Mephisto on Bluehost

[crowderb]

I just discovered Mephisto (http://mephistoblog.com), a sweet new Rails blogging app. Has anyone tried to install it? (It wants Edge Rails, specifically revision 4727, and you have to install a couple of gems, so I suspect it's not going to work. But you never know...)

Thanks,
Ben

[BrandonK]

Never tried it, tell me if ya get it up..I'd like to see it. :)

[mmarcos]

I've got mephisto running on my Bluehost account at:
http://rodesia.org
It's not exactly a one-click install, but not too hard either.

Regards,
Miguel

[BartG]

mmarcos.. i'm going through your directions now, and am having a problem during the final rake step (rake RAILS_ENV=production db:bootstrap).. complaining about missing tzinfo-0.3.1.gem... any clues.. how do you find out if this gem is installed?

thanks, bart

[bondibox]

I've installed Mephisto a few times but this latest version wouldn't budge when it came time to rake db:bootstrap. Just like BartG I got a tzinfo error, even though I have tzinfo in my vendor folder it won't rake. I followed the instructions at http://rodesia.org,

then I tried the alternate plan where you install Mephisto on the local machine and installed the gem that way:

$ rake rails:freeze:edge
$ sudo gem install tzinfo --remote
$ rake gems:freeze GEM=tzinfo

Still, after packing it up as an archive and trying to install at BlueHost, it failed.

Success was finally obtained when I followed the process for a local gem install
http://mephisto.stikipad.com/help/show/Installing+Mephisto+on+a+shared+host

$ set GEM_PATH=~/gems
$ mkdir ~/gems
$ gem install -i ~/gems tzinfo
$ cp -R ~/gems/gems/tzinfo-0.3.1/lib/* /home/USERNAME/railsapps/mephisto/lib

I still changed the shebang line,
http://blog.matharvard.com/2006/9/21/mephisto-subversion

as well as finished up all the other instructions at http://rodesia.org/

[bondibox]

I had to reinstall Mephisto on Bluehost, and my previous directions no longer worked to download new gems. I had to take the process one step further by setting up my own GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH variables.
http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11954

Things got a little dodgy when the gems still couldn't be found, I changed the entries so the default path precedes the custom path, and I *think* that's how I finished the install, either that or I went back to my original directions at step #9 and copied the new gem to lib ... after a few reinstalls the scientific method just goes to pot ...

Also I found that by default Mephisto is not running in Production mode, so I uncommented that line from environments.rb

[vreal]

Hi everyone,

I've installed the mephisto on my domain but I've always got
Application error

Rails application failed to start properly"

I've use gem install tzinfo --remote to install tzinfo and the install seems succeed.
then I extracted mephisto's tar.gz file to ~/rails dir and created a link in public_html folder to the public folder under mephisto
edited the database.yml file and pointed it to mysql database.
I used rake db:bootstrap to create database and it was also looks fine.

Can anyone tell me what can I do to make it works?
Thanks.

[drichards]

I've just been messing with this today. I was also having problems with application errors and no log. What I found was that the shebang line in the dispatch* files needed to be updated to #!/usr/bin/ruby

That was all it took for me.