# Trackback support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 6, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859 "2007-03-06T13:47:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kturner)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859/1 "2007-03-06T13:47:52Z")

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Hi,

Are there any libraries/plugins to add trackback support to a blog? I’m  
having trouble searching, because when you include the phrase  
‘trackback’ in a google search, it returns millions of hits, because  
every blog mentions it.

Thanks,  
Kevin

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**Author:** ![kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kturner)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859/2 "2007-03-06T17:39:44Z")

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Kevin T. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Are there any libraries/plugins to add trackback support to a blog? I’m  
> having trouble searching, because when you include the phrase  
> ‘trackback’ in a google search, it returns millions of hits, because  
> every blog mentions it.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Kevin

A weblog tool called Sword seems to have support.

See the trackback\_create method here:

[https://fngtps.com/projects/sword/browser/trunk/app/controllers/post\_controller.rb](https://fngtps.com/projects/sword/browser/trunk/app/controllers/post_controller.rb)

Not exactly a plugin, but maybe a hint.

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**Author:** ![kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kturner)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859/3 "2009-04-05T00:41:01Z")

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bringing this back up because after searching google and this forum i’ve  
been unable to find anything useful.

Does something like this exist? or does anyone know of any projects out  
there i could check the code?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kturner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kturner)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trackback-support/87859/4 "2009-04-05T01:07:01Z")

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On 4-Apr-09, at 6:41 PM, Mm Zz wrote:

> bringing this back up because after searching google and this forum  
> i’ve  
> been unable to find anything useful.
> 
> Does something like this exist? or does anyone know of any projects  
> out  
> there i could check the code?

something like this?

[http://theadmin.org/articles/2007/12/4/mephisto-trackback-library](http://theadmin.org/articles/2007/12/4/mephisto-trackback-library)

found with this query;

[http://www.google.ca/search?q=rails+mephisto+trackbac](http://www.google.ca/search?q=rails+mephisto+trackbac)

Jodi