I am really liking this new web set up. Several weeks ago I made the comment that I was going to integrate my blog, forum, and main page using Ruby on Rails stating that if I fail I fail. Well, I conveniently failed and I was happy to so. I was pointed to Onepress by Rick Overman via a Garage Games post and I immediately decided that this was the way to go.

I had looked at Wordpress several times and really wanted to go this route, and I had looked at several pieces of forum software. My biggest gripe was zero integration and two logins for one site. Onepress seems to have done the trick, and I got my site up and running in two days time (based on hours, not days).

Honestly, it would have been more than a months worth of free time finishing the site I had started in Rails. On top of that, I had already had to fix the site a few times and it is currently down again, yet my php applications are running just fine. So really, Ruby on Rails is a great framework, but it seems to be a little too high maintenance for an independent. And really, it is hard to beat the robust nature of an apache server.

So yes, I failed, I learned something from it, and I saved myself a lot of time.