Creating a Blog in an Existing Ruby on Rails app

Question

I am interested in adding a blog to my Ruby on Rails app. I do not want to waste my time coding up a bloggin app in rails - I can do it but I just prefer something more robust.

I have investigated Wordpress and it seems like one of the best bloggin platforms out there. My question is how would I get Wordpress integrated into my site? I would preferably like to use my existing rails layouts and CSS. Is this type of thing even possible.

My site is http://www.arenpatel.com/ and as an end result I would like to have the same Rails generated sidebar (Twitter feed) on the blog.

Maybe there is a Rails alternative to Wordpress?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You can integrate a jekyll style blog with markdown files for blog posts very easily using the rails engine Postmarkdown.

Edit: Updated URL.