Understanding open source blog engines RaccoonBlog & Subtext

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I downloaded two open source blog engines (subtext and RaccoonBlog) but I can't get any documentation for either of them to develop understanding of the code.

Subtext is setup properly on dev machine and I can create new blogs, posts etc. and there is no problem as far as application setup is concerned. The main problem regarding subtext is that I can't understand its routing mechanism and for that I need some documentation.

For RaccoonBlog, I have problem setting it up on my dev machine. When I try to debug the application it throws an exception at IndexCreation.CreateIndexes(typeof(Tags_Count).Assembly, DocumentStore) in DocumentStoreHolder class's initialize method. I believe it has something to do with RavenDb.

I have never worked with RavenDb before.

Silly question, but do you have a RavenDB instance running for the blog to talk to? — Ayende Rahien, Aug 12 '11 at 21:06
In fact i don't have RavenDb setup on local machine. thanks for the reply. i will get back after setting up the db — Muhammad Adeel Zahid, Aug 13 '11 at 04:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '11 at 05:55

There's quite a lot of info here http://code.google.com/p/subtext/w/list. Particularly the request lifecycle page.

You might also find some useful info on Phil Haack's blog http://haacked.com/tags/Subtext/default.aspx

Another engine to through into the mix BlogEngine.Net http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 26 '11 at 10:24

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can't understand its routing mechanism

What is it your trying to do? The routing can be found -

http://code.google.com/p/subtext/source/browse/trunk/src/Subtext.Web/Routes.cs

answered Aug 26 '11 at 10:24

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