Writing a Rails blog that supports Blogger API?

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Part of the current project that I'm working on is a blog, and one of the things I'd like to do is be able to post to the blog from other applications, using a common interface.

Right now I use the program Windows Live Writer, which supports Livejournal, Blogger, WordPress, and other blogging systems, to do all my blog posting. I write the post in Live Writer, then I can send it to my LJ, my Blogger blog, or WordPress blogs that I'm a part of it, in just a few clicks.

I'd like to be able to add my Rails blog to that list. What would be the best way to go about that?

I don't have any experience with MetaWeblog API, beyond hearing the name. Would I want to look into that? If not that, what would be the best option?

Thanks! Jeff

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I was looking sor something like it a few days ago, i found this page but I have not had time to read it. There are MetaWeblog apis written for RoR. Maybe it helps to solve your problem... Oh, the link: Revision 17936: /rails/trunk/actionwebservice/examples/metaWeblog

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Chapter 6 of 'Practical Rails Social Networking Sites' by Alan Bradburne implements a blogging engine with a subset of the Blogger API. You might find that useful.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200390323&sr=1-1

Regards

Walter