Recommendations wanted for lightweight, hackable blogging platform

[Marcus Williams]

Jeremy Henty wrote:
> I'd prefer it to be database agnostic and written in Ruby, but neither
> of those is  mandatory.  I have root on my own  virtual host, so there
> are no restrictions on what I can do to install it.  Any tips?

I found the following two great to work with, may or may not do what you 
want out of the box:

Webby
http://github.com/TwP/webby

Jekyll
http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

Both of them seem to have a bit of a following on github so you can pick 
up from where other people have hacked sites together as a lot of people 
publish their webby/jekyll code through github. Both are ruby projects 
and end up generating static content which is nice and fast. Both 
integrate well with a source control system. If you dont want to write 
your own commenting system there are examples of linking up to something 
like Disqus (http://disqus.com ).

HTH

Marcus