Since I don’t use Windows as my server OS anymore, I was looking for a replacement of FlexWiki, which is a wiki written in ASP.NET. Since I want to learn some Ruby, I looked around for a wiki written in Ruby. Hiki is what I have found. It’s very simple to install, the website even gives instructions on how to enable Ruby pages in Apache. But I already did that (the CGI and the mod_ruby way).
For now there’s only the standard FrontPage (in Japanese), but I will gradually fill it with real (English) content.
Hiki does not use a database, but flatfiles instead. That explains the easy installation: download, unpack, modify data-path in the config file, run. Hiki is a try-out for now. My previous wiki suffered from a lot of spam. The open nature of a wiki allowed to modify pages anonymously, and so spammers used it to put links to their sites (with all sorts of NSFW content). If hiki can’t be protected enough, and spammers find their way to it, I will shut it down or replace it with something more secure (and perhaps not Ruby).
Update: just enable the plugin “edit_user.rb” and you can create users and disable anonymous edits. So I did.