My experience with blogs says they will quickly turn into their own application and then you either have to mess with integration between the two systems, or yo

My experience with blogs says they will quickly turn into their own application and then you either have to mess with integration between the two systems, or you build the application on top of the blog. Each come with plusses and minuses, but in the latter case, if you start with something like Rails, then at least you have Rails at your disposal for the growing application. Though if it is really never going to become more than just a blog, I choose static files with a simple compilation procedure, personally.