A very simple sinatra application for taking notes and small snippets. It provides an RSS feed of the notes and has a simple JSON api for creating, retrieving and searching notes. It uses DataMapper to talk to the backend data-store. Also included is 'note_taker', a simple jabber bot which knows how to use the JSON api to talk to notable.
First, you'll be wanting some rubygems. Obviously you'll be wanting sinatra (at least 1.2), but also:
- dm-core
- dm-timestamps
- dm-validations
- dm-aggregates
- dm-sqlite-adapter (Or other DataMapper adapter of your choice)
- dm-migrations
- haml
There is a Gemfile for use with bundler which can be used to install all of these.
You'll also want a rack-aware webserver (I use unicorn, but the webrick which comes with ruby should suit you fine to test). Once you have this, getting started is easy:
cp config.ru.sample config.ru
rackup
notable should now be running on port 9292 on the local host. It should also have created an sqlite3 database in the notable directory, called notes.db. If you want to change the data-store notable connects to, change the DATABASE_URL to any DataMapper understands. To change aspects of how rackup serves the application, check out the options rackup -h gives you.
If you also want to be able to talk to note_taker, the jabber bot, you'll need a few more gems:
- uppercut
- rest-client
- daemons
note_taker takes a variety of options, which can be seen by running note_taker -h. However for convenience one of those options, -C, reads in options from YAML formatted file. There's an example file included in the repo, so:
cp note_taker.yml.sample note_taker.yml
# edit to set a correct JID and password.
# JIDs are formatted as user@example.com/resource
note_taker start -C note_taker.yml
And your jabber bot should start up. If you change the port notable listens on, you'll need to make the corresponding change in the url: (or -u option).
The icons used in notable are from the silk icon set by Mark James. They are made available by him under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
The code for notable is released under the MIT license.
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