So, OK. CodeRay was more than a match for me. I just don’t understand enough about CSS, and that’s the fact. So, luckily I stumbled on a nice alternative, which isn’t quite as attractive, but will most certainly do the job for now. Syntaxhighlighter is a very simple set of Javascript and CSS files that, combined, do a nice job of applying syntax highlighting, with minimal fuss and muss.
Simply add the .js and ....
So, onward and upward. I decided, ultimately, against using Akismet, and instead went for another similar service called Defensio, which was, ultimately, quite easy to implement.
So in the unlikely event someone is actually visiting, please do try leaving a comment and see how it works. If you leave something Viagra-related, it should reject the post. One hopes.
So, now I’m down to CodeRay, which may be a bit of a challenge since it requires some CSS work. (I th...
Added several new features yesterday, which was shockingly easy.
Adding Textile support was a breeze with the RedCloth gem for Ruby. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it’s way easier than writing a lot of HTML code, that’s for sure. I am still working on getting CodeRay up and working. It looks like that won’t be terribly hard, though.
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