{"id":127,"date":"2006-07-05T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2006\/07\/05\/acts-as-blog-plugin\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:16:46","slug":"acts-as-blog-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2006\/07\/05\/acts-as-blog-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts As Blog Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ruby on Rails plugin acts_as_blog does not make your ActiveRecord<\/b> model into a blog… The acts_as_blog plugin helps your model by converting simple text to HTML formatted text. You can use acts_as_blog in blogs, as the name alludes to, or in a wiki-like system. Acts As Blog currently supports text-to-HTML<\/b> formats Textfile<\/a> via the RedCloth gem, Markdown<\/a> via the BlueCloth gem, and SmartyPants<\/a> via the RubyPants gem. You need to install any one, or all, of these gems before you use this plugin.<\/p>\n

\ngem install RedCloth\ngem install BlueCloth\ngem install RubyPants\n<\/pre>\n
To install the plugin just run this script:<\/p>\n
\nscript\/plugin install http:\/\/svn.recentrambles.com\/plugins\/acts_as_blog\n<\/pre>\n
In your model you need to call the acts_as_blog method just like any other ActiveRecord plugin.  For this plugin you will also need to do some additional processing before the model is persisted into the database.<\/p>\n
\nclass Post < ActiveRecord::Base\n  acts_as_blog\n\n  before_save :txt_to_html\n\n  def txt_to_html\n    self.post = Post.convert_to_html(self.raw_post, 'textile')\n  end\nend\n<\/pre>\n
You can switch ‘markdown’ or ‘smartypants’ as the text-to-HTML format in the convert_to_html method by replacing ‘textile’.  Also notice that in the txt_to_html method a field raw_post is converted to HTML and copied to the field post.  If you use code similar to this you will need a raw_post and a post column in your database posts table.  The data in the post column of the posts database will have the HTML formatted text while the raw_post column will keep the original unformatted data.  Using the acts_as_blog plugin in this fashion you will stash the model data and the presentation data in the database.<\/p>\n
You can also use BlueCloth, RedCloth, and\/or RubyPants without using this plugin.  Personally, I would store the raw text in database and only convert it to HTML in the view without using the plugin.<\/p>\n
\n<%= BlueCloth.new(\"### HELLO\\nTECHKNOW\\n\").to_html %>\n<\/pre>\n
I recommend you use a helper function that will do the conversion so that you can switch between the different text-to-HTML formats more easily.<\/p>\n
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The Ruby on Rails plugin acts_as_blog does not make your ActiveRecord model into a blog… The acts_as_blog plugin helps your model by converting simple text to HTML formatted text. You can use acts_as_blog in blogs, as the name alludes to, or in a wiki-like system. Acts As Blog currently supports text-to-HTML formats Textfile via the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}