Mephisto 0.8.2

Last week Eric Kidd announced the latest version of Mephisto, the Rails-based blogging system, has been released:

Mephisto 0.8.2 is now available on the download page!

Mephisto’s JavaScript is in much better shape, and most of the remaining “tainted string” errors should now be fixed. The default article and comment filter is now Textile (instead of raw HTML), and our gem management has been cleaned up.

I mention this here, vainly, because I’m cited in the contributor notes, having fixed a couple of very minor bugs.

Mephisto still has a long, long way to go before it can lay claim to rivaling the likes of WordPress but it appears to be coming along slowly but surely ( “Don’t call me Shirley”). At the very least I can say without hesitation that the Mephisto source code is much nicer to work with that that of any other blogging platform I’ve had to dig into; in fact, compared to hacking WP, Mephisto is pure pleasure.

To check out the blog I’m running on Mephisto, take a look at Beers ‘n Booze, a blog dedicated to drinking quality beer in Vancouver.