Squib (weblog)

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Squib
Appeared in 2005
Designed by Matt Mower
Developer Matt Mower
Latest release 0.5/ 2006
Major implementations Ruby
Influenced by Ruby (programming language)
OS Cross-platform
License Open Source Initiative OSI - The MIT License:Licensing
Website http://squib.rubyforge.org/

Squib is a free, open source, weblog publishing application available under the liberal MIT Licence. Squib is written in Ruby (programming language) and uses the Ruby on Rails web framework.

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[edit] History

Squib was written by Matt Mower in 2005. Squib was written as a replacement for his blogging package Radio Userland and an urge to learn rails [1]. Since then it has gone through several partial rewrites as the Rails feature set developed [2].

[edit] Requirements

  • Ruby 1.8.4+
  • RubyGems 0.8+
  • Rails 1.2.3
  • MySQL

[edit] Releases

Squib 0.3.6 was released on Dec 20th 2005. There was a 0.4 branch intended to support multiple weblogs that was eventually abandoned. Squib 0.5 is the current stable release and was released in 2006 containing a few fixes and improvements to the 0.3 release.

[edit] References

  1. ^ About Squib
  2. ^ Squib

[edit] External links

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