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@lynnfaraday lynnfaraday released this 21 Jul 02:56
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v0.18
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Ruby Upgrade

Ares now uses ruby 2.5 as default. You’re able to continue using 2.4 just fine, but if you get a weird rake error you should upgrade. To upgrade to 2.5, run these commands in your server shell, then restart the game:

rvm install 2.5.1
rvm use 2.5.1
gem install bundler
bundle install

Features

  • Significant improvements to the live scene playing via the web portal. Switch between scenes, add simple rolls, change location, and edit/delete previous poses.

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  • Overhauled the web portal chat page. The interface is better and you can now do things like join/leave/gag channels.

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  • Set up your website theme colors more easily with a new screen. Note: If you have shortened hex codes or color names in your colors.scss file, you’ll need to change them to a full #aaaaaa; format to use the new screen.

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  • Add a nickname feature for displaying multi-word names. See Demographics Config (Based on suggestions from Altair/Ixokai)
  • Regular players can now access their requests on the web portal. (Under Help->Requests)

Bugfixes

  • New rooms weren’t copying over the area from the room you’re building from. (Fix submitted by TheStranjer)

Miscellaneous

  • Chat history is now cleared daily.
  • You can start a scene from the location view on the web portal.
  • You can display idle time in room descs, and the format for AFK display in the rooms has been tweaked. See Describe Config.
  • Games will not register with AresCentral until they go public or you manually do so with game/register. Handles won’t work until a game is registered. It’s totally fine to register private/in-development games to enable handle features; I just got tired of cleaning out test installs (mostly my own) that weren’t actual games :)
  • I nixed the ‘web watcher’ feature for live scenes. You won’t get notified when someone is just watching the scene from the web. The (Via Web) just indicates people who are participating via the web portal, even if they’re not online at this precise moment (since web portal RP can be sporadic).
  • The “your server needs to be rebooted” message to staff jobs, both in game and on web portal, to make it more noticeable. This is important for security updates.
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