@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -The Ramaze development team is happy to announce version 2009.06 of Ramaze, the +The Ramaze development team is happy to announce version 2009.07 of Ramaze, the light and modular open source web framework that tries to stay out of your way. -This release features a lot of work directly from our community and we are -really greatful for everybody who helped in testing, patching and contributing -exciting new features. +This release contains mostly bug fixes and compatibility improvements. -Our extensive set of specs and docs now covers almost every detail of -implementation and usage. Ramaze is under development by a growing community -and in production use at companies. +Also, thanks to the work of Jeremy Evans, Scaffolding Extensions works with the +current version of Ramaze again, giving you a powerful and simple way to +provide CRUD and admin interfaces for Sequel and ActiveRecord. -There have been too many changes since the last official announcement in -2008.07, so I will only list changes since the last release. +I also would like to take this opportunity to ask for volunteers that are +running on Windows, we are currently working on a major overhaul of the ramaze +executable and would like to make sure it behaves correctly. +If you are interested, check out the modular-bin branch and report any issues +on the bug tracker or hang out on IRC. == Metadata @@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ Home page: http://ramaze.net Wiki: http://wiki.ramaze.net Repository: http://github.com/manveru/ramaze +Bug tracker: http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/issues Git clone: git://github.com/manveru/ramaze Current tarball: http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tarball/master @@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ Simple example: require 'ramaze' - class MainController + class MainController < Ramaze::Controller def index 'Hello, World!' end @@ -39,66 +41,33 @@ Simple example: Ramaze.start -== Around 80 commits since 2009.05 - -- Improved bin/ramaze with lots of specs, should work now even on windows. -- Middleware order has been inverted. -- Support for Webrat out of the box. -- Fixed MemCache caching and sessions. -- Removed a whole lot of methods that were marked deprecated. -- New default Layout helper - - == Summarized changes with their respective commits -- Antti Tuomi - - Link helper did not set the prefix, added spec and fixed the behaviour - [ af753a0 | bae2b53 | eba4734 ] +- Aaron Müller + - Update identity helper with new link helper + +- Masahiro Nakagawa + - Rewrite localization example - Michael Fellinger (manveru) - - Fix bug that made default port/handler break in bin/ramaze [ e6715e1 ] - - Remove deprecated methods on Ramaze::Controller, Helper::Cache, - Helper::Link, and Helper::Auth. Also remove the deprecated methods - Object#acquire, String#/, and Symbol#/ - [ 272fced | 1e4ac92 | a0a9329 | 68242b3 | 57e7a85 | 31b809a | 3fc4622 ] - - The bacon scope :mock was renamed to :rack_test, added shared :webrat, so - you can run your specs with that as well. Also move the bacon-specific code - to ramaze/spec/bacon, prepare for test-framework-agnostic behaviour. - [ f1a2669 | c12a0a4 | fdde916 ] - - Fix ordering of middleware [ 508bffc ] - - Warn and fix the ttl if someone exceeds the maximum ttl allowed by MemCache - [ 3124879 | bc08091 ] - - Comaptibility with localmemcache 0.4.0 [ 096f051 ] - - Fixed Cache::Sequel to work with 3.1.0 [ d2c2b85 ] - - Fix bug with memcache on 1.9, make sure the Etag middleware works on it - [ 21763df | 1d0dff5 ] - - A little bit of example-usage for Helper::Form#form_select, improve by - allowing :multiple => 10 [ a634582 | de73014 ] - - Avoid useless iteration and fix ambigous linking in helper/paginate - [ 6fb74df | 9b73450 ] - - Respect preset options for port/adapter on ramaze start [ 6efaaaa ] - - Preserve file permissions during `ramaze create` [ 3e3bc0a ] - - Implement and spec the lonely controller rule [ fdfe5b9 | 4dd866b ] - - Fix "bug" pointed out by druby [ 796627a ] - - Output to logger in ramaze/setup if Log is available, don't output the - require exception twice. Avoid infinite recursion when a - gem name does not match it's lib name [ b9fa0c4 | 7bc9d65 | e6b4996 ] - - Put a notice into config.ru making clear