Blogit - A Rails blogging solution

Blogit lets you add a blog to your Ruby on Rails application in just a few seconds.

NOTE: Blogit is currently dormant. I'm interested in spending some time to release version 2.0 for modern Rails environments, but development is going slowly due to very limiting time constraints.. If you're interested in helping to update for version 2.0, please get in touch.

Add these to your Gemfile

gem "blogit"
# Blogit depends on ActsAsTaggableOn
gem "acts-as-taggable-on"

...and run bundle install to install the gem.

Next, run:

# add an initializer to config/initializers with all of the configuration options
$ rails g blogit:install

# This will add the necessary migrations to your app's db/migrate directory
rake blogit:install:migrations

# You don't need to run this again if you've already done so
rake acts_as_taggable_on_engine:install:migrations

# This will run any pending migrations
rake db:migrate

then add the following to your routes.rb file:

# config/routes.rb
mount Blogit::Engine => "/blog"

Finally, declare which of your models acts as blogger in your app (probably User or Admin).

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  blogs

end

Go to http://localhost:3000/blog and see your marvelous new blog.

Blogit provides you with the following features

• An XML Sitemap located at /blog/posts.xml
• An RSS feed located at /blog/posts.rss
• Internationalization (see the locales file for configurable options)
• Share links (Google+, Twitter & Facebook)
• Disquss Comments
• Code Syntax Highlighting CSS file (add *= require pygments to your app's stylesheet)
• CSS themes

We're designing blogit to be as modular as possible, so you can pick and choose the elements you'd like to use.

• For Admin CMS please install blogit-admin

Full documentation and how-to guides available here: https://bodacious.github.io/blogit

If you discover a problem with Blogit, please report it via the Issues tab on Github.

Remember to search the issues list first in case your issue has already been raised by another Githuber

Want to help make Blogit better?. Please read the contribution guidelines for more information on how you can contribute.

See LEGAL for full details.

Blogit was developed by Katana Code with generous contributions from:

• Juan Esparza
• Philou
• Stewart McKee
• Karsten Silkenbäumer

Blogit is currently owned and maintained by @bodacious