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data/lib/Javascript.stuff +69 -0
data/lib/helpers-blog.rb +155 -0
data/lib/helpers-repl.rb +201 -0
data/lib/liveblog.rb +825 -0
data/lib/logging.rb +44 -0
data/lib/lowlevel.rb +73 -0
data/lib/pathmagic.rb +14 -0
data/lib/post.rb +211 -0
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data/lib/publish.rb +73 -0
data/lib/repl.rb +597 -0
data/lib/runeblog.rb +773 -0
data/lib/runeblog_version.rb +50 -0
data/lib/view.rb +69 -0
data/runeblog.gemspec +42 -0
data/test/austin.rb +158 -0
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data/test/make_blog.rb +196 -0
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data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pages/pages.rb ADDED

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+# Custom code for 'pages' widget
+# How to update repl code?
+class ::RuneBlog::Widget
+  class Pages
+    Type, Title = "pages", "My Pages"
+    def initialize(repo)
+      @blog = repo
+      @datafile = "list.data"
+      @lines = _get_data(@datafile)
+      @data = @lines.map {|x| x.chomp.split(/, */, 2) }
+    end
+    def build
+      # build child pages
+      children = Dir["*.lt3"] - ["pages.lt3"]
+      children.each do |child|
+        dest = child.sub(/.lt3$/, ".html")
+        preprocess src: child, dst: dest
+      end
+      write_main
+      write_card
+    end
+    def _html_body(file, css = nil)
+      file.puts "<html>"
+      if css
+        file.puts "    <head>"
+        file.puts "        <style>\n#{css}\n          </style>"
+        file.puts "    </head>"
+      end
+      file.puts "  <body>"
+      yield
+      file.puts "  </body>\n</html>"
+    end
+    def write_main
+      css = "body { font-family: verdana }"
+      card_title = Title
+      File.open("#{Type}-main.html", "w") do |f|
+        _html_body(f, css) do
+          f.puts "<h1>#{card_title}</h1><br><hr>"
+          url_ref = nil
+          @data.each do |url, title|
+            url_ref = "href = '#{url}'"
+            css = "color: #8888FF; text-decoration: none; font-size: 21px"
+            f.puts %[<a style="#{css}" #{url_ref}>#{title}</a> <br>]
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+    def write_card
+      tag = Type
+      url = :widgets/tag/tag+"-main.html"
+      card_title = "Pages"  # FIXME
+      cardfile = "#{Type}-card"
+      File.open("#{cardfile}.html", "w") do |f|
+        f.puts <<-EOS
+          <div class="card mb-3">
+            <div class="card-body">
+              <h5 class="card-title">
+                <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="##{tag}">+</button>
+                <a href="javascript: void(0)"
+                   onclick="javascript:open_main('#{url}')"
+                   style="text-decoration: none; color: black">#{card_title}</a>
+              </h5>
+              <div class="collapse" id="#{tag}">
+        EOS
+        @data.each do |url2, title|
+          f.puts "<!-- #{[url2, title].inspect} -->"
+          url3 = :widgets/tag/url2
+          f.puts "<!-- url3 = #{url3.inspect} -->"
+          url_ref = %[href="javascript: void(0)" onclick="javascript:open_main('#{url3}')"]
+          anchor = %[<a #{url_ref}>#{title}</a>]
+          wrapper = %[<li class="list-group-item">#{anchor}</li>]
+          f.puts wrapper
+        end
+        f.puts <<-EOS
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        EOS
+      end
+    end
+    def edit_menu
+    end
+    def refresh
+    end
+  end
+end

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pinned/README ADDED

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1	+ This is for a "standard" Runeblog widget
2	+ Code and docs are a work in progress

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pinned/card.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for sidebar card

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pinned/custom.rb ADDED

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1	+ # This is for specialized livetext add-ons (Ruby methods)

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pinned/main.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for main area page
2	+ body { font-family: verdana }

