{"id":557,"date":"2014-04-06T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2014-04-06T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:44:15","slug":"ive-finally-found-a-rails-4-x-blogging-engine-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/ive-finally-found-a-rails-4-x-blogging-engine-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Finally Found a Rails 4.x Blogging Engine \/ Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe how difficult it’s been to find a good solution for plugging a simple blog into an existing Rails app. I wanted to add a blog to SwingTradeBot<\/a>, the new site I’m building but most answers to this question that I’ve found say to either use RefineryCMS or “roll your own. Well I tried Refinery and quickly ran into gem conflicts galore. As for rolling my own… I don’t have time for that — I’d rather use something that’s been thought through and is well suited to the task. <\/p>\n

I was ready to give up and just roll my own when I found the Monologue gem<\/a>. That looked really promising but then I ran into a Rails 4 compatibility issue<\/a>. However, reading through the discussion thread on that issue I discovered that somebody had created the Blogo gem (plugin \/ engine)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s still early days with this gem but so far, so good for the most part. Installation and set-up went smoothly (in development mode). Here are some things I ran into after pushing to production (on Heroku):<\/p>\n

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  1. There’s a generator to create the admin user (rake blogo:create_user[user_name,user@email.com,password]) – that didn’t work in production. I didn’t find out until after creating the user manually in a Rails console that I needed to prepend ‘RAILS_ENV=production” to the rake command.<\/li>\n
  2. The assets were missing. running “RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile” fixed that.<\/li>\n
  3. Note that for comment to appear you need to be signed up for Disqus<\/a> and you need to enter your site’s short name into the Blogo config.<\/li>\n
  4. There are some configuration options that I had to discover via digging through the code. See below for an example of what I’ve added to my config\/application.rb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here’s what’s in my config\/application.rb:<\/p>\n


    \n Blogo.config.site_title = \"SwingTradeBot Blog\"
    \n Blogo.config.site_subtitle = \"Some clever subtitle...\"
    \n Blogo.config.keywords = 'stock trading, technical analysis, stock scanning'
    \n Blogo.config.disqus_shortname = 'swingtradebot'
    \n Blogo.config.twitter_username = 'swingtradebot'
    \n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I can’t believe how difficult it’s been to find a good solution for plugging a simple blog into an existing Rails app. I wanted to add a blog to SwingTradeBot, the new site I’m building but most answers to this question that I’ve found say to either use RefineryCMS or “roll your own. Well I… Continue reading I’ve Finally Found a Rails 4.x Blogging Engine \/ Gem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[19,20,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":566,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/calculating-standard-deviations-in-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql\/","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":0},"title":"Calculating Standard Deviations in Ruby on Rails (and PostgreSQL)","date":"May 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I need to calculate some Bollinger Bands (BBs) for SwingTradeBot, which is built in Rails 4. Here's a quick definition of Bollinger Bands: Bollinger Bands\u00ae are volatility bands placed above and below a moving average. 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