Hackin' on Mephisto
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If you’ve been watching this blog disturbingly closely, you may have noticed some improvements on my Mephisto install.
First of all, I fixed the tags from the Typo import by running this snippet in the Rails console:
Article.find_all.each do |a| t = a.tag.gsub(/,(\w)/,', \1') a.tag = t a.save end
By doing this, I was able to fix the tags page to actually allow (get this!) tag-based viewing of articles. As such, tags now appear below each post.
I also added google sitemap support with Stephen Caudill’s plugin, although I did hack around a bit to make it also map the one non-mephisto page on here (daily I consider just trashing it).
I’m just generally happy with Mephisto. Typo was getting kind of bloated and inflexible, and Mephisto just seems a lot easier to hack on. I’m not completely sure that’s due to the system and not my growing famillarity with Rails, but it does wear quite well.