The Problem

I have a rails application an want to add a blog engine to it. In this case the blogit engine. Things are working well until the layout is rendered. It uses the parent applications layout, which is what I want, but because it’s an isolated engine, it doesn’t have access to any of the parent applications helpers, including url helpers…

A list of mountable blog engines for Rails.

Blogit

Blogit Engine

Blogit is a flexible blogging solution for Rails apps. It:

• Is Rack based;
• Is a complete MVC solution based on Rails engines;
• Aims to work right out of the box but remain fully customisable…

A basic sitemap generator for building a sitemap on the fly. I’d like a better way, but since it’s hosted on heroku and the map isn’t too big yet, this should work for now.

Add a route to handle building the XML

# /app/controllers/static_controller.rb


      

In many cases it might be easier/better to just use LocalTunnel.

In this case, I didn’t want the external URL changing all the time, and I already have a Linode server setup that I can use. Here are some notes on setting it up…