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by David Heinemeier Hansson.
Original Post: Instiki: There's no step three!
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Admitted, it's Yet Another Wiki Clone, but with a strong focus on simplicity of installation and running:
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Run "instiki.rb 2505"
Chuckle... "There's no step three!" (TM)
You're now running a perfectly suitable wiki on port 2505 that'll present you with a textarea for the home page on entering. No web-server or database to configure. All you need is Ruby 1.8.x.
Instiki lowers the barriers of interest for when you might consider
using a wiki. It's so simple to get running that you'll find yourself
using it for anything—taking notes, brainstorming, organizing a
gathering.
Instiki reserves a separate WikiSpace for each port number, so
you can run more than one wiki by keeping them on separate ports.
It also means that you can't access the same wiki on another port
than the one you started it on (unless you move the directory in storage).
Features:
Regular expression search: Find deep stuff really fast
Reference tracker: Which other pages are pointing to the current?
Speed: Using Madelein for persistence (all pages are in memory)
Access control (there's not even an explicit user concept)
File attachments
History:
0.2.5: Upgraded to RedCloth 2.0.2 and Madeleine 0.6.1, which means the Windows problems are gone. Also fixed a problem with wikiwords that used part of other wikiwords.
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