Blogr

A Rails engine for adding blogging to any Rails 4 application.

This project is unmaintained

Some code from pixelbits/simpleblog.

Blogr is a framework for your blog with an admin. You are required to create the blog frontend.

For a working & in production preview, see Rails Tuts. The source of the site is on GitHub.

To install

1. Add blogr to your Gemfile & run bundle install

   gem "blogr"

2. Run the setup generator to add blogr to routes.rb and to add some config files

   rails g blogr:setup
   

3. Run the database migrations and

   rake db:migrate blogr:setup
   

4. Insert into your db/seeds.rb file command Blogr::Engine.load_seed and create a Blogr user

rake db:seed

5. Run the server and open localhost:3000/blogr to see the Blogr interface.

rails s

Importing Posts

I am currently working on some importing tools for importing posts from other blogging platforms.

WordPress

This imports categories and posts from your WordPress blog.

• Login to your WordPress blog, go to Tools > Export and download the XML file
• Open up the Rails console - rails console
• Run the importer

Blogr::Import.wordpress("path-to-your-export.xml")

Ghost

This imports categories and posts from your Ghost blog.

• Login to your Ghost blog, add debug to the end of the URL and click Export
• Open up the Rails console - rails console
• Run the importer

Blogr::Import.ghost("path-to-your-export.json")