tags: Rails
2007
July
- 2007 Jul 25
- migrating from wordpress to typo 4.1.1 (trunk) on dreamhost
This is just a quick outline of the steps I took, which I hope to fill in as time goes on.
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August
- 2007 Aug 2
- getting mephisto (trunk) to work on dreamhost
I found all of this rather confusing, since I’m pretty sure I downloaded the same version of Mephisto to my local machine as well as to my Dreamhost account. But I got things running on my local machine with no problem, but had to struggle for a couple of days to get it to work on Dreamhost (with Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 1.2.3 as of this writing.)
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 14
- back to the beginning
Mephisto broke for some reason. It may have been the plugin that I was experimenting with. But even when I took it out again, it stayed broken. I kept getting the dreaded 500 error. So I did a clean re-install. The blog itself is now still accessible (although I moved it to chaosanddisorder.net.) But I can’t get into the admin page.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 25
- rails grief/bot hammering
Not sure this made any difference, but I reverted down to r7357 for Edge Rails because r7358 kept running into MySQL out of memory errors.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 28
- migrating from mephisto to simplelog
So I managed to teach myself how to use Rails a little, mainly, how to utilize the magic that is ActiveRecord (which unfortunately probably took me at least 48 hours of sustained effort spread out over the last six days.) ActiveRecord makes me almost forget that I'm dealing with a SQL database. I don't have know any arcane syntax. I just have to know Ruby, which is an extremely Zen-like thing to know. (I know it's a stereotype, but, damn, you've got to hand it to the Japanese.) OK, I'm oversimplifying. I haven't really gotten the hang of join tables, but its nothing that convoluted kludgery can't get around.
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October
- 2007 Oct 27
- rails vs php
I don’t know why, but suddenly I had the urge to try yet another blog engine, even though I haven’t really hacked into SimpleLog’s internals and given customization a chance, which was the whole point of using it.
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December
- 2007 Dec 19
- scattered thoughts on code complexity and natural language
Steve Yegge's rants about programming are always really interesting. I'm all about the big picture, and I like how he can properly abstract his arguments so that it makes sense to a non-specialist. Very few technically competent people (whatever the field) are actually able to do this, and if they could, it would certainly make cross-discipline interaction a lot easier.
· Read more… - 2007 Dec 22
- switching back from simplelog to mephisto
In case you didn't notice, I also switched my blog engine again. Now that Rails 2.0 is out, I thought I'd give Mephisto (from
· Read more…svn) another spin, and it seems to be working relatively well, much better than when I last tried it, although I still get the occasional 500 error. - 2007 Dec 27
- Dreamhost, htaccess, and routes.rb
I have never been able to get my
· Read more….htaccessfile to properly redirect requests from different blog engines. For example, Simplelog tacks on either/archives/or/past/to its URLs, and Typo tacks on/articles/to its posts. That's one of the things I like about Mephisto: it doesn't add what I feel are superfluous tokens to the URLs. (Although I am still trying to figure out how to get rid of/archives/from the monthly posts.) - 2007 Dec 28
- simplelog to mephisto
migrating from Simplelog to Mephisto
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 1
- separate spheres
If things had gone differently, I might've actually become a computer programmer. Although it's questionable as to whether I would've survived such a decision.
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- how PHP is destroying Rails
From Zed Shaw's rant as to why the Ruby on Rails community sucks:
· Read more… - 2008 Jan 21
- technical difficulties (mephisto failed to start properly)
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.)
· Read more… - 2008 Jan 21
- giving up on rails on dreamhost
Since I'm only averaging about 500 hits per day, shared hosting should theoretically be sufficient for my purposes. Alas, Mephisto continually dies on Dreamhost, and since I couldn't get my kludgery to work (mostly because I can't seem to install the
· Read more…mysqlgem on my local setup), I gave up completely and found a host that actually supports Rails. - 2008 Jan 23
- mephisto, rmagick, and hostingrails
Got bit in the ass with this bug when I migrated Mephisto to another host. Looks like you have to explicitly define what imaging package you have in
· Read more…config/initializers/custom.rb.:nonewill definitely work, but so far:rmagickhasn't caused Mephisto to crap out either, although I have yet to upload an image. I don't really have any experience with:imagescience.
April
- 2008 Apr 25
- fixed
While I had stay at work all night until the morning, I really didn't do much besides get Mephisto up and running again. This all started because I got sick of the Scribbish theme (which is, nonetheless, a great theme—I dig the hAtom support). I tried to install the Clarity-Orange theme but because Safari irritatingly always decompresses files, I ended up with a folder instead of zip file.
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July
- 2008 Jul 13
- and yet another change
Trying to decide on a Rails-based blog engine/CMS. I wish permalinks were easier to customize
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2015
August
- 2015 Aug 31
- Migrations
So I've been slowly going through all my blog posts lately, converting them to YAML+Markdown to use with Jekyll
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October
- 2015 Oct 24
- Old Projects Still on Github
I am kind of amazed that some old blog engines that I used to use still have code up on GitHub.
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