Release commit for v.0.4.1

docs/development.rst

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ or on a per-test-case level like this::
 
 Have a look at the ``run_tests.sh`` shell script for more examples!
 
-.. _releasenotes:
+.. _scraper_js_tests:
 
 Running ScrapyJS/Splash JS rendering tests
 ------------------------------------------
@@ -90,11 +90,18 @@ Docker container can be run with::
    For rendering websites served on ``localhost`` from within ``Docker/Splash``, you can connect to ``localhost`` outside the ``Docker container`` via ``http://10.0.2.2`` 
    (see e.g. `Stackoverflow <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1261975/addressing-localhost-from-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine>`_).
 
+.. _releasenotes:
+
 Release Notes
 =============
-**Changes in version 0.4.1-beta** (Not yet released)
-
-* TODO
+**Changes in version 0.4.1-beta** (2015-06-04)
+
+* Support for ``Javascript`` rendering of scraped pages via ``ScrapyJS/Splash``
+* Feature is optional and needs a working ScrapyJS/Splash deployment, see :ref:`requirements` and 
+  :ref:`setting_up_scrapyjs_splash`
+* New attribute ``render_javascript`` for ``Scraper`` model, run ``python manage.py migrate dynamic_scraper`` to
+  apply (migration ``0002``)
+* New unit tests for Javascript rendering (see: :ref:`scraper_js_tests`)
 
 **Changes in version 0.4.0-beta** (2015-06-02)
 

docs/getting_started.rst

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ from this example is used in the following guidelines.
 Installation
 ============
 
+.. _requirements:
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 The **basic requirements** for Django Dynamic Scraper are:

dynamic_scraper/spiders/django_base_spider.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
     def start_requests(self):
         for url in self.start_urls:
             meta = {}
-            if self.scraper.render_javascript:
+            if hasattr(self, 'scraper') and self.scraper.render_javascript:
                 meta['splash'] = {
                     'endpoint': 'render.html',
                     'args': {'wait': 0.5}