that the handler cannot be set - inside [ b4bad57 ] - - Some mods to contrib, fix facebook.rb syntax for ruby 1.9 and adding - Ramaze::AddressableRoute for great profit! [ c7fbf0c | cafe657 ] - - Don't write a file to /tmp during the bin/ramaze spec [ eb5e4ef ] - -- Pistos - - Explicitly state top-level namespace for ::File in config.ru, since - otherwise it is confused for Rack::File. - [ 5509950 ] - - Added Layout helper with specs and documentation - [ a84f675 | 41ad023 | 4f23d16 ] - -- TJ Vanderpoel (bougyman) - - Added some specs for ramaze/bin, correcting a require bug already in - bin/ramaze. [ 8bbb8e8 | 9a3edf3 | 33fa3aa ] + - Adding support for the less CSS templating engine + - Better defaults for proto specs + - The Helper::Cache#cache_value optionally takes a block now + - Make sure proto/config.ru points to correct location + - Fix annoying behaviour when '/' location is assigned to an app loaded + earlier, apps loaded afterwards would overwrite the mapping. This caused + some very annoying and hard to debug behaviour. + - Fix bacon task dependency + - Fix Controller to work properly on Ruby 1.8.6 + - Fix bug when using localmemcache on Ruby 1.9 + - Fix the misc/css example + - Remove Helper::Cache#cache method + - Use absolute paths for requires in all ramaze specs, $LOAD_PATH in Ruby + 1.9.2 will not include '.' + - Remove ContentLength middleware from :live and :dev modes. Rack handlers + use it already. + - Refactor contrib/addressable_route, it now uses instance variables and can + take a mapping on initialize. A complete Changelog is available at http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true @@ -106,19 +75,22 @@ http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true == Known issues -- Some problems may show up when running the specs, these are mostly caused - by the gem-versions of Rack::Test and Rack, they only affect the specs and - should have no influence on the actual runtime. +- When running on Ruby 1.9.x, Rack 1.0.0 has problems with the encoding, it is + recommended to use master HEAD from http://github.com/rack/rack until the + next release of Rack. +- When running on Ruby 1.9.2dev (ruby trunk), using the thin handler can lead + to memory leaks. The cause is yet unknown, please use Ruby 1.9.1 or another + handler (mongrel, webrick, and fcgi are known to work well) == Ramaze Features - Builds on top of the Rack library, which provides easy use of adapters like - Mongrel, WEBrick, LiteSpeed, Thin, CGI or FCGI. + Mongrel, WEBrick, LiteSpeed, Thin, CGI, SCGI, or FCGI. -- Supports a wide range of templating-engines like: ERB, Erubis, Haml, Liquid, - Maruku, Redcloth, Remarkably, Sass, Tagz, Tenjin. And its own engines called - Etanni, Ezamar, Gestalt, and Nagoro. +- Supports a wide range of templating-engines like: ERB, Erubis, Haml, Less, + Liquid, Maruku, Redcloth, Remarkably, Sass, Tagz, Tenjin. And its own engines + called Etanni, Ezamar, Gestalt, and Nagoro. - Highly modular structure: you can just use the parts you like. This also means that it's very simple to add your own customizations. @@ -128,8 +100,7 @@ http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true controllers. - It is possible to use the ORM you like, be it Sequel, DataMapper, - ActiveRecord, Og, Kansas or something more simplistic like DBI, or a wrapper - around YAML::Store. + ActiveRecord, Og, Kansas or something more simplistic like M4DBI. - Good documentation: although we don't have 100% documentation right now (dcov says around 75%), just about every part of Ramaze is covered with basic and @@ -137,7 +108,7 @@ http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true available. - Friendly community: there are people from all over the world using Ramaze, so - you can get almost instant help and info. + you can get plenty of help and information around the clock. For more information please come to http://ramaze.net or ask directly on IRC doc/meta/announcement.txt 158ae0fb4c265c8f03c504ceacb43eb90d1ea223 Michael Fellinger manveru m.fellinger@gmail.com http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/commit/dd9d8381583466a9f7e6078bcaf7fb85138996ac dd9d8381583466a9f7e6078bcaf7fb85138996ac 2009-07-02T00:02:57-07:00 2009-07-02T00:02:57-07:00 Update announcement 255432841f1a403c551732a63f7a356fe410aca3 Michael Fellinger manveru m.fellinger@gmail.com