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The first thing you might wonder is “why is the blog running on WordPress when the site is running on Rails?” Initially, we spent some time investigating Ruby/Rails-based blogging solutions. The one that fit our needs most closely was Typo, a lean but comprehensive Rails blogging solution. We had some difficulty getting it to run alongside the core site and documentation on installing the software in non-trivial cases was, to say the least, sparse. As well, the AJAX interface was somewhat buggy, especially the sidebar editor. Dissatisfied, I proposed that we try out WordPress and designed the theme that you see here.

It took some doing, but I’ve got both Apache and Mongrel running happily side-by-side. There might be some small tweaks I can make here and there but so far the configuration is running quite smoothly. It would probably be better to serve everything through Apache via FastCGI but we’re serving from a Windows box at the moment and the community consensus on Apache/FastCGI/Ruby integration in Windows seems to be “don’t do it.”

WordPress has been absolutely amazing. The technology is mature, the community is very active and helpful, the software is extremely well documented, and the user interface is both pretty and intuitive. I feel like we couldn’t have made a better choice.

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