Walter

Walter is a small web app written in ruby and sinatra. The unique purpose is to manage a directory full of quotes and the informations that get along.

It is also like very inspired by toto's architecture.

The name is of course a tribue to Walter Benjamin and his obsession for quotes.

Mini-start in 10 seconds

$ sudo gem install walter
$ git clone git://github.com/taniki/theodor.git webquotes
$ cd webquotes
$ thin start -R config.ru

(configuring passenger is 10 more seconds)

Features

• quotes are stored as text file
  • bibliographical info should be like bibtex specs and formated in yaml
  • body can be formated with markdown (rdiscount)
• templating is done with erb
• URL are not in german just because of guiltiness

Some collectors

• fragments

TODO

• now

  • having fun
  • continue the CSS
  • multi-authors books
  • author view
  • display the year
  • put a proper permalink system
  • different levels of importance

• über-ich

  • check english typographic rules
  • make it easy for multilingual stuffs
  • clean the code

• far, far future

  • Search engine
  • Tags
  • Better bibtex rendering
  • Export formats