# Blog!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog/188495>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 12, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog/188495 "2010-05-12T23:02:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sanjanad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@sanjanad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sanjanad)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog/188495/1 "2010-05-12T23:02:26Z")

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hi…i m currently developing a ruby on rails website…i want to have a  
blogging system with my website…are there any good rails plugin for  
tat…or should i do a blog from scratch…i m confused as in how to have  
a blog within my website…

thank you

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**Author:** ![sanjanad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@sanjanad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sanjanad)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blog/188495/2 "2010-05-12T23:15:06Z")

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> hi…i m currently developing a ruby on rails website…i want to have a  
> blogging system with my website…are there any good rails plugin for  
> tat…or should i do a blog from scratch…i m confused as in how to have  
> a blog within my website…

WEll a blog isn’t that hard to make. ryan bates has one here -

> **[Ruby on Rails](https://rubyonrails.org)**
>
> A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

and heres a nice beginners tutorial that i found very helpful that  
teaches u how to make a blog-

> **[Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1 | AkitaOnRails.com](https://www.akitaonrails.com/2007/12/12/rolling-with-rails-2-0-the-first-full-tutorial)**
>
> for brazilians: click here.
> I am very happy to see that my Rails 2.0 Screencast was very well received. More than 1,500 unique visitors watched it...

The scaffold command is already pretty close to blog functionality
