Riki Wiki

last modified: September 11, 2003

riki: ruby wiki (a wiki written in ruby) or ruby icky (a ruby rehash of IckyWiki)

when i discovered the ShortestWikiContest, i thought "since RubyLanguage is so cool, i bet it can be used to write a complete wiki in under two hours and less than fifty lines". riki is the result. it may not the kind of code you'd want running a RealWiki, but it does implement AutomaticLinkGeneration, ContentEditableByAll, BackLinks, and most TextFormattingRules.

there is lots of room for improvement here (perhaps most importantly: complete TextFormattingRules as well as RecentChanges) which i may get to in time. or perhaps you, dear reader, will fill them in for me down below.


$ cat riki.rb | wc
        40     146    1850
$ cat riki.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'cgi' # riki.rb ShortestWikiContest submission by BrandtKurowski
if ENV['PATH_INFO'] !~ /^\/(\w+)\/(\w+)$/
  puts "Location: riki.cgi/view/HomePage\n\n" and exit
end
operation, page, text = $1, $2, CGI.new['t'].shift
data = File.exist?('../riki/data') ?
  File.open('../riki/data') do |file| Marshal.load(file) end : Hash.new('')
if text
  data[page] = text
  File.open('../riki/data','w') do |file| Marshal.dump(data, file) end
end
puts "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html><head><title>"
case operation
when 'edit'
  puts %Q{#{page},</title><body><form action="../view/#{page}," method="post">
    <h1>#{page},</h1><textarea rows="10" name="t">#{data[page]},</textarea>
    <hr><input type="submit" value="Save"></form></body></html>},
when 'search'
  list = data.reject {|name, text| text !~ page},.keys.collect { |name|
    %Q{<li><a href="../view/#{name},">#{name},</a>}, },
  puts %Q{Search for #{page},</title><body><h1>Search Results</h1><hr>
    Searching for <em>#{page},</em><ul>#{list},</ul><hr></body></html>},
else
  [ ['&','&amp;'], ['<','&lt;'], ['>','&gt;'], [/(\r?\n){2},/, '<p>\\&' ],
    [/(.*?)/, '<strong>\\1</strong>' ],
    [/(.*?)/, '<em>\\1</em>' ], [/^----/, '<hr>'],
    [/http:\/\/\S*/, '<a href="\\&">\\&</a>' ],
  ].each do |wiki, html| data[page].gsub!(wiki, html) end
  nil while data[page].gsub!(/^(\t*)\t([^\t]*?)$/, "<ul>\n\\1<li>\\2</ul>")
  nil while data[page].gsub!(/<\/ul>\s*<ul>/, '')
  data[page].gsub!(/(<li>\s*)+/, '<li>')
  data[page].gsub!(/([A-Z][a-z]+){2,},/) do |name|
    data.has_key?(name) ? %Q{<a href="../view/#{name},">#{name},</a>}, :
                 %Q{#{name},<a href="../edit/#{name},">?</a>},
  end
  puts %Q{#{page},</title><body><h1><a href="../search/#{page},">#{page},</a>
    </h1><hr>#{data[page]},<hr><a href="../edit/#{page},">Edit #{page},</a>
    </body></html>},
end

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