Streamlined

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:

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:

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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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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