Mephisto— We're not slacking!

We're not slacking!

Posted by rick on September 10 2006 at 02:03 PM

Though the blog is quiet, the SVN commit log isn’t. Here are a couple things we’ve been working on.

Better comment validation and error messages [contributed by Geoff Davis]
Working Metaweblog API [contributed by Corey Donohoe and Patrick Lenz]. It’s still experimental, but retrieving and saving posts works fine.
Completely rewritten Dispatcher. This was the oldest bit of code in Mephisto, and it has been completely refactored away. Sections now have their own archive areas available at /section_path/archives/yyyy/mm. Permalinks can now have completely custom URLs without modifying the Rails routes.

Update: I completely forgot about the new Liquid include support that Geoff Davis added. Create a template named _foo.liquid in the design area (or themes/site-#{n}/templates), and use this to include it: {% include 'foo' %}.

It looks like Mephisto: Noh-Varr is shaping up to be a solid release.

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What other people had to say

Tanc 09 10 2006 02:40 PM
Great, how do I access the Metaweblog API? What is the RPC URL to point my client at? I'm using MarsEdit on OS X. Thanks.
Jon Maddox 09 10 2006 02:42 PM
Awesome. I was just about to check out trunk to see what has been going on. Is Noh-Varr still concentrating on the CMSy aspects of Mephisto?
sly 09 10 2006 02:47 PM
I updated my trunk, but now I cannot delete comments or edit the settings or add user accounts and when I do add accounts it says successfully added but they don't show up.
Patrick Lenz 09 10 2006 02:49 PM
@Tanc: The backend URL is http://yourblogurl.com/xmlrpc
namxam 09 10 2006 03:03 PM
Good to hear that you are working on an API. This will help a lot, as there are some nice publishing tools - especially helpful if you travel a lot and you do not have access to the net all the time.
rick 09 10 2006 03:15 PM
sly -- Yeah, there are still some bugs being worked out. A number of changes occurred on the backend, especially with the way user accounts work. I'll be adding tests and fixing the bugs as the release draws closer.
Tanc 09 10 2006 03:57 PM
@Patrick Lenz: Thanks, I'll check it out. I noticed that sections set to "Sections with multiple pages" don't seem to work after my latest SVN update (about 8 hours ago - maybe you fixed it since then).
rick 09 10 2006 10:05 PM
Sly: Please post to the mailing list if you're still having problems. I think I've fixed those issues now.
Coda Hale 09 10 2006 11:14 PM
Noh-Varr? The dude that got brainwashed by post-Fury S.H.I.E.L.D. and is now hunting down the Young Avengers/Runaways teamup? I dunno, Rick.
rick 09 10 2006 11:29 PM
I know! That ish reminded me of the old Marvel Boy tpb I have in my closet somewhere. I was afraid it was retconned or something.
sly 09 10 2006 11:56 PM
never could get into comics, but anyways rick do you plan on making a theme picker. Like for example if you upload a theme it will show a link and once you click the link it enables that theme.
rick 09 11 2006 02:05 AM
Yup, just waiting on Justin to do the design for it.
sly 09 11 2006 02:49 PM
Kool, I updated my trunk so I could get the checkbox for admin permissions, but when I try to update my database I get this "This verison of RMagick was created to run with ImageMagick 6.2.8 but ImageMagick 6.2.9 is installed on this system."
rick 09 11 2006 03:04 PM
So... update rmagick?
sly 09 11 2006 03:23 PM
Yeah i wish it were that easy, but i don't know what rmagick is or how to update it. Plus it says my system is running imagemagick 6.2.9 and it requires 6.2.8, so to me this seems like its trying to run an oldier verison of imagemagick and my system is running the lastest verison.
james whittaker 09 13 2006 04:34 PM
Just got the latest release from svn. Looks great except the assets tab is broken? Any ideas?
Raymond Lim 09 18 2006 07:08 PM
Is there a known bug with multi-user accounts? I can't seem to log into administration with any account other than the initial admin account. I can create other user accounts but they get stuck at the login screen. There's no error, just a reload of the login screen even after successful log-in with a non-admin account.
rick 09 20 2006 12:51 PM
Not really a bug, just an unimplemented feature. Edge is incomplete in spots. Stick to the released versions for some stability and piece of mind.
rick 09 20 2006 12:52 PM
Oh, and to be clear, permissions are the unimplemented features, not the inability to log in to the admin area :)
tim 09 22 2006 02:30 PM
Sly: That error is because RMagick was basically compiled against an earlier version of ImageMagick. You need to type something like this to update (recompile) RMagick... "sudo gem install rmagick" assuming you installed rmagick from a gem... If that's not your setup then feel free to contact me with more details and I'll help you sort it out... Cheers!
tim 09 22 2006 02:32 PM
Sly: Sorry ... eamil doesn't show in posts :-) Mine is "IT -at- mcgeecorp -dot- com" Cheers!
Raymond Lim 09 29 2006 09:22 PM
Hey Rick, theme manager still not working eh? Also, have you made changes to how themes are loaded as current? Previously, all I had to do was rename the theme to site-1 in the themes folder, but now doing that doesn't actually change the theme (still uses default hemingway). I've been trying to get Skittlish-0.3 to work all day, but can't get it to be the current theme.
Raymond Lim 09 30 2006 10:35 PM
Finally got Mephisto to work with that awesome Skittles theme. The latest revision on trunk seems to need the theme to be uploaded manually to the site-1/current directory. After doing so, everything runs peachy. Also, a word of advice to anyone thinking about running Mephisto symlinked on a subdirectory (eg. mysitecom/mephisto), save yourself the hassle and just run it on a subdomain (eg. mephisto.mysitecom). I say this because a lot of things still seem to be hardcoded as absolute paths (url ('/etc/etc')) and this causes things to go awry (feeds, search, images not loading) if you run the application on a subdir. Unless, I'm missing a configuration somewhere..
James Gallagher 10 02 2006 10:16 AM
I'm having some trouble getting ecto to work with the Metaweblog API. I'm getting an error when ecto tries to retrieve the list of blogs - I've got the correct URL, so I'm wondering if it's far along enough yet to support this type of call (I think ecto makes a Blogger API call to get the list of blogs so that may be the issue?)