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0.4.3 / 2009-06-14

• Add support for looking up enumerators by their symbol equivalent
• Fix incompatibility with Ruby 1.9
• Fix equality / xml serialization not working for non-string enumerators
• Improve compatibility with the stable branch of Rails 2.3 [Michael Schuerig]

0.4.2 / 2009-05-03

• Fix bootstrapping without ids not working on update for certain database adapters

0.4.1 / 2009-05-01

• Improve #fast_bootstrap speed by 50% by using the connection directly

0.4.0 / 2009-04-30

• Allow cache to be cleared on a per-enumeration basis
• Add #fast_bootstrap for bootstrapping large numbers of records
• Don’t require an id during bootstrap
• Allow bootstrapping to be easily added to non-enumerations
• Cache results for #exists? / #calculate
• Add the ability to skip the internal cache via Model#uncached
• Add Model#find_all_by_enumerator
• Don’t internally rely on Model#[] being available since it may conflict with other plugins
• Enable caching by default for all enumerations
• Allow caching to be turned off on an application-wide basis
• Allow cache store to be configurable
• Automatically trigger in-memory caching of the enumeration’s table when bootstrapping
• Add #bootstrap for automatically synchronizing the records in an enumeration’s table
• Improve serialization performance
• No longer use tableless models
• Re-brand under the enumerate_by name

0.3.0 / 2008-12-14

• Remove the PluginAWeek namespace

0.2.6 / 2008-11-29

• Fix enumeration collections not being able to convert to JSON
• Add support for multiple enumeration values in finder conditions, e.g. Car.find_all_by_color(%w(red blue))

0.2.5 / 2008-10-26

• Fix non-ActiveRecord associations (e.g. ActiveResource) failing
• Fix reloading of associations not working
• Raise an exception if equality is performed with an invalid enumeration identifier
• Change how the base module is included to prevent namespacing conflicts

0.2.4 / 2008-08-31

• Add support for serialization in JSON/XML

0.2.3 / 2008-06-29

• Fix named scope for enumerations that belong_to other enumerations

0.2.2 / 2008-06-23

• Remove log files from gems

0.2.1 / 2008-06-22

• Improve documentation

0.2.0 / 2008-06-22

• Improve performance by disabling unnecessary ActiveRecord hooks including callbacks, dirty attributes, timestamps, and transactions (important for enumerations with large sets of values)
• Don’t let #create silently fail
• Remove ability to reset the cache
• Improve performance by adding pre-indexing of enumeration attributes (important for enumerations with large sets of values)
• Remove support for array comparison
• Remove support for multiple enumeration attributes

0.1.2 / 2008-06-15

• Avoid string evaluation for dynamic methods
• Fix has_many/has_one associations improperly loading classes too early
• Add support for string and array comparison
• Use after_create/after_destroy callbacks instead of defining the callback method itself

0.1.1 / 2008-05-14

• Fix automatically clearing association cache when it shouldn’t be

0.1.0 / 2008-05-05

• Add support for overriding the unique attribute that defines an enumeration e.g.

  acts_as_enumeration :title acts_as_enumeration :controller, :action

• Add support for using enumerations in has_many/has_one associations
• Add support for Rails 2.0
• Use has_finder to auto-generate finders for each enumeration value after defining a belongs_to association
• Removed support for database-backed enumerations in favor of always using virtual enumerations
• Fix enumerations failing when being reloaded
• Fix problems with setting enumeration attributes to nil
• Add inheritance support for virtual enumerations
• Add support for converting unsafe identifier names (like "red!") to their safe symbol equivalent ("red")
• Add ability to use truth accessors for determing the identifier name
• Add support for virtual enumerations that don’t need to be backed by the database

0.0.2 / 2007-09-26

• Move test fixtures out of the test application root directory
• Convert dos newlines to unix newlines

0.0.1 / 2007-08-04

• Initial public release
• Add/refactor unit tests
• Add documentation