To get Vlad 1.2.0 to work with Thin I did the following.

First change the line where Vlad is included to this:

   1  Vlad.load :scm => :git, :app => :thin

Now run vlad:setup:

   1  $ rake vlad:setup
   2  (in /Users/christian/Documents/Projects/nyhetsanka.fi)
   3  Unable to load Vlad no such file to load -- vlad/thin
   4  rake aborted!
   5  Please specify the server domain via the :domain variable
   6  
   7  (See full trace by running task with --trace)

The fix for this error:

   1  Unable to load Vlad no such file to load -- vlad/thin

Is to run the following command:

   1  curl -o /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/vlad-1.2.0/lib/vlad/thin.rb http://github.com/dpiddy/vlad/raw/master/lib/vlad/thin.rb

   1  " Vim color scheme
   2  "
   3  " Name:         aktagon.vim
   4  " Maintainer:   Christian Hellsten 
   5  " Last Change:  17 December 2008
   6  " License:      public domain
   7  " Version:      1.0
   8  "
   9  " Based on http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1995
  10  "
  11  
  12  set background=dark
  13  hi clear
  14  if exists("syntax_on")
  15    syntax reset
  16  endif
  17  
  18  let g:colors_name = "aktagon"
  19  
  20  if has("gui_running")
  21    hi link htmlTag                     xmlTag
  22    hi link htmlTagName                 xmlTagName
  23    hi link htmlEndTag                  xmlEndTag
  24  
  25    highlight Normal                    guifg=#E6E1DC   guibg=#2B2B2B
  26    highlight Cursor                    guifg=#000000   guibg=#FFFFFF
  27    "highlight CursorLine               guibg=#323300
  28   
  29    highlight Comment                   guifg=#BC9458   gui=italic
  30    highlight Constant                  guifg=#6D9CBE
  31    highlight Define                    guifg=#CC7833
  32    highlight Error                     guifg=#FFFFFF   guibg=#990000
  33    highlight Function                  guifg=#FFC66D   gui=NONE
  34    highlight Identifier                guifg=#6D9CBE   gui=NONE
  35    highlight Include                   guifg=#CC7833   gui=NONE
  36    highlight Keyword                   guifg=#CC7833
  37    hi        LineNr		                guifg=#888888   ctermfg=lightMagenta
  38  
  39    highlight Number                    guifg=#A5C261
  40    highlight PreProc                   guifg=#E6E1DC
  41    highlight Search                    guibg=#FFFF00
  42    highlight Statement                 guifg=#CC7833   gui=NONE
  43    highlight String                    guifg=#A5C261
  44    highlight Title                     guifg=#FFFFFF
  45    highlight Type                      guifg=#DA4939   gui=NONE
  46    highlight Visual                    guibg=#5A647E
  47    
  48    highlight DiffAdd                   guifg=#E6E1DC   guibg=#144212
  49    highlight DiffDelete                guifg=#E6E1DC   guibg=#660000
  50    
  51    highlight rubyBlockParameter        guifg=#FFFFFF
  52    highlight rubyClass                 guifg=#FFFFFF
  53    highlight rubyConstant              guifg=#DA4939
  54    highlight rubyInstanceVariable      guifg=#D0D0FF
  55    highlight rubyInterpolation         guifg=#519F50
  56    highlight rubyLocalVariableOrMethod guifg=#D0D0FF
  57    highlight rubyPredefinedConstant    guifg=#DA4939
  58    highlight rubyPseudoVariable        guifg=#FFC66D
  59    highlight rubyStringDelimiter       guifg=#A5C261
  60    
  61    highlight xmlTag                    guifg=#E8BF6A
  62    highlight xmlTagName                guifg=#E8BF6A
  63    highlight xmlEndTag                 guifg=#E8BF6A
  64  endif
  65  
  66  
  67  " Fuzzy Finder popup
  68  hi Pmenu           guibg=#FFFFFF guifg=#000000
  69  hi PMenuSel        guibg=#242424 guifg=#FFFFFF gui=bold
  70  hi PmenuSbar       guibg=#2e3330 guifg=#000000
  71  hi PMenuThumb      guibg=#a0afa0 guifg=#040404 
  72  

   1  set history=100
   2  
   3  let mapleader = ","
   4  set tabstop=2
   5  set smarttab
   6  set shiftwidth=2
   7  set autoindent
   8  set expandtab
   9  set backspace=start,indent
  10  
  11  
  12  autocmd FileType make     set noexpandtab
  13  autocmd FileType python   set noexpandtab
  14  
  15  
  16  set number
  17  set hlsearch
  18  syntax on
  19  
  20  let g:fuzzy_trim_length = 3000
  21  let g:fuzzy_ignore = "*.log"
  22  let g:fuzzy_matching_limit = 70
  23  
  24  map ,t :FuzzyFinderTextMate<CR>
  25  map ,b :FuzzyFinderBuffer<CR>
  26  
  27  map ,d :execute 'NERDTreeToggle ' . getcwd()<CR>
  28  
  29  set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono:h9
  30  
  31  au GUIEnter * simalt ~x
  32  
  33  colorscheme railscasts
  34  " set guifont=consolas:h8
  35  

At Aktagon we use MephistoBlog as CMS , and I couldn’t find any information on how to SEO optimize MephistoBlog on Google, so I’m sharing my notes here.

This tip shows you how to make your pages more search engine friendly.

First, add the title tag, plus the meta description and keywords tags to your layout’s Liquid template , as shown here:

   1  <meta name="description" content="{% if article %} {{ article.excerpt }}  {% else %} YOUR DEFAULT SITE DESCRIPTION {% endif %}" />
   2  	<meta name="keywords" content="{% if article %} {% for tag in article.tags %}{{ tag }}, {% endfor %} {% endif %} YOUR DEFAULT KEYWORDS" />
   3  	<title>{% if article %} {{ article.title }} &raquo; {{ site.title }} {% else %} {{ site.title }} &raquo; {{ site.subtitle }} {% endif %}</title>

Remember to update the default description and keywords in the meta tags’ body.

Now, whenever you publish an article, simply add an excerpt and some tags to it. The excerpt is used as the meta description and the article’s tags as the meta keywords, both make Google a bit happier, but the description is by far the more important.

I ended up writing this snippet after I found out that deploying a git branch with vlad wasn’t as easy as it should’ve been…

I assumed the Vlad documentation was right, so I put the branch name in the revision variable (located in config/deploy.rb):

   1  set :revision,              'branch_name'

But then I got this error when executing rake vlad:deploy:

   1  git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing
   2  Did you intend to checkout 'branch_name' which can not be resolved as commit?

I managed to solve the problem by using the SHA1 hash of the branch instead of the branch name, but that only worked for the current revision:

   1  set :revision,              'd34360870be6536992e6d45bb0aa72eca31e14443'

So after some googling I found this post at scie.nti.st, which made my day because it has the following examples of how to deploy tags and branches with git and Vlad:

   1  # Deploy the latest code, this the default
   2  set :revision, "HEAD" 
   3  
   4  # Deploy branch "origin/branch_name"
   5  set :revision, "origin/branch_name"
   6   
   7  # Deploy tag "1.0"
   8  set :revision, "1.0"

Note that you have to push the branch to the remote server before running rake vlad:deploy:

   1  git push origin branch_name