Comments on: Mephisto on Bluehost http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/ Macs, programming, and technology Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Ben http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-203 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:52:12 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-203 I wish I had a detailed error message to post, but all I get is that Application Error message. I did install Mephisto (from SVN) locally on my PowerMac, and it worked fine, so I think Bluehost's web server isn't up to snuff. (The installation was basically identical.) I'll look into it some more later and see if I can find a way to fix it... I wish I had a detailed error message to post, but all I get is that Application Error message. I did install Mephisto (from SVN) locally on my PowerMac, and it worked fine, so I think Bluehost’s web server isn’t up to snuff. (The installation was basically identical.) I’ll look into it some more later and see if I can find a way to fix it…

]]> by: rick http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-196 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:06:03 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-196 Please do post a detailed error message to the mephisto mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/MephistoBlog). I'm afraid "Application Error" is a generic message and won't really help out much. However, I haven't heard of many issues if you freeze to rails edge 4727 (the install docs mention this) and have the proper gems, provided your web server stuff is up to snuff. Please do post a detailed error message to the mephisto mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/MephistoBlog). I’m afraid “Application Error” is a generic message and won’t really help out much. However, I haven’t heard of many issues if you freeze to rails edge 4727 (the install docs mention this) and have the proper gems, provided your web server stuff is up to snuff.

]]> by: Top of the Mountains » Blog Archive » The sidebar groove http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-195 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:48:43 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-195 [...] As you may’ve noticed if you read the blog directly instead of through an aggregator, I’ve been messing around with the sidebar. It’s still way too long, though, but a thorough fix will have to wait till I redo the entire design. (And possibly switch to Mephisto.) I’m thinking of moving both the Archives and the Categories lists into dropdown boxes, which will save a ton of space. I’m debating the merits of having Contact Me, My Sites, New Bookmarks, Flickr, and LibraryThing on the sidebar — they really could go in an About Me page or something like that. Hmm… Oh, I’ve also bumped up the number of recent comments displayed to 10 (from seven). [...] […] As you may’ve noticed if you read the blog directly instead of through an aggregator, I’ve been messing around with the sidebar. It’s still way too long, though, but a thorough fix will have to wait till I redo the entire design. (And possibly switch to Mephisto.) I’m thinking of moving both the Archives and the Categories lists into dropdown boxes, which will save a ton of space. I’m debating the merits of having Contact Me, My Sites, New Bookmarks, Flickr, and LibraryThing on the sidebar — they really could go in an About Me page or something like that. Hmm… Oh, I’ve also bumped up the number of recent comments displayed to 10 (from seven). […]

]]> by: Ben http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-194 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:48:37 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-194 Thanks, Rick. Did that and followed the gem unpacking instructions (the first time I read them, I didn't understand that gem:freeze would create a directory, but it's pretty clear now that I reread it -- duh :)). Got it all up on my server but now I'm getting "Application error: Rails application failed to start properly". Rails <i>does</i> work -- I just ran "rails test" and was able to get to /test/public/ just fine -- so something else must be wrong. I ran Rake to see if the test cases would succeed, and they all did. I also tried adding a subdomain (in case it didn't want to be installed in a subdirectory, for some bizarre reason), but that made no difference. The databases were created correctly (as the tests confirmed). Hmm... Thanks, Rick. Did that and followed the gem unpacking instructions (the first time I read them, I didn’t understand that gem:freeze would create a directory, but it’s pretty clear now that I reread it — duh :)). Got it all up on my server but now I’m getting “Application error: Rails application failed to start properly”. Rails does work — I just ran “rails test” and was able to get to /test/public/ just fine — so something else must be wrong. I ran Rake to see if the test cases would succeed, and they all did. I also tried adding a subdomain (in case it didn’t want to be installed in a subdirectory, for some bizarre reason), but that made no difference. The databases were created correctly (as the tests confirmed).

Hmm…

]]> by: rick http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-193 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:09:01 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2006/08/16/mephisto-on-bluehost/#comment-193 I tried to make Mephisto shared-host-friendly by including all the gems it needs. It doesn't include tzinfo, because its a fairly large gem. But, it's very easy to unpack the gem and upload it. As for edge rails, you can just check it out yourself: svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails -r 4727 Here's info on gem unpacking: http://mephistoblog.com/2006/8/8/installing-mephisto-without-required-gems I tried to make Mephisto shared-host-friendly by including all the gems it needs. It doesn’t include tzinfo, because its a fairly large gem. But, it’s very easy to unpack the gem and upload it. As for edge rails, you can just check it out yourself:

svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails -r 4727

Here’s info on gem unpacking: http://mephistoblog.com/2006/8/8/installing-mephisto-without-required-gems

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