About Snippy

Snippy is an open source clone of Josh Goebel’s Pastie.

A lot of Pastie users (including me) wanted a private version. Snippy fills that void – enjoy.

Author

It was written by Flinn Mueller using Ruby on Rails 2.1 as a weekend project. I felt like one of the best features of Pastie is code highlighting so I made it a priority. Code highlighting is accomplished using a custom renderer with Ultraviolet. The Thinking Sphinx plugin has been on my radar for a little while now so I felt like it was a good time to throw that in.

On Github

Git has also been on my radar for a little while. So I figured I would host the project at Github - everyone wins. Get the source on Github.

Install

  1. git clone git@github.com:actsasflinn/snippy.git
  2. cd snippy
  3. cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
  4. sudo apt-get install libonig2 libonig-dev
  5. rake gems:install
  6. rake db:create
  7. rake db:migrate
  8. rake bootstrap
  9. rake thinking_sphinx:configure
  10. rake thinking_sphinx:index
  11. rake thinking_sphinx:start
  12. ./script/server
  13. Start Snipping