Getting started

[why the lucky stiff]

Ben Giddings wrote:

> Here are some issues I had starting up which are probably ones others 
> have seen and should probably be either fixed, or become FAQs:

Whoa.  You've done a wonderful thing!  I'm going to the Can I?? 
<http://hobix.com/about/02.cani.html>

> Q: Ok, I did that but when I tried to do "hobix regen blogname" it 
> gave me an error.  What gives?
> A: Oh, well hobix needs at least one entry.  Create one with "hobix 
> post blogname entryname"

This is going away.  Zero entries is okay.

> Q: Great!  Now the only entry is mine.  But... hrm... the links all 
> try to go to bokononist.hobix.com.  That's not my site!
> A: Aha, you're making progress, but now you need to fix hobix.yaml in 
> the base of your blog directory.  Change the "link: " line so it's 
> right for your site.

This is becoming a question that is asked on setup.

> Q: Ok, well I changed apache, but now I get a message "[an error 
> occurred while processing this directive]" when I try to use my blog.  
> I guess that's where the sidebar should be.
> A: Right, you're probably using a URL with a path on it.  Right now 
> there's a "lib/local.rb" file that assumes you don't have a path. 
> There's no really clean fix for that now.

Good catch, thankyou.

> Q: Ok, I see how that works, or should work.  Only for me, ri Hobix 
> says "The LinkList class is an entry type for storing links...".  and 
> ri Hobix::Entry says: "More than one class or module matched your 
> request. You can refine your search by asking for information on one of:
>
>      Hobix::EntryEnum, Hobix::Entry"
> A: [sound of crickets]

This is a problem with 'ri'.  Perhaps I should rename EntryEnum in the 
meantime.

> Q: Oh yeah, and if I wanted to use a redrum thing, how would I do that?
> A: [sound of crickets]

A: Well, if you want to create a sidebar using Textile + ERB (rather 
than HTML + ERB), you can just add a `sidebar.html.redrum'.  Here's the 
Redrum template used on Hobix.com:

  h2. *about

  <% about_entries.each do |about| %>
  "<%= about.title.downcase %>":<%= about.link %><% end %>

  h2. *learn
  <% learn_entries.each do |learn| %>
  "<%= learn.title.downcase %>":<%= learn.link %><% end %>

  h2. *based<br />*on

  "ruby":http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
  "yaml":http://yaml.kwiki.org/?YamlInFiveMinutes
  "textile":/textile/

  h2. *i am

  "_why":http://whytheluckystiff.net/


>
> Q: Hmm...  Ok, well I'll come back later.

A: Please do.  Thanks, Ben!

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