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/pinned/pinned.rb ADDED

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+# Custom code for 'pinned' widget
+class ::RuneBlog::Widget
+  class Pinned
+    Type, Title = "pinned", "Pinned posts"
+    def initialize(repo)
+      @blog = repo
+      @datafile = "list.data"
+      @lines = _get_data?(@datafile)
+    end
+    def _html_body(file, css = nil)    # FIXME
+      file.puts "<html>"
+      if css
+        file.puts "    <head>"
+        file.puts "        <style>\n#{css}\n          </style>"
+        file.puts "    </head>"
+      end
+      file.puts "  <body>"
+      yield
+      file.puts "  </body>\n</html>"
+    end
+    def build
+      posts = nil
+      Dir.chdir(@blog.root/:posts) { posts = Dir["*"] }
+      hash = {}
+      @links = []
+      @lines.each do |x|
+        num, title = x.chomp.split(" ", 2)
+        hash[num] = title
+        pre = '%04d' % num
+        nslug = posts.grep(/#{pre}-/).first
+        name = nslug[5..-1]
+        link = name+".html"
+        @links << [title, link]
+      end
+      write_main
+      write_card
+    end
+    def write_main
+      tag = Type
+      card_title = Title
+      css = "body { font-family: verdana }"
+      mainfile = "#{tag}-main"
+      File.open("#{mainfile}.html", "w") do |f|
+        _html_body(f, css) do
+          f.puts "<!-- #{@lines.inspect} in #{Dir.pwd} -->"
+          f.puts "<h1>#{card_title}</h1><br><hr>"
+          @links.each do |title, file|
+            title = title.gsub(/\\/, "")  # kludge
+            css = "color: #8888FF; text-decoration: none; font-size: 21px"
+            f.puts %[<a style="#{css}" href="../../#{file}">#{title}</a> <br>]
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+    def write_card
+      tag = Type
+      url = :widgets/tag/tag+"-main.html"
+      card_title = Title
+      cardfile = "#{tag}-card"
+      File.open("#{cardfile}.html", "w") do |f|
+        f.puts <<-EOS
+          <div class="card mb-3">
+            <div class="card-body">
+              <h5 class="card-title">
+                <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="##{tag}">+</button>
+                <a href="javascript: void(0)"
+                   onclick="javascript:open_main('#{url}')"
+                   style="text-decoration: none; color: black"> #{card_title}</a>
+              </h5>
+              <div class="collapse" id="#{tag}">
+        EOS
+        @links.each do |title, file|
+          url2 = file
+          url_ref = %[href="javascript: void(0)" onclick="javascript:open_main('#{url2}')"]
+          anchor = %[<a #{url_ref}>#{title}</a>]
+          wrapper = %[<li class="list-group-item">#{anchor}</li>]
+          f.puts wrapper
+        end
+        f.puts <<-EOS
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        EOS
+      end
+    end
+    def edit_menu
+    end
+    def refresh
+    end
+  end
+end

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/search/README ADDED

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1	+ This is for a "standard" Runeblog widget
2	+ Code and docs are a work in progress

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/search/card.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for sidebar card

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/search/custom.rb ADDED

	@@ -0,0 +1 @@
1	+ # This is for specialized livetext add-ons (Ruby methods)

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/search/main.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for main area page
2	+ body { font-family: verdana }

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/search/search.rb ADDED

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+# Custom code for 'search' widget
+class ::RuneBlog::Widget
+  class Search
+    def initialize(repo)
+      @blog = repo
+    end
+    def build
+    end
+    def edit_menu
+    end
+    def refresh
+    end
+  end
+end

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/sitemap/README ADDED

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1	+ This is for a "standard" Runeblog widget
2	+ Code and docs are a work in progress

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/sitemap/card.css ADDED

	@@ -0,0 +1 @@
1	+ # CSS for sidebar card

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/sitemap/custom.rb ADDED

	@@ -0,0 +1 @@
1	+ # This is for specialized livetext add-ons (Ruby methods)

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/sitemap/main.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for main area page
2	+ body { font-family: verdana }

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/sitemap/sitemap.rb ADDED

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+# Custom code for 'sitemap' widget
+class ::RuneBlog::Widget
+  class Sitemap
+    def initialize(repo)
+      @blog = repo
+    end
+    def build
+    end
+    def edit_menu
+    end
+    def refresh
+    end
+  end
+end

