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3/ re "a wiki" - I actually had an insight re wikis the other day. I've wanted to write my own wiki in Rails for over a decade. * separation of concerns of content vs formatting ( Rails "layout") * use of Devise gem for access control * use of other gems * smart embeds
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4/ but the new insight I had yesterday in the shower was that the one thing I hate about wikis is how I can't edit them with emacs. Or, rather, I do - by clicking edit tab, copying all text, pasting into emacs, editing, copying all text, pasting back into browser tab, submit
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5/ and this is a bad pattern smell if I've ever seen one so what we want is a mapping of wiki pages to filesystem ! I've hacked on NFS before (back at Permabit c. 1999 when we "mounted" our crazy decade-ahead-of-the-curve store-by-value cloud data store). So REST + NFS = win
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