Sword

Pagination combined with page caching really isn’t that easy to do. I had to do all kinds of crazy stuff to make it work, but I got it done anyway. :) If you use these features seperately, Rails is really great and everything is easy, but as soon as you try to combine these features, it soon turns into utter chaos. It took me about two days, but I figured it out (well, I think I did). But anyway, I’ll blog about that in a later post.

So with this last issue resolved and having fixed some bugs, here it is: Sword 1.0beta2.

Last night I added page caching for the public pages of Sword (this weblogging tool; see the Sword project page), only to discover today that I had a few typos in it. That’s what you get when you program in the middle of the night. So I fixed those and here it is. :)

I managed to transform my posts from the prototype I had running at TextDrive and import them into the Sword database. Since the prototype didn’t have slugs for posts, I had to do some manual work. But script/console that comes with Rails was a big help and I managed to add the slugs in about 2 minutes.

The beta version will now be tested in real life and the look and feel will be optimized before 1.0 will come out. This 1.0 version will be the version I deliver as the end-product of my internship at Fingertips.