Mephisto seems to be hitting the rails community in full wave recently. I’ve ran across it about 6 months ago, and have started to use it for various projects I’ve been involved with. Besides Typo, this is the first open-source rails application I’ve enjoyed using. While there is not a lot of quality themes (yet I hope), and definitely not as many plugins as WordPress has, it definitely ranks up there with some of the top blogging apps available in the market today.While Mephisto isn’t for everyone, especially seeing that your web host needs to support Rails, and you have to install it. The install is a bit tricky if you’ve never used rails before, so I strongly urge you to consider something else if you’re not a rails developer. Although, I’m sure with a little help from the Rails community, you may be able to get it installed ok.Mephisto has some quality features like:
- Beautiful admin interface
- Slick Asset Management
- Flexible Liquid templating system (inspired by Django, used by Shopify
- ATOM feeds
- some tagging, some ajax, yadd yadda
They are always looking for help especially in some areas such as:
- API plugin
- Documentation
- coverters for wordpress, typo, movable type
- xml -rpc api support
- and tons! of ruby on rails code fixes
If you’re looking for ways to help, check out the Mephisto site and they should be able to get you in touch with the right people!
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