Sample Wiki application

A sample app to try out a Wiki engine. The following tools are used:

• Ruby 1.9.2

• Gollum – A git powered Wiki engine, also used in GitHub
• Rails 3 – Latest Rails to provide a frontend for an application
• Bundler – Gem packages manager
• Haml – Template language / HTML generator from Rails
• JQuery – JavaScript framework used unobtrusively
• Jammit – Asset packages compressor
• RedCloth – Adds Textile support for Wiki markup

Getting started

• Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libmysqld-dev

• Use proper ruby version

rvm use 1.9.2

– (Install if you don’t have it)

• Create a Git repository for the wiki:

git init —bare db/wiki.git

• Get Gem dependencies:

bundle install

• Setup the database config:

cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml

• Create the database:

rake db:create

• Run database migrations:

rake db:migrate

• Finally start an app and check it out at http://localhost:3000:

rails s

TODO

• Testing with Factory_girl, Shoulda
• Fix table of contents hierarchy (parent_id is not set for awesome_nested_set gem)