README

Bling 0.1.0 README

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This file was last updated on Mon Feb 21 20:05:07 2005. Please see the file COPYING for licensing and warranty information.

Overview

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Bling is a weblog ping module for Ruby (ruby-lang.org/).

Installation

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The easiest way to install Bling is to use the Ruby Gem. If you’ve got RubyGems (rubygems.rubyforge.org/) installed, do the following:

  # install the Bling gem (you'll need to run this as root, or via sudo)
  gem install bling --remote

If you don’t have (or don’t use) RubyGems, you can install Bling by copying it somewhere in your Ruby load path. For a list of load paths on your platform, run the following command:

  ruby -e '$LOAD_PATH'

For most architectures, you’ll probably want to put the file "bling.rb" in your site_ruby directory. To do that, try something like this:

  ruby -rfileutils -e 'FileUtils::cp "bling.rb", $LOAD_PATH[0]'

Using Bling

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You can use Bling either as a Ruby module, or directly from the command-line. For more information, please see the RDoc-generated documentation for Bling in the doc/ directory.

Weblog Ping Servers

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There are fairly comprehensive lists of weblog ping servers at the following URLs:

  http://www.ensight.org/archives/2004/11/21/services-to-ping/
  http://www.problogger.net/archives/2004/11/22/services-to-ping-when-you-update-your-blog/

Unless you know what you’re doing, you’re probably better off sticking with the default, which is ‘rpc.pingomatic.com/’.

About the Author

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Paul Duncan <pabs@pablotron.org> pablotron.org/