Instablog

I am playing around with the idea of creating a minimalist weblog in ruby along the lines of instiki. Most of the blogs that I have played around with require Apache and Mysql to run. Not a real big deal, unless you are at work and don't have a server, or don't want to deal with setting up Apache and Mysql.

The key to making this happen is the Webrick server that comes with ruby. I was playing around with Webrick a little. It is pretty simple to give it a directory to serve html out of, but I couldn't quite get it to interpret .rhtml files. I was sort of assuming that it would parse the .rhtml without any problems. Unfortunately it looks like it isn't that simple. One bad thing with ruby is that sometimes when you run it to problems the documentation can be a bit sparse. There is some documentation out there for Webrick, but, it is a little sparse.