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/OLD-example.lt3 ADDED

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+.mixin liveblog
+.tag_cloud
+https://google.com/,btn btn-dark m-1,Programming
+https://google.com/,btn btn-danger m-1,Science Fiction
+https://google.com/,btn btn-light m-1,Art
+https://google.com/,btn btn-dark m-1,Robotics
+https://google.com/,btn btn-warning m-1,Food and Travel
+https://google.com/,btn btn-light m-1,DIY Hacks
+https://google.com/,btn btn-info m-1,Surfing
+.end

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/README ADDED

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1	+ This is for a "standard" Runeblog widget
2	+ Code and docs are a work in progress

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/card.css ADDED

	@@ -0,0 +1 @@
1	+ # CSS for sidebar card

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/custom.rb ADDED

	@@ -0,0 +1 @@
1	+ # This is for specialized livetext add-ons (Ruby methods)

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/main.css ADDED

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1	+ # CSS for main area page
2	+ body { font-family: verdana }

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/tag-cloud.lt3 ADDED

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+.mixin liveblog
+<h3>Currently nothing here -- not implemented</h3)

data/empty_view/themes/standard/widgets/tag-cloud/tag-cloud.rb ADDED

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+# Custom code for 'tag-cloud' widget
+class ::RuneBlog::Widget
+  class TagCloud
+    def initialize(repo)
+      @blog = repo
+    end
+    def build
+    end
+    def edit_menu
+    end
+    def refresh
+    end
+  end
+end

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+def RuneBlog.teaser_template(title: "No title", date:, view: "test_view",
+                         teaser: "No teaser", body: "No body", slug:)
+<<-TEXT
+<html>
+<body>
+<script>
+  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
+    FB.init({
+      appId      : '1176481582378716',
+      xfbml      : true,
+      version    : 'v2.4'
+    });
+  };
+  (function(d, s, id){
+     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
+     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
+     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
+     js.src = '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js';
+     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
+   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
+</script>
+    <!-- meta property='fb:admins' content='767352779' /> -->
+    <meta property='og:url' content='http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/#{slug}.html'/>
+    <meta property='og:type' content='article'/>
+    <meta property='og:title' content='#{title}'/>
+    <meta property='og:image' content='http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/blog3b.gif'/>
+    <meta property='og:description' content='#{teaser}'/>
+    <table bgcolor=#eeeeee cellspacing=5>
+      <tr>
+        <td valign=top>
+          <br> <font size=+2 color=red>#{title}</font> <br> #{date}
+        </td>
+        <td width=2% bgcolor=red></td>
+        <td valign=top>
+          <a href='https://twitter.com/share'
+          class='twitter-share-button'
+          data-text='#{title}'
+          data-url='#{'url'}'
+          data-via='hal_fulton'
+          data-related='hal_fulton'>Tweet</a>
+             <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
+          <br>
+          <a href='https://twitter.com/hal_fulton' class='twitter-follow-button' data-show-count='false'>Follow @hal_fulton</a>
+          <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
+          <br>
+            <div
+              class='fb-like'
+              data-share='true'
+              data-width='450'
+              data-show-faces='true'>
+            </div>
+          </td>
+       </tr>
+     </table>
+<hr>
+#{body}
+<hr>
+<a href="http://rubyhacker.com/blog2" style="text-decoration: none">Back</a>
+<a href="http://rubyhacker.com" style="text-decoration: none">Home</a>
+TEXT
+end

