Random Hacks: Moving a blog to Typo

"Moving a blog to Typo" by Kevin Davis

Wed, 24 May 2006 00:59:29 -0400

Thanks for putting this up!

I adapted this to my needs (in the process of moving from an MT blog) but it was failing for me.

I couldn’t figure out why until I ran a bunch of tests and saw that article_url wasn’t returning anything. This seemingly wasn’t available to my controller? For the time being I’ve pasted the method into my legacy_controller.rb and it works fine.

In the process I learned a bunch about functional testing, so time well spent.

Any thoughts on what’s up here would be appreciated!

"Moving a blog to Typo" by erinc

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:21:21 -0400

looking good…

Moving a blog to Typo

Eric Kidd — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:13:00 -0500

This weekend, I moved Random Hacks to Typo, a nifty Rails-based blogging system. Here’s what I did:

Set up my Mac for Rails development
Pointed Typo at MySQL
Created a custom theme
Wrote an article importer
Routed my old URLs to new locations
Wrote some custom sidebars
Configured Debian’s mod_fcgid

Now for the gruesome details.