RETTER - Flyweight diary workflow.

手軽さを追求した記事作成ツール。

CLIでの操作を前提としています
どこ（cwd）にいてもすぐに記事をMarkdownで編集できます
オフラインで簡単にプレビューできます
だいたいどこでも動作します（Heroku, GitHub Pages, Dropbox などで、静的HTMLまたはRackアプリとして）
RSSフィードを吐きます
トラックバック、コメントなどの機能は外部のサービスを使う必要があります
コールバックを設定することでさらに手数を減らすことができます

Quick Start

ruby-1.9.2 or later is required.

Install:

  gem install retter

Generate a new site:

  $ retter new my_sweet_diary

Quick settings:

  $ export EDITOR=vim
  $ export RETTER_HOME=`pwd`/my_sweet_diary

Writing article:

  $ retter

retter opens $EDITOR. Write an article with Markdown.

Preview:

  $ retter preview

preview opens the draft article by your default browser.

Generate HTML:

  $ retter rebind

bind and rebind binds the draft article. And re-generates actual html web pages. All html pages will be overwritten.

Browse offline:

  $ retter open

open sub-command opens your (static) website by your default browser.

Show Articles list:

  $ retter list
  [e0] 2011-11-09
    my sweet article title

Re-writing an article:

  $ retter edit e0
  ... abbr ...
  $ retter preview e0

How to Deploy

examle:

  $ cd $RETTER_HOME
  $ git add .
  $ git commit -m 'Entry written'
  $ git push [your_git_remote] master

To publish, use the git command. Or, upload the file to your server.

Environment variables

Important

retter requires $EDITOR variable.

$RETTER_HOME

You can use retter command anywhere, If you set $RETTER_HOME variable.

  $ echo "export RETTER_HOME=/path/to/my_sweet_diary" >> ~/.bash_profile
  $ . ~/.bash_profile

You have to cd to the directory, If you don't set $RETTER_HOME variable.

  $ cd path/to/my_sweet_diary
  $ retter

Using shortcuts

  $ retter commit # Shortcut of `git add . ; git commit -m 'Retter commit'`
  $ retter home   # Open a new shell at $RETTER_HOME
  (retter) git push [remote] [branch] # heroku, github pages, etc..

Command options

Date is specify-able in edit preview sub-command.

  $ retter edit 20110101    # edit
  $ retter preview 20110101 # preview

Relative date is available too.

  $ retter edit yesterday
  $ retter edit today
  $ retter edit tommorow

  $ retter edit '3 days ago'
  $ retter edit 3.days.ago
  $ retter edit 3.days.since
  $ retter edit 1.week.ago
  $ retter edit 3.weeks.ago
  $ retter edit 3.months.ago
  $ retter edit 3.years.ago

And file name.

  $ retter edit today.md
  $ retter edit 20110101.md
  $ retter preview 20110101.md

Callbacks

Some command (edit bind rebind commit) will call callback if you defined callbacks.

In Retterfile:

  after [command], [invoke command or proc]

Example1: Auto preview

In Retterfile:

  after :edit do
    ident = ARGV.pop || 'today'
    preview ident if yes?("Preview now? [yes/no]")
  end

Example2: Auto deploying

In Retterfile:

  after :rebind, :commit # git commit

  after :commit do       # deploy
    system "cd #{config.retter_home}"
    system 'git push origin master'
  end

Skipping callback

--silent option skips those callback.

Run callback

callback sub-command runs only callback proccess.

  $ retter callback --after edit

Install DISQUS (Comment tool)

Prepare

Create DISQUS Account
Add new site for retter

Install

First, Add your disqus_shortname to Retterfile.

in Retterfile

disqus_shortname 'your_disqus_shortname'

Second, Edit templete and paste render_disqus_comment_form.

in layouts/article.html.haml

-# abbrev
#comments= render_disqus_comment_form
-# abbrev

Code Highlight

Pygments is available. To use, add a following line to Retterfile.

renderer Retter::Renderers::PygmentsRenderer

Remove caches

When change the renderer, you have to remove cache files.

  $ retter clean

Built-in themes

Retter has some themes. You can switch the theme by replacing stylesheet.

Default

    %link{href: '/stylesheets/default.css', media: 'screen', rel: 'stylesheet', type: 'text/css'}

Default

Orange

    %link{href: '/stylesheets/orange.css', media: 'screen', rel: 'stylesheet', type: 'text/css'}

Orange

HTML Layout

To customize layout, edit following files.

layouts
  |-- article.html.haml # Article page
  |-- entries.html.haml # Entries list page
  |-- entry.html.haml   # Entry (by day) page
  |-- index.html.haml   # Front page
  |-- profile.html.haml # Profile page
  `-- retter.html.haml  # Basic layout

Skipping page binding

You can skip following pages bind.

profile.html
entries.html
feed.rss

If you want, add allow_binding configuration to Retterfile.

# skip all pages
allow_binding :none

# allow only entries.html and feed.html
allow_binding [:entries, :feed]

Other template engines

If you want change the template engine, remove existing template and create new template (e.g. retter.html.haml to retter.html.erb).

LICENSE

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.