Tag Archives: mephisto

Using Vimpress

February 28, 2009

I’m regaining some functionality I haven’t had for a long time today. Back in the old days, I used to use [Flog](http://www.ralree.com/2006/09/02/changing-up-the-flogging/”) to post to Typo, but that all went away with Mephisto (I couldn’t get XMLRPC to work properly). So, I’m trying [Vimpress](http://friggeri.net/blog/2007/07/13/vimpress). Hopefully, I won’t need to hack together Ultimate Tag Warrior into WordPress 2.8 to get tagging from vim to work. ##Update It looks like it’s working, as a matter of fact. I installed the [Markdown for [...]

Photoslice in Bluecloth and Mephisto

January 5, 2008

So, I found this today, and it is awesome. I wanted it in Bluecloth so I could use it in Mephisto. Here’s how. First, I needed to make it so I could still do normal images, but turn on coolness if I want. Here’s the goal I came up with for the grammar: [![](thumburl.jpg)](imageurl.jpg “Scrolly Text at top” “photoslice”) Here’s the first test, with a single image: And now a set with a namespace: I did it by simply modifying [...]

Tracking my workouts on cool charts

November 6, 2007

I decided today that I wanted to track my calories burned per day on a nice line graph. I did it, and I think I will continue. The total is automatically calculated by the PHP data source. This was made using my Mephisto Plugin for Open Flash Charts.

New Mephisto Post Pinger List

October 6, 2007

Today I found a nice ping list for WordPress. I decided to put it into my copy of the Mephisto Post Pinger plugin. I’m not sure if it works yet, but this post will give it a good test.

Flash Video Player for Mephisto

August 13, 2007

So I made this awesome filter for Mephisto that allows you to easily embed flash videos in your post. May require tweaking if using a non-standard URL root. It’s as simple as this: <macro:flash>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Or, you can make it complicated: <macro:flash width=”640″ height=”480″>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Which ends up like this: Installation Install it from your mephisto directory: ./script/plugin install -x https://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/code/rails/mephisto/filtered_column_flash_video Voila! Firebreathing!

Mephisto Post Pinging Improvement

August 11, 2007

So, the post pinger plugin was pretty awesome, but it was pinging RubyCorner and Rubylicious when it shouldn’t have. I made it tag-based so it checks a category of feed URL and decides whether the tag matches the category. Right now, I’ve only implemented it for the ruby tag since that’s all I should need for these two services. ArticlePingObserver::SERVICES = [ { :url => "http://rpc.pingomatic.com/", :type => :xmlrpc }, { :url => "http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm", :type => :rest }, { :url [...]

Test of XMLRPC in Mephisto

April 24, 2007

This is a simple test of flog with Mephisto.

Mephisto Comment Notification Mod

March 19, 2007

I wanted to be able to click a link in my email to see the comment it talked about. So, I modified Luke Redpath’s Comment Notification Plugin to give that to me. First, I had to do some script/console action: >> s = Site.find_first => #<Site:0xb747e014 @attributes={“current_theme_path”=>”wibbish-mephisto”,#… #… >> s.host=’www.ralree.info’ => “www.ralree.info” >> s.save => true >> quit Next, I did a small model modification: # app/models/article.rb, in the public section def full_external_link ["http://", site.host, full_permalink].join(“”) end And a slight [...]

Fixing Mephisto Post Pinger Plugin

March 2, 2007

I wanted some places to get pinged when I posted. I used the mephisto_post_ping plugin, I simply changed the directory structure and class definition around: Directory Structure ./lib/article_ping_observer.rb ./lib/mephisto_plugins/post_ping.rb ./lib/config.rb ./README ./init.rb File Changes init.rb # $Id$ require ‘mephisto_plugins/post_ping’ ActiveRecord::Base.observers << :article_ping_observer plugin.rb module Mephisto module Plugins class PostPinger < Mephisto::Plugin author ‘Mark Guzman’ version ‘$Rev: 82 $’.gsub( "Rev: ", "" ) notes "Send Weblogs Pings when articles are published" homepage "http://hasno.info/2006/11/11/mephisto-plugins" class Schema < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.install end def [...]

How to make a Mephisto Plugin

February 26, 2007

So, I figured I might as well provide a quick tutorial on how to make Mephisto Plugins currently. Many of the old plugins are broken, so there needs to be a resurgence of plugin development. Here’s the basic structure of the Tag Cloud plugin: mephisto_tag_cloud – init.rb README – lib – mephisto_plugins – tag_cloud.rb As you can see, the structure is very simple. Here’s my code for init.rb Liquid::Template.register_filter(MephistoPlugins::TagCloud) That’s it! No require or anything! Next, I edited lib/mephisto_plugins/tag_cloud.rb: module [...]

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