A new look for bawdo.com - soon

Around 5 years ago I wrote www.bawdo.com in PHP, this week I rewrote the site using Ruby on Rails. I have one more thing to do before I make it go live, and that is to migrate old posts over to the new site. Maybe tomorrow :-)



Here is a sneak preview. There are some missing elements such as a way to contact me from the site, my Mystery Tour page, and 150_002 Linux which is so old now it should probably be taken down.



The iPhone version of the site can currently display comments, but I have not hacked up the required form to add a new comment. Leave that for another day.

Ruby syntax highlighting within websvn

I'm assuming you are using GNU Enscript for syntax highlighting with your websvn install.

It seems that enscript does not come with a ruby syntax highlighting rules file by default.So the first thing to do is find one. This one works for me:

http://support.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/support/ruby.st?ref=darwinports.com

Now copy this into your enscript highlight rules directory. e.g.

cp ./ruby.st /usr/share/enscript/hl/

OPTIONAL: Test if highlighting is working or not:

enscript --color --language=html -Eruby --output=hello_ruby.html ./hello_world.rb

Now for the websvn side of things:

First off edit the websvn setup.php file and add rb and erb extensions to the $extEnscript array

e.g.
vim /usr/share/websvn/include/setup.php
# SNIP - find the extEnscript array
$extEnscript = array
# SNIP - and add these two
'.rb' => 'ruby',
'.erb' => 'ruby',
# SNIP

Next, edit websvn's config.inc file. e.g.

vim /etc/websvn/config.inc
# SNIP - search for extEnscript and add the following two lines.
$extEnscript[".rb"] = "ruby";
$extEnscript[".erb"] = "ruby";

This should be enough to get ruby syntax highlighting working. You can also edit your enscript.st to include naming and start rules for ruby if you'd like. e.g.

vim /usr/share/enscript/hl/enscript.st
# SNIP - Search for namerules and add the following:
/\.(rb|erb)$/ ruby;
# SNIP - Search for startrules and add the following:
/-\*- [Rr][Uu][Bb][Yy] -\*-/ ruby;