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Reuben
Reuben

Reputation: 109

Ruby Based Blogging Engine

What Rack enabled blogging engines exist? I want to deploy a free blog to heroku and need more customizabilty than the free hosting of Wordpress.com or Blogerty provide.

Also in another note, has anyone tried to port Wordpress to Ruby?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5932

Answers (6)

bontoJR
bontoJR

Reputation: 7055

I recently created a platform called Stipes.

It's based on Sinatra and it is very light in terms of required resources.

I installed it on a Raspberry PI recently, for internal, single-user, usage and it works very well. I'm still working on it and any support is welcomed.

Upvotes: 1

Waiting for Dev...
Waiting for Dev...

Reputation: 13037

In any special order:

== Rack based

== Jekyll based

== Rails based

  • typo one of the oldest in active, with more features but more complex
  • enki for hackers, basic code
  • simplelog just main features
  • mephisto not developed anymore
  • radiant generic CMS

== Rails engines

== Integrate jekyll with Rails

Upvotes: 12

Jared
Jared

Reputation: 2457

If you're a fan of git, you might try Jekyll. It is a static site generator which allows you to do some templating. You don't need a database which makes running it on Heroku even easier.

Upvotes: 3

Dreamr OKelly
Dreamr OKelly

Reputation: 3622

If you want a nice, hackable pure ruby & rack blog: RubySlippers

It used git to manage versioning of your posts and publishing as well. It is built to get a free blog going on heroku in record time!

~end shameless plug

Upvotes: 1

pantulis
pantulis

Reputation: 1705

If you are not into installing a fully fledged blogging engine, Bloggity may fit your needs, in fact you can use to add a blog to whatever app you may have.

Upvotes: 0

ry.
ry.

Reputation: 8055

It's been awhile since I looked into this, but I believe the two major Ruby blog applications are still Mephisto and Typo. They've both been around awhile and appear to still be maintained.

As Heroku has a read-only file system, you may need to do some tweaking to get them to work. Here's a blog post on getting Typo running on Heroku.

You may also want to take a look at Radiant, which is more of a traditional CMS system, but can be used for blogging. There's actually a tutorial on the Heroku blog about getting it up and running on their platform.

Finally, if you want something a bit more lightweight but with full CSS control you may want to take a look at Scanty. It might require you go get your hands dirty, but seems to run great on Heroku. In fact, it's written by one of the founders.

Upvotes: 2

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