On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Bothari wrote:
Group,
I'm working on an app for a volunteer organization, and I need a
"bulletin board" feature for announcements and handouts for events. I
think we just need a place to put all the details for an event, the
occasional picture (for display in the text), and usually an
attached word doc
with further instructions. It needs to display the newest dozen or
so, and page back to older items.
I was thinking this would be like a very simple blog. That way you
could upload and display the pictures and attach documents, disable
comments, and have a more rich text interface for lists and
formatting.
Has anyone else tried a simple, embedded ruby blog in their
application?
Joe
consider using tumblr, although they are a standalone blog they
support embedding the content in another page and all actions are
available via api. i have a library for it here http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/tumblr/tumblr-0.0.1/bin/tumblr
(gem install tumblr).
in any case i'd use something external with a community so it can grow
without you having to program each 'new feature' ;-) it also helps to
have another site linking back to your site and to have features like
rss and friends built for you.
another option would be to use twitter for this. either option,
though, would require putting the documents somewhere online, but
using s3 for this is ultra simple too.
comatose is a decent plugin for rails but, personally, my skin crawls
as soon as i start writing something blog-like for the 8 millionth
time ;-)
cheers.
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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