# Best blogging app?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-blogging-app/127324>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 28, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-blogging-app/127324 "2008-01-28T09:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-blogging-app/127324/1 "2008-01-28T09:01:41Z")

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I know this is a dumb question, but I am about to start a blog and  
wanted to know the best app to do this that is done in rails. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-blogging-app/127324/2 "2008-01-28T17:14:37Z")

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I’d recommend Mephisto, with some hesitation. There hasn’t been a  
release in more than a year, but you can access the trunk which has  
had a lot of updates applied. But it does work well, and there are a  
lot of people using it, and I’m hopeful that a new release will be  
coming before long.

The other widely used blog engine is Typo, which I haven’t used  
personally. At one point it seemed that it had fallen out of favor,  
relative to Mephisto, but now that Mephisto has gone so long without  
an update there is some renewed interest in Typo.

Another option is Radiant, which is a CMS rather than a blog engine,  
but you can use it to build a blog with plugins that support  
commenting.

Michael  
[www.BuildingWebApps.com](http://www.BuildingWebApps.com)

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