== 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

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