Blog engine for Rails application

Question

I have a Ruby on Rails application, and now I would like to add blog into it. Just a simple blog with basic features and single author. What are the possible solutions?

1. I need to use my authorization system (I used authlogic for my app)
2. Since I am developing for a customer, I need MIT/BSD licence.
3. I would prefer lightweight solution.

I know about Radiant, even build a static website with it. But it seems to complex for a simple blog.

I know about adva_cms. But as developers say it is a pain to use my own authorization system.

I also know that google is my best friend, but I am just curious what do you use in your apps when you need to integrate a blog into it?

Answer 1

There's typo and mephisto, which are typically blog applications.

But they won't integrate with your authlogic easily.
If what you want is really simple, maybe doing something simple (using acts as markup for posts formatting for example) is the quickest solution.

Answer 2

Since I fell in love with enki and it is GPL project, I am going to do the following - just create another blog application, that will use the same db as my primary one. Thus,

• my existing users will be able to comment on a post without further registration.
• And I will not use GPL code in my app.

Why I didn't think about it earlier?

Answer 3

Hello I am now developing a totally new Ruby On Rails blog engine. It is called RBlog. http://github.com/igor-alexandrov/rblog it is it's GitHub page.

Now it is under heavy development and, i think that really usable public version 0.3 will be ready in February.