So I can’t seem to log-in to my blog currently. What I ended up doing was trying something that may have untoward side-effects. (Which reminds me, I should probably backup my database.)

What my local setup is: Mac Mini 1.25 GHz PPC (G4) with 1 GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I’m using the pre-installed version of Ruby (1.8.2) I then installed Mongrel (1.1.3)

1. Checkout a fresh new copy of mephisto trunk (currently revision 3091 at this writing) to my hard drive: <pre>svn co http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk mephisto</pre>

2. Freeze Rails to current release (2.0.2 at this writing) <pre>rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-2</pre>

3. Edit database.yml so that it matches my blog database on Dreamhost.

4. Start mongrel: <pre>mongrel_rails start -d -e production -B</pre>

5. Login at http://localhost:3000/admin

6. Blog away.

7. Cross my fingers that it doesn’t nuke my database, and that Mephisto is actually working on the remote side.