== Sinandra Sinandra is a very simple blog engine built with Sinatra and a Cassandra backend. Why another blog engine? Sinantra was written in order to learn Cassandra and understand Cassandra's data model. == Installation Make sure you install Cassandra. To get started with Cassandra: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted You also have to have sinatra installed: sudo gem install sinatra == Requirements The following gems are required and need to be installed: sudo gem install actionpack cassandra simple-uuid maruku sanitize == Cassandra Configuration A sample Cassandra configuration is included: sample-cassandra-conf.yml. The important part is the following keyspace: <Keyspaces> <Keyspace Name="sinandra"> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="BytesType" Name="Authors"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="UTF8Type" Name="Lists"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="TimeUUIDType" Name="Archives"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="BytesType" Name="BlogEntries"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="TimeUUIDType" Name="TaggedPosts"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="TimeUUIDType" Name="Comments" CompareSubcolumnsWith="BytesType" ColumnType="Super"/> </Keyspace> </Keyspaces> == Sinandra Configuration You can configure Sinandra using a file called config.yml. Using this config file, you can set: * the title of your blog * The author of the blog (only supports a single author) * The about paragraph displayed on the right-side column * the username of the person allowed to post blog entries * the password of the person allowed to post blog entries A sample configuration file is included: sample-config.yml. If you do not include a config.yml file, the following defaults are used: * blog title = 'a simple blog' * blog author = 'Tyrone Badu' * about paragraph = 'Lorem ipsum...' * username = 'admin' * password = 'super' == Running Sinandra To run sinandra, simply use: ruby sinandra.rb Then point your browser to : http://localhost:4567/ == Screencast You can download a small screencast which runs through the features of sinandra here. Nothing very exciting but it lets you see it in action without downloading/running it: http://lucpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/SinandraDemo.avi == Recommended Links on Cassandra * https://github.com/dambalah/sinandra * http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/ * http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model * http://www.parleys.com/#id=1866&st=5&sl=1