Hi.<br><br>I see lots of discussion about this month LRUG topic and beginner's session, but this is not related to these topics at all. Hope you do not mind.<br><br>I am thinking about setting up my own blog using Ruby/Rails based blog system, and would like to ask opinions.
<br><br>I did a bit of google research and looks Typo and Mephisto are the two popular Rails based blog systems. I installed both Typo and Mephisto, and<br>Typo (<a href="http://trac.typosphere.org/">http://trac.typosphere.org/
</a> ) seems to have more features than Mephisto (<a href="http://mephistoblog.com/">http://mephistoblog.com/</a>), but Typo seems heavier and more complex, and I found a blog about how someone converted from Typo to Mephisto (
<a href="http://blog.codefront.net/2006/9/1/from-typo-to-mephisto">http://blog.codefront.net/2006/9/1/from-typo-to-mephisto</a>). I like Typo's dynamic preview functionality(You can see how your HTML looks like as you type), but I also like Mephisto's pretty url functionality.
<br><br>I've seen some posts about people using Mephisto, so would appreciate if I can hear opinions (and also some alternative Rails based blog systems you recommend. I tried Radiant and Rubrick CMS, but they seem to be too generic for my personal blog use).
<br>I also would like to know if typo and Mephisto are matured enough compared to other well known blog systems, such as Wordpress and Movable type.<br><br>FYI, the below URLs are the most comprehensive lists of Rails based CMS/blog system references.
<br>*<a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS">http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS</a><br>*<a href="http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/08/28/top-20-ruby-on-rails-content-management-systems-cms">
http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/08/28/top-20-ruby-on-rails-content-management-systems-cms</a><br>The below URL is generic info about CMS/Blog systems.<br>*<a href="http://www.cmsmatrix.org/">http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
</a><br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Makoto<br><br><br>