Streamlined

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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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:08:45 GMT

While we’ve been at Rails Edge, we’ve gotten test coverage up over 50% and we expect to be 90+ this week. Go Team!

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Posted by jgehtland Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:31:44 GMT

So, we’ve been heads down doing three things around here lately:

1. Fixing bugs
2. Rolling in your supplied patches
3. Moving Streamlined to be a plugin rather than a generator

We’ve gotten a little too wrapped up in that last one, and as such, have gone dark the last couple of weeks. Pulling our heads out of our butts a little bit, we’re now going to refocus on getting 0.0.6 pushed out here ASAP. Not going to put a date on it, but we’ll be at RailsEdge this week giving a talk on Streamlined and I want to be able to at least demo 0.0.6 for everybody there, so let’s hope soon.

The biggest news for 0.0.6 will be the new look and feel, which finally has the AjaxScaffold integration. Here’s a quick peek.

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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:00:51 GMT

I went back and retrieved old posts from the Google cache, and added them so they appear in the correct order if you go to the site, but they get slammed out to the RSS feed anyway. So, you can safely ignore the last 7 posts on the feed.

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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:37:49 GMT

Just checked into head, will be part of 0.0.6 release this week, if you want to hide a relationship from the views, you can use:

Synonyms you can use for the :off value:

This also fixes Ticket #66.

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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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Posted by jgehtland Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:26:30 GMT

I just updated from Typo 2.6 to Typo 4.0 and have lost all the content from the blog. Yuck. I’m going to try to get it all back from the backups, but that might take a little time. In the meanwhile, don’t panic if you are looking for the archives. They’re coming back. I hope.

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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:50:53 GMT

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks around here, so I wanted to catch everybody up on what’s going on.

First, we’ve got RubyConf coming up in a week, and we’ll be giving a presentation on Streamlined there. We’re going to post a bunch next week in advance of that, talking about current state, upcoming features, and asking for input on some ideas we are having.

Second, we’ll be spending this weekend catching up on tickets posted and bugs reported over the last two weeks. Look for more posts, and commits to the trunk, over the weekend to address what’s been discovered since 0.0.5 was released.

Finally, we’d like to just thank everybody who continues to use Streamlined and post your thoughts, experiences, and complaints to us. You guys are great!

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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:53:22 GMT

Starting with 0.0.6 (or svn head right now): details here.

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Posted by jgehtland Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:54:37 GMT

Yikes. So, I’ve been in Canada all weekend at a conference, and my hard drive had a catastrophic failure. I’ve been fighting it ever since, hence the extra two days to get the build up. We’ve had to remove two features from this build due to lost work: Lightbox support (as an alternate to Prototype Windows) and Bill Katz’s Authorization plugin (we’ll release an 0.0.6 ASAP with just that in it).

That being said, here’s what’s in 0.0.5:

• Better error messages. We’re now dropping notes into the logs and on screen that tell you what happened as much as possible (no such relationship, no such type, Sparklines not installed, etc.). If you have a weird problem, check the log for anything that starts with “STREAMLINED”.
• New relationship syntax. Don’t worry, the original syntax still works, but for all new models, use the new syntax. It looks like this: relationship :line_items, :view => {:name => :membership}, :summary => {:name => :list, :fields => [:customer, :amount]}
• Sparklines Integration. This one requires RMagick to be installed and will try to tell you if it isn’t. It also requires you to install the Sparklines plugin to the app before you run it. The only graph we’ve implemented so far is a pie chart of the ratio of items associated to the total number of possible items. Here’s the syntax example: relationship :line_items, :summary => {:name => :graph, :type => :pie}
• Optional pagination. There is a generator flag (—no-pagination) that will turn pagination off by default. Regardless of which you choose (on or off) you can override it in the _ui file. class line_item_ui < Streamlined::UI pagination true # or false end
• Uses Rails’ model generators. If Streamlined tries to create a model class for you, it will use Rails’ model generator instead of the custom one previously provided. The models will now have unit and functional tests, etc.
• Overlib integration. You simply specify one or more columns on your class as popup_columns, and fill in the body of _popup.html to display the appropriate information. Example: class LineItemUI << Streamlined_UI.rhtml popup_columns :name, :total end
• acts_as_authenticated. If you choose this option (—authentication=AAA), Streamlined will attempt to install the plugin from the remote repository. It will then run the generator, which will create a model (user), a controller (account), and some login/logout views under app/views/account/. It will also create a migration for User, and one to add a default user (username=admin, password=admin). Make sure to run them before launching the app.

We’ll document all this much more thoroughly in the morning, but if you are just too anxious, you can get it now and hope these docs are enough.

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