Steve Sloan

Steve Sloan

Hacker, drummer, primate

Typo w/ Rails Installer: The New Hotness

So I had this very long and in-depth article almost-completely written article, detailing the nifty hacks I used to deploy this website on top of Typo, using Capistrano and a litle script to symlink them together. It was beautiful and elegant … and now completely useless thanks to Typo 4 .

The magic is in the Rails Installer, a handy little gem for doing end-user installs. Makes my elegant little hacks a little silly.

sigh

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