Scott Rutherford

I have just completed (well apart from moving any assets over) the switch from Typo to Mephisto. It was fairly painless. There was one :dependent declaration that needed fixing in the converter code and other than that pretty much everything I needed to know was in these two posts.

How I converted Type to Mephisto

Finally switched to Mephisto

The solution given for fixing your routes found in the later of these I found also needed this line:

Mephisto::Routing.redirect '/articles' => '/'

to get all my permalinks to work. The result on my memory usage is pretty dramatic and hopefully I won’t get as much spam…..

I have been messing around with Facebook apps recently and I found a couple of articles to be very helpful:

Tutorial On Developing A Facebook Platform Application With Ruby on Rails

Continuing Facebook Applications With Ruby on Rails

Fist in your Facebook

Apologies to anyone who found this blog down over the last couple of days. For some reason I was subject to a DDOS attack!!! Wouldn’t really of thought of myself as a entertaining target really, but there you go…..