Blux

Blux is an offline blog manager that lets you manage your blog posts offline and publish them to any blog engine that supports AtomPub.

install

gem install Blux

That's it!

configuration

Blux reads its configuration info from ~/.bluxrc. The first time you run blux, it will create this file for you, but will immediately complain about missing configuration items. Use the following configuration example for a Wordpress blog and edit each line as needed:

editor: vim

blog: myWordpressBlog
author_name: Mr. Author
user_name: my_user_id
password: my_password

editor: this is the shell command that will be executed to launch your editor of choice

blog: this is your Wordpress blog ID

author_name: the name of the author

user_name: your Wordpress user name that Blux will use to publish your posts

password: your Wordpress password

Blux from command line

Blux is a command line tool that currently operates without a GUI of any sort. Here are a few of the commands you can use:

$ blux -n (--new)

this command launches your text editor. As soon as you quit the editor, it will create a draft in the Blux draft folder in ~/.blux/draft

$ blux -s (--set) --latest title "a title"

this command sets a title on the latest created draft

$ blux -s -f draft1.23 title "a title"

the -f option can be used to tell Blux to operate on a specific draft by use the draft's filename (without the path)

$ blux -s --title "old title" title "new title"

use --title