rodrigotorresweb/blogo

Mountable blog engine for Ruby on Rails

Blogo

Mountable blog engine for Ruby on Rails 4.

Who uses Blogo?

• Brainv2 - online brain tranings
• Travel Or Die
• SwingTradeBot

Quick start

Add the gem to Gemfile of you Rails application:

gem 'blogo'

Install the gem:

bundle install

Install initializer file:

rails generate blogo:install

Take a look into config/initializers/blogo.rb and configure what you need.

Install blogo migrations and run them:

rake blogo:install:migrations
rake db:migrate

Create a user:

rake blogo:create_user[user_name,[email protected],password]

Mount the blog routes to you rails application in config/routes.rb

Blogo::Routes.mount_to(self, at: '/blog')

Run the rails application and go to http://localhost:3000/blog/admin to create you first post!

Go to http://localhost::3000/blog to take a look at your posts.

Troubleshooting

If you use zsh and experience a problem to create a user through the rake task, try to escape [ and ] characters:

rake blogo:create_user\[user_name,[email protected],password\]

More information?

Please see wiki.

Features

• Mountable rails engine
• Image upload
• "Read more" feature
• Tags
• Comments with Disqus
• Atom feed
• Pagination
• Designed to support multiple formats(html, markdown, whatever)
• WYSIWYG editor(for html format)
• Google Analytics
• Social icons (Github, Twitter, can be more if you need it)
• SEO optimized: generates meta description, keywords, meta tags for facebook(OpenGraph) and twitter
• Can be customized for your own needs.
• Very few external dependencies
• Localization support (en, es, pt-BR, zh-CN)

Markup Formats

The next formats are supported out of the box, but don't forget to add necessary dependencies to your Gemfile manually.

Format	Dependency
html	-
markdown	redcarpet

Credits

• Sergey Potapov - creator and maintainer
• Diego Souza - I18n support

License

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.