Blossome is a hacker blog. As opposed to other blog engines, this was is intended to be modified/hacked.
It's built on: Sinatra + haml + sass with posts written in Markdown with some help from Mustache.
- Clone the whole repository
- git clone https://github.com/danpal/blossome
- Install all dependencies
- cd blossome
- bundle install
- Start the server
- shotgun config.ru
- Open chrome
- go to: 127.0.0.1:9393
Post go in the /posts folder. They are written with markdown, here's the rules:
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The name of the file is the route. So foo-bar.md is accessible at /foo-bar
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Filenames have to end with .md
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At the top include a description in between "-----" Eg:
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title: "Title of the post"
description: "this goes on the SEO description"
keywords: "some, SEO, keywords"
date: October 31, 2012
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- Date format is Month day, year. Full name on months.