When I woke up on Sunday Morning at 3:30, I discovered that there was a new version of Typo out. Anxious to find fixes for the bugs I’d enoutered in version 4, I started reading through the release notes where I discoved that the copy of rails on my server wasn’t compatible with the latest Typo. Worse yet, neither was compatible with the version of Ruby installed.
So, thinking I knew what I was doing, I did the download-configure-make-make install dance for Ruby, readline, gems, rails and typo. With all of that going smoothly, I went for the final step: typo install [directoryname], at which point everything went to hell. It backed up my database, but then modified the original and crapped out. Trying to back out the changes didn’t work. Nor did anything else I tried. The error messages? How about: “unable to find method read!” Yeah, that’s working.
To be honest, I probably screwed it up. In fact, I’m sure of it. Which is why I’m switching to WordPress. Dreamhost’s one-click-install made installation a breeze, and hopefully I’ll figure out how to get my old data transitioned over soon.