Sand Fox (Posts about my projects)

journald-native and journald-logger Transferred to the Foreman

2018-10-10T11:40:00+03:00

Yesterday I moved two of my ruby gems, journald-native and journald-logger, to theforeman GitHub namepace. Developing them further is out of my current professional interest and hopefully the Foreman project will be a good home for them.

It's hard to say farewell however to the most popular library I created so far :D (8 GitHub stars, 57000 downloads)

Embracing CommonMark as the One True Markdown

2016-04-06T02:46:00+03:00

As you may know, CommonMark is a project aiming to create unified and unambiguous Markdown syntax specification. So, I'm in. I want to spread the word and even use it in my own blog.

The trouble number one is that Jekyll uses kramdown by default. So we find a gem and the gem is jekyll-commonmark. Oh hell, we lost syntax highlighting :(

The trouble number two is that CommonMark standard lacks support for server side syntax highlighting. That's bad, I don't want any JavaScript on my static pages. Let's try to wrap it somehow and enable syntax highligting.

The strong side of Ruby CommonMark implementation, CommonMarker is its ability to parse a document to the abstract syntax tree, so let's use it to extract our blocks and highlight them with Rouge for example.

When does journald-native work better?

2016-04-05T01:20:00+03:00

There is already a nice gem called systemd-journal, why another one? Well, because there are some edge cases that it does not cover. I had a trouble with one.