Squib is a free, open source, weblog publishing application available under the liberal MIT Licence. Squib is written in the Ruby

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

 programming language and uses the Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

 web framework.

History

Squib was written by Matt Mower in 2005. Squib was written as a replacement for his blogging package Radio Userland

Radio UserLand

Radio UserLand is a software package from UserLand Software, first released in 2000, which includes not only a client-side blogging tool but also an RSS aggregator, an outliner and a scripting language.-Features:...

 and an urge to learn Rails

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

. Since then it has gone through several partial rewrites as the Rails feature set developed .

Releases

Squib 0.3.6 was released on Dec 20th 2005. There was a 0.4 branch intended to support multiple weblogs that was eventually abandoned. Squib 0.5 is the current stable release and was released in 2006 containing a few fixes and improvements to the 0.3 release.

External links

• Squib home page
• Matt Mower home page
• Open Source Initiative OSI - The MIT License:Licensing