As you’re reading this… it’s coming from a new Ruby on Rails platform… Mephisto
It’s taken me a good 3 to 4 hours to get everything converted and working properly.
Overall it wasn’t too horribly different. Added a few routing rules and had to change two small pieces of data in my old blog to accommodate the new system.
But other than that, it went smooth.
Let me know if you’re having problems…
One of the things that makes it easier is that there’s a built in URL rewriting engine… Here’s a set of rules that I found useful for a standard Typo install…
Mephisto::Routing.redirect ‘articles/?/?/?/?’ => ‘/$1/$2/$3/$4’
Mephisto::Routing.redirect ‘articles/tag/*’ => ‘/tags/$1’
Mephisto::Routing.redirect ‘articles/category/*’ => ‘/$1’
Mephisto::Routing.redirect ‘xml/rss20/feed.xml’ => ‘/feed/rss.xml’
Mephisto::Routing.redirect ‘xml/atom10/feed.xml’ => ‘/feed/atom.xml’
There you have it folks… The site will be running a little slow until I figure out why my stupid dispatch.fcgi won’t run.
Of course if you use the settings to redo the article permalink… you don’t need the first redirect.
At any rate, I also redirected all my feeds to feedburner, it should be seamless and invisible to all of you!
Awesome!