[ippa]

One of the reasons I never started blogged seriously is something like this. It's a very silly reason, I dev alot, I have ideas for blogposts.. but I just never could decide on a platform.

I don't like the idea of a hosted blogplatform, for some of the reasons Kenneth didn't.

I refuse to run Wordpress due to it's security history and upgrade hell. I know, there's security issues with everything.. except for maybe a static site with jekyll or something :). It's just that ages ago I thought that Wordpress was a silver bullet making various sites and I got bitten by it.

I never found a polished ruby/rails blog app. I've searched, maybe not lately. Has this changed?

A static site generator writing blog posts with git never excited me much, I like a kickass RTE.

The idea of doing my own blog comes up now and then but I haven't acted on it yet.

What options are there out there besides PHP? Preferable ruby/sinatra/rails over django.

[smacktoward]

Words written on a crappy platform always beat words not written on a beautiful one. Don't get too hung up on the question of tools, or you'll spend all your time looking at tools and none of it writing.

> A static site generator writing blog posts with git never excited me much, I like a kickass RTE.

Ironically this is a good description of the original "static site generator", Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.com/

It has a dynamic backend (written in Perl, which some people find a turnoff, but unless you're hacking the software itself I can't imagine why) with a nice RTE available for editing, but in its default configuration all its output is simple easy-to-serve static files.

[eropple]

> I refuse to run Wordpress due to it's security history and upgrade hell.

Your call, but IMO this is pretty short-sighted and reliant on outdated information. WordPress has put a lot of effort into application security and has improved considerably over the last few years. The "upgrade hell" days are essentially over; I've upgraded one blog from early 2.x to the current 3.5.2 release without a single broken plugin.

It's much like another PHP project, phpBB; I'd never have used phpBB2 but phpBB3 is a really pleasant tool.

[kenneth_reitz]

Using a service like PagodaBox helps a lot with the security issues. The filesystem for everything but uploads is read-only.

[ronnix]

Why not Heroku in this case?

[viennacoder]

Check out obtvse2 on github. It's got several themes with a clean look.