From a0da1249a31faa7048c83ae9639001a5b7e402fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael D. Ivey" <ivey@gweezlebur.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:58:54 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add a working Mephisto / MySQL converter

---
 lib/jekyll/converters/mephisto.rb | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/converters/mephisto.rb b/lib/jekyll/converters/mephisto.rb
index cf2bb8ea..6d6c6565 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/converters/mephisto.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/converters/mephisto.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
+# Quickly hacked together my Michael Ivey
+# Based on mt.rb by Nick Gerakines, open source and publically
+# available under the MIT license. Use this module at your own risk.
+
 require 'rubygems'
+require 'sequel'
 require 'fastercsv'
 require 'fileutils'
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"csv.rb")
+
+# NOTE: This converter requires Sequel and the MySQL gems.
+# The MySQL gem can be difficult to install on OS X. Once you have MySQL
+# installed, running the following commands should work:
+# $ sudo gem install sequel
+# $ sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
+ 
 module Jekyll
   module Mephisto
     #Accepts a hash with database config variables, exports mephisto posts into a csv
@@ -20,5 +32,48 @@ module Jekyll
       `#{command}`
       CSV.process
     end
+
+    # This query will pull blog posts from all entries across all blogs. If
+    # you've got unpublished, deleted or otherwise hidden posts please sift
+    # through the created posts to make sure nothing is accidently published.
+
+    QUERY = "SELECT id, permalink, body, published_at, title FROM contents WHERE user_id = 1 AND type = 'Article' AND published_at IS NOT NULL ORDER BY published_at"
+ 
+    def self.process(dbname, user, pass, host = 'localhost')
+      db = Sequel.mysql(dbname, :user => user, :password => pass, :host => host)
+      
+      FileUtils.mkdir_p "_posts"
+            
+      db[QUERY].each do |post|
+        title = post[:title]
+        slug = post[:permalink]
+        date = post[:published_at]
+        content = post[:body]
+#         more_content = ''
+        
+        # Be sure to include the body and extended body.
+#         if more_content != nil
+#           content = content + " \n" + more_content
+#         end
+        
+        # Ideally, this script would determine the post format (markdown, html
+        # , etc) and create files with proper extensions. At this point it
+        # just assumes that markdown will be acceptable.
+        name = [date.year, date.month, date.day, slug].join('-') + ".markdown"
+
+        data = {
+           'layout' => 'post',
+           'title' => title.to_s,
+           'mt_id' => post[:entry_id],
+         }.delete_if { |k,v| v.nil? || v == ''}.to_yaml
+ 
+        File.open("_posts/#{name}", "w") do |f|
+          f.puts data
+          f.puts "---"
+          f.puts content
+        end
+      end
+ 
+    end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end