roadmap

ROADMAP.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ For 0.5.0, Tower will include the features below.  It's going to be a rolling li
 
 You are free to contribute any of these features in any order… I'm more of a fan of doing what you want when you want to, as long as it follows some general plan.  I stay motivated and get way more done that way.
 
-> Any features marked with `*` have been started.
+> Any features marked with `*` have been started. Anything in a "Requirement" section is important and not yet implemented. The rest - in "Improvements" - are improvements on already working/implemented functionality (these things may be moved until later).
 
 ## 0.5.0 - Full Featured Release
 
@@ -72,33 +72,42 @@ You are free to contribute any of these features in any order… I'm more of a f
 
 ### 0.4.3 (controllers)
 
+#### Requirements
+
+- error hooks for controllers
+- https helper methods
+- compile assets for s3 so you don't have to include them in your repo
+- get coffeescript working w uglifyjs
+- request timeout if app crash
+
+#### Improvements
+
 - *some sort of `updateAll`|`deleteAll` ​functionality for controllers (array of ids)*
 - *rails like flash messages
 - finish resourceful routes
 - finalize resourceful controller actions (see https://github.com/josevalim/inherited_resources)
 
-##### Server
+**Server**
 
 - ~~update to express 3.0~~
-- add api to get remote ip address
+- ~~add api to get remote ip address~~
 - add api to get [rough] geo from ip address
-- error hooks for controllers
 - better `redirectTo`
 - better `urlFor`
 - test subdomains on heroku/nodejitsu
 - basic controller logging/subscriptions
-- https helper methods
 - namespaced controllers
 - test jsonp
 - integrate clusters and make sure it works on heroku
 - standardize/finish the `URL` object (should be an ember object with computable properties)
 - "api endpoints" documentation
+  - http://railscasts.com/episodes/350-rest-api-versioning
 - some way to cache routes so it doesn't have to iterate through every route for each request.
 - restart server if crashed
   - https://github.com/learnboost/up
   - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9558360/node-js-reliability-for-large-application
 
-##### Client
+**Client**
 
 - better route2ember map
 - better controller scopes
@@ -112,6 +121,9 @@ You are free to contribute any of these features in any order… I'm more of a f
 - convert all `class X` in tower to `.extend`, just javascript
 - for tower development, compile and load client sub-packages to improve workflow.
 - better error reporting w/ coffeescript (`options = bare: true, filename: filePath`)
+- generic file/path extensions
+  - file.matches
+  - file.pattern()
 
 <a name="0.4.4" href="0.4.4"></a>
 
@@ -210,6 +222,7 @@ By this point, the models, views, templates, and controllers should be fairly co
 - http caching methods in the controller
 - redirect helpers at the top level, so you easily write permanent redirects (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046960/how-to-redirect-without-www-using-rails-3-rack)
 - create normalized file/directory api (wrench, pathfinder, findit... need to merge this stuff into one)
+- cloud paas environment variable map
 - handle app config:
   ``` ruby
   config.encoding = "utf-8"

packages/tower-application/server/platform.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# @todo this should normalize the environment variables for different paas providers.
+
+Tower.__defineGetter__ 'isHeroku', ->
+  process.env.TOWER_CLOUD_PLATFORM == 'heroku'
+
+Tower.__defineGetter__ 'isNodejitsu', ->
+  process.env.TOWER_CLOUD_PLATFORM == 'nodejitsu'

packages/tower-support/shared/shared.coffee

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ _.extend Tower,
   config:           {}
   namespaces:       {}
   metadata:         {}
+
   tryRequire: (paths) ->
     paths = _.flatten(paths)
     for path in paths

packages/tower/client.coffee

@@ -29,11 +29,14 @@ require '../tower-controller/client'
 require '../tower-net/client'
 require '../tower-middleware/server'
 
+Tower.pathSeparator = '/'
+Tower.pathRegExp = /\//g
+
 Tower.goTo = (string, params) ->
   # History.pushState(params, params?.title, string)
 
 Tower.joinPath = ->
-  _.args(arguments).join('/')
+  _.args(arguments).join(Tower.pathSeparator)
 
 # compile pattern for location?
 # location = new RegExp(window.location.hostname)

packages/tower/server.coffee

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ _.extend Tower,
   watch: true
   publicCacheDuration: 60 * 1000
   domain: 'localhost'
+  pathSeparator: _path.sep
+  pathRegExp: new RegExp(_.regexpEscape(_path.sep), 'g')
 
   render: (string, options = {}) ->
     Tower.modules.mint.render(options.type, string, options)