Installing Mephisto

Follow these steps to get Mephisto up and running like a pro!


Note: Mephisto requires a specific version of Rails, specified in config/environment.rb. If this version isn't installed on your hosting service, you will need to freeze edge rails: rake rails:freeze:edge


You can visit the Mephisto install documentation on the site to get the most recent content, however for the impatient, here's the quick setup guide:


  1. Create a database named mephisto (or one of your choosing).
  2. Copy config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml
  3. Edit database.yml and set your database credentials.
  4. Upload the entire mephisto directory to your webserver.
  5. Run rake db:bootstrap from a terminal of some sorts (use rake db:bootstrap RAILS_ENV=production to be sure you’ve bootstrapped the production database.)
  6. Login to your administration at http://domain.com/admin with the username: admin and password: test

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About Mephisto

Mephisto was baked to golden perfection by Rick Olson(Development) and Justin Palmer(UI/Design) with contributions from a bunch of wicked cool people.