README

== 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:

== 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