0.0.7 (the plugin version) released!

Posted by jgehtland Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:06:36 GMT

Effective immediately, the plugin version of Streamlined is available. You can get it by issuing the following command from inside your Rails app:

> script/plugin install http://streamlinedframework.org:8079/streamlined/plugins/streamlined

Once it has installed, be sure to read /vendor/plugins/streamlined/README for instructions on how to get it running with your application.

We’re releasing right now with some known todo items: mainly, all the rake tasks that are referenced in the README and in the various default partials have not been included yet. We’ll be releasing those over the next few hours and days, and you can always update to the latest version by issuing this command:

> script/plugin update http://streamlinedframework.org:8079/streamlined/plugins/streamlined

We hope some of you will take a look and start giving us feedback on whether or not this is better than the generator version (we think so, for a whole variety of reasons, but your opinions on that front are more important than ours).

We’re looking forward to your feedback, and to now being able to roll changes out faster than ever before because of the ease of upgrading with the plugin.

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0.0.6.1

Posted by jgehtland Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:15:00 GMT

We got some great feedback over the last couple of days on the 0.0.5->0.0.6 upgrade path. We’re going to release 0.0.6.1 with those changes sometime over the weekend for folks who don’t want to upgrade to the plugin style in 0.0.7.

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0.0.6 and Rails 1.1.6

Posted by jgehtland Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:59:20 GMT

One of our (very helpful) users asked the question on the mailing list: “You say 0.0.6 is Rails 1.2 compliant, but is it backward compliant with Rails 1.1.6?”

The simple answer is “no”. But the just slightly less simple answer is: here’s what to do about it.

Open /vendor/plugins/relevance_extensions/init.rb and comment out the line that reads:

Dependencies.load_paths.unshift("#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/streamlined")

Then, open up /vendor/plugins/relevance_extensions/lib/streamlined_controller.rb, and uncomment the two lines:

# require_dependencies :ui, Dir["#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/streamlined/*.rb"].collect {|f| f.gsub(".rb", "")} # depend_on :ui, Dir["#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/streamlined/*.rb"].collect {|f| f.gsub(".rb", "")}

That’s it! The rest is all compliant in both releases.

Finally, if you are going to run it in Firefox 2.0, there is a bug in Prototype. You can monkeypatch it Add the following at line 865:

// patched as suggested in http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6579 for (var name in headers) { if (typeof(headers[name]) != 'function') { this.transport.setRequestHeader(name, headers[name]); } }

We’ve submitted that patch back to Prototype, and are waiting to hear if it gets adopted. Without this patch, everything still works fine in IE, Safari and Firefox 1.5 (and, yes, Opera). Only Firefox 2.0 seems to be affected.

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Release 0.0.6 and 0.0.7

Posted by jgehtland Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:07:47 GMT

Ok, so we’ve been dark here on the blog for a while, but that is all about to change.

First, we are announcing the immediate release of Streamlined 0.0.6. This version has some bug fixes, the AjaxScaffold style, and is Rails 1.2 compliant. There are two gotchas:

  1. We aren’t sure how the upgrade will work for everybody, so we’re asking for community help on that front.
  2. Version 0.0.7 is a different architecture, so you might want to skip straight to it.

On the first topic, anybody who wants to go ahead and upgrade, try it on a copy of your project first and get in touch with us with any difficulties you encounter. We’d love it if somebody tried this out, figured out what gotchas there are (if any) and wrote a rake task to commit back to the project to make those gotchas disappear. Over on the mailing list, we’ve seen a bunch of requests on how to help out; this would be a really great place to start. We’ll be as responsive as we can be to upgrade issues—please use the comments here or the mailing list to let us know if anything goes wrong.

0.0.7

On the second topic, version 0.0.7 will no longer be a generator. Version 0.0.7 is a plugin, which is going to solve a bunch of problems for us (and you, we hope). The first is that upgrading will be even simpler (just run script/plugin update). The second is that all the problems we had with controllers, modules and namespaces will go away because you no longer derive your controllers from StreamlinedController. Instead, you can turn any controller into a Streamlined one using acts_as_streamlined. The third major benefit is cleanliness; we won’t clutter up the app with any extra files or folders upon install. Everything will be localized in the plugin folder.

We’re really excited about 0.0.7. We’re just finishing up the testing on it before we release it. When we do, we’re going to ask for input from the community again, this time to help folks transition from the generator style to the plugin style.

On top of all that, as soon as we release 0.0.7, we’ll also switch from Collaboa to Trac. We’ll update all the links. We’re going to do our best to get all the tickets moved over from Collaboa, but if you have one or more tickets of particular interest to you, you might want to keep an eye on the new site and make sure we got the one you are interested in.

One of the primary reasons to move to Trac is to make it easier for us to accept patches from you folks and start integrating your work into the project. So, help us out as we move forward by telling us if something is keeping you from either using Streamlined or contributing. We want to get it fixed.

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Tickets and Mailing Lists

Posted by jgehtland Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:39:03 GMT

We’ve just gone through and caught up completely on the mailing list and the tickets in Collaboa. Some of you will have received personal emails about your tickets, in addition to us filing our responses in Collaboa itself. Others of you have probably received emails from the Google Group.

If you are interested in the tickets, we’ve categorized all the open ones by what release we plan to address it in. There’s a lot there for 0.0.6, and we’re planning out ahead to 0.1.0.

I’m personally off to RubyConf this Friday and will be giving the Streamlined talk on Sunday morning. Now that I understand the schedule, I feel much better about my talk there. I thought I was going to have to fill three hours, but was recently reminded that its a shared track format; just one hour for me. So, no worries, folks, I won’t be cramming three hours of material into 60 minutes. Though I’ll still talk too fast; that’s just how I roll.

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