Rob Seaman

Last month Mephisto 0.8.1: Drax was relaunched. Seeing activity on Mephisto was great news in itself. The update includes support for Rails 2.2.2 and several significant security fixes. The release is considered experimental but important because of the security fixes. That's a bit of a mixed message but I have no financial stake in my blog so decided to do an update.

This post describes my update process. It provides some general information about the changes and provides an example of using interactive git rebasing but in most cases it won't be a cookie cutter approach that you can follow for your own Mephisto implementation. In gitting Started with Mephisto and other posts I've described how I set-up Mephisto 0.8. Unless you've followed along and are maintaining Mephisto in the same way, or at least maintain your Mephisto blog in a git repository with customizations in your own branch, then your update procedure will probably be significantly different. Read the rest of this entry