EVIL

Author: Dan Webb ([email protected])

Evil is going to be a quick and easy tool for bringing together data from all over the web into a cunning little website. It’s going to be easy to set up, easy to extend with plugins using any web API and be a good citzen in the Ruby web dev world by being a standard Rack app that you can deploy with Passenger, on Heroku or whatever you feel like. Hopefully it’ll be mountable as part of a Rails or Merb app.

To create an Evil site:

sudo gem install evil

evil init {your_app_root}
evil whitelist {your_openid}

Then point Passenger at it, send it up to Heruko or run it on your grandad’s ZX Spectrum then go to /admin and get going.

Planned features

Caching via Rack::Cache
Plugin architecture that makes it easy to interact with web APIs (probably based on HTTParty)
Simple OpenID whitelist for access to the admin interface