# Example of Wordpress for main site, Rails app in subdomain?

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**Created:** [July 14, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/example-of-wordpress-for-main-site-rails-app-in-subdomain/191566 "2010-07-14T16:09:17Z")\
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Can anybody point me to an example of a website that uses wordpress as  
the main content management and a rails app within a subdomain?

[www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) would be a wordpress installation.  
[subdomain.domain.com](http://subdomain.domain.com) would be a rails application.

I’m thinking of using the rails app to handle all forms and dynamic  
views of data, etc.

I have a rails app that looks horrible (I’m not a designer) and I’m  
hoping that incorporating wordpress will allow me to easily leverage a  
free wordpress theme and re-use the CSS in my rails app so that it  
feels like one big application…

I’m aware of being able to put wordpress within the /public/blog  
directory, but I just need a CMS with several static pages, it’s not  
actually a blog that is frequently updated.

Thanks for any ideas!