Borg :: The Battlehorse ORGanizer

Borg is a ruby on rails application I have written to manage this website. It is a basic CMS that offers various functionalities, listed below.

Borg is open source! Fork in on github.com.

• wiki with easy markup (textile) and internal links,
• page metadata,
• blog, with smart blog dates parsing and presentation,
• tagging (now you can navigate through them and group them in clouds, see here ! ),
• mobile devices and tablets support new in v3.0,
• breadcrumbs,
• Social features (Google Buzz, Facebook and Twitter sharing) new in v3.0,
• hierarchical sidebars and toolbars,
• no database required. Flat files to store both contents, comments, attachments and metadata,
• user comments with captchas and gravatars (more info here ),
• Google analytics integration (more info here ),
• Google Talk chatback integration (more info here),
• Google Translate integration improved in v3.0,
• Authentication framework based upon OpenID (more info here ) with support for login using Google Accounts,
• Editing directly from the website and authorizations management,
• Support for draft pages new in v3.1,
• Multiple graphic templates: Coolwater, InternetSharing, bigG, kennedy (thanks to Styleshout and Solucija ). Adding a new template is easy as creating a new CSS file. ‘kennedy’ is new in v3.2,

Complete list of new features in version 3.2

• new kennedy template.

Complete list of new features in version 3.1

• codebase updated to support ruby 1.9.2 , rails 3.0.7
• improved readability: switched to Open Sans font, 1.5 line height
• New feature: pages and articles can be marked as draft until they’re ready for release.
• New feature: support for the humans.txt ‘standard’
• Improved rendering for smartphones (image scaling fixes) and tablets.
• New feature: added an option to disable the sidebar on article pages.
• New feature: it is now possible to specify a content license (that will be displayed in the site footer)
• Various bugfixes in themes, social sharing buttons, live preview features and other areas.

Complete list of new features in version 3.0

• A new theme you can choose from: bigG, inspired by the look’n’feel of Google documentation websites,
• Full support for high-end mobile devices (iPhone, Android phones like the Nexus One),
• Social features (Google Buzz, Facebook and Twitter sharing),
• Attachments and file upload support, including basic file management features,
• Live preview when editing articles online,
• Better integration with Google services such as site translation and supporting OpenId logins using your Google Account credentials,
• Automatic Sitemap generation for better indexing,

And among the technical improvements:

• Support for the latest serving stack: Rails 3.0.3 + Ruby 1.9.2, including Bundler for gem management,
• Async Google analytics code for improved performance,
• Support for serving attachments from a static domain (possibly directly of Apache or Nginx), instead of relying on Rails, for improved performance,
• Improved handling of error pages,
• Custom Ragel state machine for improved parsing of articles text.
• … and several other improvements under the hood for performance and reliability.

Download and Contributions

The whole Borg project sources and documentation is available at the Borg Project Site at Github.com .

You can also find more information on the project page inside the Ruby Application Archive .

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