Combining Word Press with a Rails App using nginx proxy_pass

January 15, 2013

Despite our love for Ruby we sometimes find ourselves with clients who want to keep their Wordpress blog in conjunction with their shiny new Rails app. The most obvious way to do this is to run it on a different subdomain (blog.domain.com), but this presents an SEO problem because your blog which is often one of the most useful tools for attracting people is now on a different domain.

The Solution:

Combining Word Press with a Rails App using nginx proxy_pass

Pygments.rb

October 30, 2012

Here is some useful code for syntax highlighting. Borrowed from Ryan Bates

module ApplicationHelper
  class HTMLwithPygments < Redcarpet::Render::HTML
    def block_code(code, language)
      sha = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(code)
      Rails.cache.fetch ["code", language, sha].join('-') do
        Pygments.highlight(code, lexer: language)
      end
    end
  end

  def markdown(text)