James Smith

When the Linux kernel moved to using git for version control, I didn't really pay much attention, to be honest. When Rails moved, I only really paid attention because it made my life harder, as Piston doesn't support git fully yet. However, I've now had a reason to use it myself, and I have to say I'm actually rather more impressed than I thought I'd be.

Well, it was about time for an overhaul... my old site was looking increasingly outdated, and it didn't really fulfill what I wanted from it any more, so I've moved over to a new one, using Mephisto. It's deployed on my own virtual server, and is running under Phusion Passenger, the new mod_rails solution for Apache. It's definitely been the easiest Rails installation I've ever done! Not sure how well it would stand up to heavy use, but this site certainly doesn't need to be high-capacity, so it does the job admirably.

The hardest thing about getting the new site up and running was deciphering Mephisto's liquid code. While there is *some* documentation, most of it seems to be out of date and scattered across the net, so it was a bit awkward. I'm sure you can expect a couple of blog posts detailing exactly what I had to do to get the site into a good shape at some point...