So, I'm messing around trying to craft a weblog CGI-script using Ruby. I've been very much influenced by blosxom, and by Dave Thomas's work on RubLog ... but I needed a good excuse to play with Ruby, so have started to hack together my own.

Basic features I'm after include:

• Wiki-esque markup
• Easy hyperlinking
• A simple, file-based data-store
• Easy navigation

But rather perversely, I'm not prepared to trust file mtimes to specify posting dates. Instead, I'm going to pull meta-information from the file "header". Sample input looks something like this:

    Subject: entry title
    Date: 13 Apr 2003, 11pm

    Here's the content ...