# What Blog Engine Is Best?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367 "2008-10-07T20:07:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abel)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367/1 "2008-10-07T20:07:13Z")

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I have a running Rails Application and now I want to append a blog to  
it.

I’ve been researching on the matter and decided to try three engines  
that I thought were the most popular: Typo, Simple Log and Comatose,  
but with each of them I find problems trying to install them: Typo  
seems to have a dependency on the SQLite3 gem, Simple log isn’t a  
plugin you can “plug” to your app, but an independent application by  
itself and Comatose seems to have some problems with Rails 2.

I was wondering wich blog engine is the most popular in the group, one  
that’s easy to install and works as a plug in.

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**Author:** ![Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abel)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367/2 "2008-10-07T20:38:21Z")

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Mephisto works for me - [http://mephistoblog.com/](http://mephistoblog.com/)

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Abel [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I was wondering wich blog engine is the most popular in the group, one  
> that’s easy to install and works as a plug in.
> 
> >

–  
Cheers!

- Pratik  
[http://m.onkey.org](http://m.onkey.org)

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**Author:** ![Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abel)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367/3 "2008-10-07T23:56:14Z")

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Thanks Pratik. Looks good!

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**Author:** ![Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Abel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abel)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-blog-engine-is-best/150367/4 "2008-10-08T01:34:03Z")

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I’ve tried typo and mephisto. Mephisto lacked some features and was  
too inactive for my liking. Typo has a few problems I don’t like, but  
overall I prefer it over mephisto.