I have an existing rails application/website that I want to add a blog to. I would like to access it by www.existingapplication.com/blog so I was thinking it would need to be some kind of plugin or engine or something. Does something like this exist? The main thing is that it can't be a standalone rails application, it has to be an addon to an existing app.
A:
Why not just use Tumblr or similar, and redirect (or proxy) requests to /blog to it? If you're willing to use blog.application.com, you can even just set up a cname and be done with it. Blogging is a very solved problem at this point, and it makes little sense to staple one onto your application at the code level.
Chris Heald
2010-10-04 00:17:14
That might work. Currently hosting at heroku. Would this still be possible?
NotDan
2010-10-04 00:24:44
Yeah, certainly. Setting up a cname is done with your DNS management; it'll just alias blog.yourdomain.com to whatever your Tumblr blog is.
Chris Heald
2010-10-04 10:43:11
A:
If you run it on a subdomain (blog.existingapplication.com/) it is even easier to setup and will definitely be doable through Heroku.
Toby Hede
2010-10-04 01:20:38