Summary
Xiki is short for "Executable Wiki". It has wiki syntaxes for executing things, like shell commands, code (in various languages), sql, and even general-purpose menus you can define. Xiki runs mostly as a text editor plugin.
Links
Xiki has wiki syntaxes for
Examples
> A heading
- A bullet point
$ ls -l
$ ls -l
| -rw-r--r-- root wheel 2k May 22 2012 passwd
| -rw-r--r-- root wheel 1k May 22 2012 group
$ my-other-shell-command
| Results are inserted underneath when you
| double-click (or type control-enter) on the command.
| Then you can double-click again to collapse the output.
/tmp/
/tmp/my-other-diretory/
- my-file.txt
/tmp/my-other-diretory/
- my-file.txt
| Contents of
| the file.
/tmp/my-other-diretory/
$ ls
| file-in-this-dir.txt
| and-another.txt
select * from users
select * from users/
| id name description
| 1 Sam Wears sunglasses
| 2 Steve Edit rows and double-click to save back to the db
puts 1 + 2 # Double-click on this ruby code to run it
puts 1 + 2 # Double-click on this ruby code to run it
3
html/
| Double-click on one of these lines
| to show this html in the browser
css/
| h1 { color: red; }
| body {
| font-family: arial;
| font-size: 15px;
| }
js/alert('hi') // Double-click to run this javascript in your browser
dom/
- body/
- h1/
| Explore and edit the DOM of the current
| page in your browser
- div/
r/User.first
r/User.first
| --- !ruby/object:User
| attributes:
| id: 1
| name: Steve
| details: Runs code in rails apps.
| more: You can edit ActiveRecord models and double-click again to save.
couchdb/
- my_db/
- id_of_a_document/
| name: Steve
| description: Edit and double-click to save
- my_other_db/
bootstrap/
> Heading
This will be rendered in the browser as a bootstrap layout.
bootstrap/
> Heading
This will be have
(blank line)
> Another Heading
Two sections
bootstrap/
> Heading
This will be have
> Another Heading
Two columns, because blank line omitted
rails/
+ start/
- generate/
+ app/
- model/house/
> Example fields
| name:string
| details:text
| price:decimal
| purchased_at:datetime
| user:references
+ resource/
+ controller/
Xiki has menus for
Misc Features
Supported Editors
Invitation from the Author
Ruby Conf 2012 Xiki talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqOrQN0bxNE