Solid tutorial for building a simple wiki application in Ruby on Rails?

Question

I've searched and I've found a lot that are antiquated.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You looked at these? http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials

None of them are "solid"?

Answer 2

Maybe looking at working examples might help you as well. I do not know wiki tutorial for rails, but know about these wiki solutions, written on the top of rails and without rails, but written in ruby:

• irwi is a complete wiki plugin for Ruby on Rails
• instiki - another wiki running on rails
• riki wiki - this is fun: it was written in ruby for the shortest wiki contest, it is not documented, but the code might explain itself

Answer 3

maybe you want to take a look at the instiki sourcecode: http://github.com/parasew/instiki - there is lots of code you can reuse. have fun!

Answer 4

You can easily create a wiki with zena (a rails CMS):

1. You create an empty application with
   zena wiki

2. You initialize an empty database
   cd wiki; rake zena:init RAILS_ENV=production

3. You set the publish, write and read groups of a node to "public" (use the wrench tool, "drive" tab)

4. You change the anonymous user's status from "moderated" to "user" (user management by clicking on the "Admin User" link)

And you have a wiki with multilingual support (if you need it) and the usual versioning, diff tools and image management.