Squib (weblog)

Infobox programming language
name = Squib
year = 2005
designer = Matt Mower
developer = Matt Mower
latest_release_version = 0.5
latest_release_date = 2006
implementations = Ruby
influenced_by = Ruby (programming language)
operating_system = Cross-platform
license = [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php Open Source Initiative OSI - The MIT License:Licensing]
website = [http://squib.rubyforge.org/ http://squib.rubyforge.org/]

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

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 [ [http://www.mattmower.org/ About Squib] ] . Since then it has gone through several partial rewrites as the Rails feature set developed [ [http://squib.rubyforge.org/ Squib] ] .

Requirements

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

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.

References

External links

* [http://squib.rubyforge.org/ Squib home page]
* [http://www.mattmower.org/ Matt Mower home page]
* [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php Open Source Initiative OSI - The MIT License:Licensing]