I recently decided to revive this blog, but I didn't want to continue using Mephisto for my blogging platform. I wanted to be able to write my blog posts in markdown or Haml, and store all meta-data about the posts in the Haml template. In addition I wanted to have an ActiveRecord-esque interface for blog post meta-data. In this post, I'll describe how I used Haml filters and ActiveHash to create this blogging platform.