I Normalized

I was just working on my music site (I.. rock you know ;) ) and used the code of this great greasemonkey script. I did needed to adjust it properly (strip stuff out) so here it is ready to use. Small but usefull

I was just browsing Geoffrey Grosenbach’s wonderful nubyonrails and that “Manufactured with” in the left bottom corner got me interested.

It’s nothing new of course for someone to post info regarding implementation aspects such as tools used on a site. But I wonder if there such thing somewhere somehow centralized…? Sounds like a new pet project.

Their tutorial section covers it here but for the sake of dry-ness use this. It contains mephisto 0.73 with the proper rails version frozen in it and all the annoying details figured out (shebangs, htaccess etc) for working with HostingRails fastCGI setup.

Upload, unrar, update database.yml, rake, symlink, restart.

Notice for some reason rake db:bootstrap crashes so you gotta run the tasks manually.

rake db:bootstrap:load RAILS_ENV=production

rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=production

rake tmp:create

Ok I just found something out which I didn’t like. Namely, you can’t use non ASCII characters in Mephisto url’s. More specifically, you cant post comments when using unicode in the permalink. :(

You know about OpenID right? Simon Menke wrote a plugin for delegating in mephisto. However, on my installation it didn’t quite work so I hardcoded like another Simon says .

You pretty much insert into head the following (with your own data of course)

See also, OpenID on Rails.