begin

Why? because some of my colleagues believe code they find on blogs more than the some of the stuff I write, so the solution: publish my own blog. But seriously, also to give some back for the myriad times I've gotten unstuck thanks to some helpful blogger.

Some logistics: I'll expect to be having source code, so some easy way to publish code is needed. I found this: SyntaxHighlighter. Does it work?

class DoesItWork
  def yay!
  end
end

The documentation is a bit unclear, but to get it working using the author's hosted css and js files, you add this to the bottom of the page:

<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/styles/shThemeDefault.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<script language='javascript' src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shCore.js'>
<script language='javascript' src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushRuby.js'>
<script language='javascript' src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushJScript.js'>
<script language='javascript' src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/shBrushXml.js'>
<script language='javascript'>
SyntaxHighlighter.config.bloggerMode = true;
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults.gutter = false;
SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/2.0.320/scripts/clipboard.swf';
SyntaxHighlighter.all();
</script>

I added this to the bottom of the Blogger template, and then simply surrounded the code with

<pre name="code" class="brush:ruby">
class DoesItWork
  def yay!
  end
end
</pre>

The .swf (Adobe/Macromedia Shockwave) is to enable the neat clipboard functionality.