--------------enigFCB5FFAF5822C0612DDC09CB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is Scratch? Scratch is a little toy I put together in Ruby on Rails. Think of it as a spin-off of my larger Rails app, Elite Journal. If nothing else, you can think of Scratch as a demonstration of the new Action Web Services component of Rails. From the web page: Scratch is the minimalist's web log. Scratch gives you nothing more than the meta-weblog API for posting. Reading is done via Atom or RSS. That's it. There's no HTML to hack up. You don't have to use the same, tired old web log template that everyone else is using. Break out of that blue, rounded rectangle! Be original! Thumb your nose at those primitive apes still using the web! Use Scratch! Scratch can also serve as a framework for developing your own weblog package, if that's the way you roll. There are no categories, comments, tags, users, blah, blah, blah. None of that bloat. Scratch is what it is and it ain't no more. Installation % gem install Scratch % scratch From here you'll need something like MarsEdit or ecto to post and an aggregator to read (Newsfire and NetNewsWire are good). More Information More information can be found at the Scratch website: http://scratch.rubyforge.org The subversion repository lives at: http://dev.elitists.textdriven.com/svn/software/Scratch/trunk (you'll need to login with anonymous/anonymous until I get around to turning that off, sorry). Enjoy -Scott --------------enigFCB5FFAF5822C0612DDC09CB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCJOXBvqYRQQGcpIQRAnWjAKCA9n6YPQhyAvZM2nWAgUzuAYMU3wCeOQxn ZfE/XxyMMcBai2brbx9DS5c0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFCB5FFAF5822C0612DDC09CB--