A clean minimal gem to add a simple blog to existing app? [closed]

Question

I need an blog inside my existing app but it doesn't have to be fancy, some category's and an way to convert a directory of textiles to the blogposts including date would fit, already searched for this but nothing fancy came up.

any recommendations on a good gem to add blog to existing rails app?

Answer 1

You can roll out your own simple blogging engine for your needs and Rails makes it easy. However, there are a couple of options which work fantastically:

1. Jekyll ( Checkout Jekyll Bootstrap as well)
2. Typo

There are other full blown CMS solutions available:

1. Radiant CMS
2. Refinery CMS
3. Locomotive

Answer 2

I finally ended up with a very simple blog controller that loads some page content from the database, using redcloth to preserve formatting, also use this same method for serving static pages in my app.