Jekyll admin interface for rails applications

[Zach Karpinski]

I've been using Jekyll for some projects at work and it is very good.
My coworkers are a little put off by editing text files (we were using
Wordpress). Being sympathetic to their pleas, I created Jekyll
Admin. It started out as some hacking in the back end of our site. I
realized what I created could be extended so that it understands
Jekyll and (hopefully) does a good job of handling any/all custom
fields that might be in a post template. I cleaned up a lot of code
and tried to break it a lot. At this point I think it is worth
sharing. I've deployed it to my personal blog and it seems to be
working OK.

Jekyll Admin includes a jquery plugin called jHtmlArea to provide an
Wysiwyg editor. It can be removed by deleting the script at the
bottom of the _form.html.erb partial in app/views/jekyll_admin/

It is currently on GitHub: http://github.com/zkarpinski/Jekyll-Admin

Currently it only supports HTML markup and I don't have support for
categories in the YAML front matter. These two things are my next
steps.

[Nick Quaranto]

Nice, I wasn't aware people had made Rails adapters for Jekyll. Personally I wouldn't use this, since I use jekyll since I like keeping my text in git and vim. However, I can see how this would help. I would drop it into a new section here:

http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/deployment

And maybe show some screenshots in your readme. :)

-Nick

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[Zach Karpinski]

I have put two links to screenshots in the readme. I had them in the
github wiki page for Jekyll Admin but that sort of buried them.

Updates to the deployment wiki for Jekyll also edited. Thanks and I
hope others find it useful if they want to maintain Jekyll inside a
Rails app.

On Mar 17, 2:31 pm, Nick Quaranto <n...@quaran.to> wrote:
> Nice, I wasn't aware people had made Rails adapters for Jekyll. Personally I
> wouldn't use this, since I use jekyll since I like keeping my text in git
> and vim. However, I can see how this would help. I would drop it into a new
> section here:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/deployment
>
> And maybe show some screenshots in your readme. :)
>
> -Nick
>

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Zach Karpinski <zkarpin...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've been using Jekyll for some projects at work and it is very good.
> > My coworkers are a little put off by editing text files (we were using
> > Wordpress).  Being sympathetic to their pleas, I created Jekyll
> > Admin.  It started out as some hacking in the back end of our site.  I
> > realized what I created could be extended so that it understands
> > Jekyll and (hopefully) does a good job of handling any/all custom
> > fields that might be in a post template.  I cleaned up a lot of code
> > and tried to break it a lot.  At this point I think it is worth
> > sharing.  I've deployed it to my personal blog and it seems to be
> > working OK.
>
> > Jekyll Admin includes a jquery plugin called jHtmlArea to provide an
> > Wysiwyg editor.  It can be removed by deleting the script at the
> > bottom of the _form.html.erb partial in app/views/jekyll_admin/
>
> > It is currently on GitHub:http://github.com/zkarpinski/Jekyll-Admin
>
> > Currently it only supports HTML markup and I don't have support for
> > categories in the YAML front matter.  These two things are my next
> > steps.
>
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