Accretion Disc

Accretion Disc ("Acredi") is a lightweight Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) server. I wrote it to run my personal website, because no existing blogging / publishing tool quite did what I wanted. That is to say, Acredi scratches the following itches for me:

• Multiple channels or sub-publications, each independent of the other. What that means is that it's possible to post something in the "Web Development" channel without it appearing on the front page or in the main Atom feed.
• Built-in tagging.
• Simple to manage (and maintain and understand). Acredi is concerned only with displaying content and implementing the server-side of the Atom Protocol. Authoring is handled by some other tool (not that there are many APP clients around at the moment).

The APP implementation is not quite fully complete yet, but it's good enough right now. Feel free to download and play with the code, but I'm not making any official releases at the moment.

To install

• get Darcs if you don't already have it installed.
• set up a new Rails project and freeze to edge revision 5830.
• $ darcs get http://www.benlund.co.uk/project/acredi/
• You'll need this Ruby Atom library and this http_authentication plug-in.

There are some test scripts (in test/misc) that can speak basic client-side APP, which should help you get started. Let me know if you give it a go.