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Donate

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I’ve had a number of people ask how they might be able to say thanks for my contribution to the open source projects I’ve worked on (like Mephisto...

Reloading Killed My Attachments

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Update: Nicholas tried some fixes for this, but ultimately came to the conclusion that perhaps reloadable plugins weren’t such a hot idea. He’...

Mephisto 0.5: Thanos released!

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
It’s out, read the excitement over at the Mephisto Blog....

Introducing the Mephisto Blog

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
We decided to go ahead and announce the new Mephisto Blog. Mephisto 0.5 is just around the corner though, I’m still finding and squashing some minor...

Dynamic Restful Scaffolding

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
It seems this interest in restful rails apps is bringing out a number of restful scaffolding frameworks too. Once you make a few resource controllers,...

Restful Authentication Plugin

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
People have been asking me about it, so I decided to write it on the next small project I tackled. That day came last week, so here’s the pluginscript...

mephisto list

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
So, we’re going to give this whole community thing a shot. I’ve had a few requests for a Mephisto mailing list, so here it is. So, let us...

Performing tasks on reload

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Every once in awhile, you run across a situation where it would be nice to run some commands everytime rails reloads in the development environment. One...

User Ghosts and Monkey Patches

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
If you’re watching the changelogs, you’ll notice I’ve committed some very important fixes to Mephisto: Bootstrapping should work...

hell freezes over

almost 6 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Now that I’ve actually written some documention on using one of my plugins: Acts as Attachment. This is a little experiment for me, to see if I can...