data/lib/helpers-blog.rb ADDED

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+require 'runeblog_version'
+require 'fileutils'
+require 'processing'
+require 'lowlevel'
+module RuneBlog::Helpers
+  def quit_RubyText
+    return unless defined? RubyText
+    sleep 6
+    RubyText.stop
+    exit
+  end
+  def read_features
+    hash = {}
+    file = @root/self.view/"settings/features.txt"
+    lines = File.readlines(file)
+    lines.each do |line|
+      char, line = line[0], line[1..-1].chomp
+      name = line.strip
+      hash[name] = (char != "-")
+    end
+    @features = hash
+  end
+  def get_repo_config
+    log!(enter: __method__, level: 3)
+    @editor = File.read(".blogs/data/EDITOR").chomp
+    @current_view = File.read(".blogs/data/VIEW").chomp
+    @root = File.read(".blogs/data/ROOT").chomp
+  rescue => err
+    puts "Can't read config: #{err}"
+    puts err.backtrace.join("\n")
+    puts "dir = #{Dir.pwd}"
+  end
+  def copy_data(tag, dest)
+    data  = RuneBlog::Path + "/../data"    # files kept inside gem
+    extra = RuneBlog::Path + "/../config"  # files kept inside gem
+    # FIXME names are confusing
+    case tag
+      when :config
+        files = %w[ROOT VIEW EDITOR universal.lt3 global.lt3]
+        files.each {|file| copy(data + "/" + file, dest) }
+      when :extra  # FIXME remove later
+#        copy!(extra, dest)
+    end
+  end
+  def read_vars(file)
+    log!(enter: __method__, args: [file], level: 3)
+    lines = File.readlines(file).map(&:chomp)
+    hash = {}
+    skip = ["\n", "#", "."]
+    lines.each do |line|
+      line = line.strip
+      next if skip.include?(line[0])
+      key, val = line.split(" ", 2)
+      next if key.nil?
+      hash[key] = hash[key.to_sym] = val
+    end
+    hash
+  rescue => err
+    puts "Can't read vars file '#{file}': #{err}"
+    puts err.backtrace.join("\n")
+    puts "dir = #{Dir.pwd}"
+    stop_RubyText rescue nil
+  end
+  def read_config(file, *syms)
+    log!(enter: __method__, args: [file, *syms], level: 3)
+    lines = File.readlines(file).map(&:chomp)
+    obj = ::OpenStruct.new
+    skip = ["\n", "#", "."]
+    lines.each do |line|
+      next if skip.include?(line[0])
+      key, val = line.split(/: +/, 2)
+      obj.send(key+"=", val)
+    end
+    return obj if syms.empty?
+    vals = []
+    if syms.empty?
+      vals = obj.to_hash.values
+    else
+      syms.each {|sym| vals << obj.send(sym) }
+    end
+    return vals
+  rescue => err
+    puts "Can't read config file '#{file}': #{err}"
+    puts err.backtrace.join("\n")
+    puts "dir = #{Dir.pwd}"
+    stop_RubyText
+  end
+  def try_read_config(file, hash)
+    log!(enter: __method__, args: [file, hash], level: 3)
+    return hash.values unless File.exist?(file)
+    vals = read_config(file, *hash.keys)
+    vals
+  end
+  def write_config(obj, file)
+    log!(enter: __method__, args: [obj, file], level: 2)
+    hash = obj.to_h
+    File.open(file, "w") do |out|
+      hash.each_pair {|key, val| out.puts "#{key}: #{val}" }
+    end
+  end
+  def retrieve_views   # read from filesystem
+    log!(enter: __method__, level: 3)
+    dirs = subdirs("#@root/views/").sort
+    dirs.map {|name| RuneBlog::View.new(name) }
+  end
+  def write_repo_config(root: "#{Dir.pwd}/.blogs", view: nil, editor: "/usr/local/bin/vim")
+    view ||= File.read("#{root}/data/VIEW").chomp rescue "[no view]"
+    File.write(root + "/data/ROOT",   root + "\n")
+    File.write(root + "/data/VIEW",   view.to_s + "\n")
+    File.write(root + "/data/EDITOR", editor + "\n")
+  end
+  def new_sequence
+    log!(enter: __method__, level: 3)
+    dump(0, "data/sequence")
+    version_info = "#{RuneBlog::VERSION}\nBlog created: #{Time.now.to_s}"
+    dump(version_info, "data/VERSION")
+  end
+  def subdirs(dir)
+    log!(enter: __method__, args: [dir], level: 3)
+    dirs = Dir.entries(dir) - %w[. ..]
+    dirs.reject! {|x| ! File.directory?("#@root/views/#{x}") }
+    dirs
+  end
+  def find_draft_slugs
+    log!(enter: __method__, level: 3)
+    files = Dir["#@root/drafts/**"].grep /\d{4}.*.lt3$/
+    flagfile = "#@root/drafts/last_rebuild"
+    last = File.exist?(flagfile) ? File.mtime(flagfile) : (Time.now - 86_400)
+    files.reject! {|f| File.mtime(f) > last }
+    files.map! {|f| File.basename(f) }
+    files = files.sort.reverse
+    debug "fss: #{files.inspect}"
+    files
+  end
+end