Greetings! I’ve been doing some maintenance work on Mephisto. The current development version now supports Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.0.5. The unit tests all pass, and model_stubbing has been ripped out and replaced with machinist. I want to thank Rick Olson, Sven Fuchs and Peter Suschlik for all their help.

There are several things that we should probably do before making a Mephisto 0.8.1 release:

  1. Test the new Mephisto on a variety of different systems.
  2. Merge any bug fixes that people want to get into trunk.
  3. Fix some JavaScript issues with the asset manager.

If you’d like to try out the development version of Mephisto, please back up your database and see the installation notes on my github wiki. Better yet, make a copy of your database and run Mephisto somewhere that won’t interfere with your current site. Remember, this version of Mephisto is development software, and it may break in a variety of exciting ways.

If you’d like to submit bug fixes, please send me a push request on github (or point me at your git repository). This is an excellent time to get your least favorite bugs fixed once and for all.

Thank you for helping out with the development and testing of Mephisto!