 32KB worth of warning messages with every page load under PHP5. It also sucked unholy amounts of ass—much like every other blog manager/content management system out there.
Now if you’re a stay-at-home soccer mom, you might need a fancy AJAX web form that looks just like a Word window and a crippled markup DSL to insulate you from all the scary computer-talk, in which case a big, bloated blog engine makes perfect sense. If, on the other hand, you know how to write HTML and don’t want to bog your server down with a bunch of ridiculous
overhead that doesn’t really make anything any more convenient, what’s the point?
WordLess is a stupidly simple Rails plugin that will automatically populate any controller it is called from with a public action method for every view file it finds in a directory of your choosing. If you can make a file, you can make a post.
With WordLess, you do all of your publishing through your SCM and Capistrano. There’s no databases, no comments, no RSS feeds, no pagination and no article management. If you want any of those things, then you want something else. I most certainly did not, so that’s why I wrote it.
Install via: script/plugin install git://github.com/khiltd/WordLess.git