🦆 Goose - A Simple and Lightweight Text Blog

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Overview

Goose is a simple and lightweight text-style blog application that only uses three tables to store blog data. It's built on top of Ruby on Rails and SQLite 3. Goose has a beautiful admin interface and markdown support, it's very easy to use, it's a good choice for a personal blog.

Preview

Blog home	Article detail

Admin & Editor	Admin settings

Features

RSS

Get your blog rss feed by https://your-domain/feed

Quick start

Docker

docker pull gooseblog/gooseblog:v0.1.1

docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -e SECRET_KEY_BASE=happy-goose-blog -e RAILS_LOG_TO_STDOUT=1 gooseblog/gooseblog:v0.1.1

Docker Compose

Create a docker-compose.yml file in your server workspace then run command docker compose up -d

version: "3"

services:
  goose:
    image: gooseblog/gooseblog:v0.1.1
    ports:
      - "80:3000"
    environment:
      SECRET_KEY_BASE: "happy-goose-blog"
      RAILS_LOG_TO_STDOUT: "1"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/usr/src/goose/data

Environment variables

In order to safely to run Goose, ensure is set the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment value.

Name	Description	Default
SECRET_KEY_BASE	Secret key base for rails	NULL
RAILS_LOG_TO_STDOUT	Log to stdout	NULL

Live Demo 🔥

Admin Interface

username: admin
password: adminadmin

The Logo

Goose logo from Icons8

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