A while back, I finally decided that I needed my own presence on the web. Something that had a nice layout and not the plain black & white sites I’d had in the past. Already having put together part of a site built in Ruby on Rails, I didn’t want to start over, though WordPress is basically a “Web Site in a Can.” So what I did was integrate WordPress with my Rails site. Wow was this easy. Not nearly as painful as it was trying to integrate Typo with a Ruby on Rails site, as I had tried a few months back.
Since my site is hosted on Dreamhost, I just had to create a new MySQL database and complete the one click install. The only “gotcha” was having to set up the .htaccess file in the blog root directory. Previously with Typo, I was stuck integrating two Ruby on Rails applications in one web root, mucking with .htaccess files and Rewrites, and that didn’t even include getting the blog posts easily accessible from the root web application. Hey, maybe I just didn’t take enough time to figure it out, but I figure these things should be easy!
WordPress and Rails integration was no big deal at all!