For the new site, I’m going to be using Markdown to handle the formatting of all of my content. I created a simple helper to make things easy:
def markdown(str) RDiscount.new(str).to_html end
(Note: I’m using the RDiscount library instead of BlueCloth, for reasons discussed here)
However, what if I wanted to add a “Read more” link at [...]
I put together a quick video showing where I’m at with the new design and backend for KyleSlattery.com. Take a look, and let me know what you think!
“Posts” will make up the majority of my site’s content, and there will be a few different types: articles, reviews, links, and comments. While I could create separate tables in the database for each, I’ve decided to utilize Rails’ single table inheritance, whereby multiple models share the same table and some common behavior. [...]
In my first post, I mentioned building a content management system from scratch. To introduce the project, I figured I should go through my reasons for it, and what I want to accomplish.
Why write my own?
Sure, there are loads of systems out there for running a web site, and it’d be really easy to [...]
