Mar

20

A client at Barefoot wanted to preserve their old Typepad blog posts in the new site we were building for them in Rails. I figured this might be a common task that others go through, so I wrote a Rake task and it’s hosted at Github. It uses the TP RSS2 feed and does some massaging of the content. Typepad does some odd things with content, specifically around images embedded in posts. I’m sure not every content situation is handled, so feed free to fork it and make changes.

Mar

5

I was tasked with moving a CakePHP based site from Dreamhost to a Grid Server at MediaTemple, and while doing so thought it would be a good time to get the site into Git and deploy with Capistrano. Turned out to be a little bit of headache. Last night I was finally able to complete a recipe that would deploy the site to the Grid Server (gs). It required a few directory changes and symlinks put in place, but it works now. The process for deploying a Rails site to a (gs) container is pretty well documented, but deploying a non-Rails site to a domain directory on the Grid Servers is not. Hopefully this helps others. I’m not sure how common it is in the PHP world to deploy a site using Capistrano.

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