DalenW.com

My personal website. Written and maintained by myself.

I decided to write it myself because I wanted more (and less) features than other blog platforms like Ghost or Wordpress. And rather than deal with making somebody else's solution work for me, I just made my own.

Features

• Posts
  • Basic posts written in Markdown
  • Media support
  • Image galleries
  • Number of views
  • Short links for sharing posts
  • Post tags
  • Post search
  • RSS feed
  • Image Viewer
• Recipes
• URL Shortener
• Media Manager
• Pages

Setup

Credentials:

EDITOR=nano rails credentials:edit --environment development EDITOR=nano rails credentials:edit --environment production

secret_key_base:

s3:
  endpoint: some.service.website
  access_key_id: some_key_id
  secret_access_key: some_access_key
  bucket: bucket_name
  region: us-east

Creating a user

bundle exec rails c

User.create email_address: "email", password: "password"