[ANN] Typo 5.2 for Rails 2.2 released

Ruby Apps Typo
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Hello,

We’re very pleased and proud to announce the release of Typo 5.2
“Helmut Newton” for Rails 2.2, the famous blogging engine, 4 months
after our last release.

Typo 5.2 is more than a simple port from Rails 2.0.2 to Rails 2.2,
it’s a major, deep, rewrite of the application. We’ve ditched lot of
code, aiming at stability and performance, dividing Typo’s memory
footprint by 4 on some large blogs.

We’ve also fixed a huge, very huge amount of bugs, too many to be told
here, actually, from functionnal aberrations to security breaches. See
the CHANGLOG for more information.

There are also some new features.

  • A brand new admin, focusing on both efficiency and usability.
  • The new editor, coming with easy to use XHTML quicktags toolbar for
    people who don’t like FCK Editor.
  • Search engine optimization everywhere on your blog. Too much to say
    here.
  • A new theme catalogue, allowing you to browse and download up to
    date themes from your Typo install.
  • Our old code syntax highlighting plugin has been replaced with
    Coderay.
  • Excerpts, that allow you to display on your index something
    completely different as on your article, which won’t appear on your
    RSS feed.
  • Our live search, which was so hype 2 years ago has been
    replaced with a more traditionnal and clearer search engine and left
    as a plugin.

And many more you can read about on the official release note:
http://blog.typosphere.org/2009/01/25/typo-5-2-helmut-newton-for-rails-2-2-released

You can download Typo 5.2 on Rubyforge:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=555
or using the good old gem
Install Typo from sources:
http://wiki.github.com/fdv/typo/install-typo-from-sources
Install with Typo installer:
http://wiki.github.com/fdv/typo/install-typo-with-typo-installer

Once again, thank you to every contributor who made it possible.
Hope you’ll enjoy.

Frédéric and Cyril

Frédéric de Villamil
[email protected] tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337
http://t37.net Typo : http://typosphere.org

2

Awesome work guys. Thanks. I have been using Typo for 6 months
now and I enjoy it more and more.

H
http://www.thinkosphere.com
http://harryseldon.thinkosphere.com

3

I am having an issue upgrading from 5.1.3. I have:

  1. installed the upgraded typo gem
  2. run typo install . in my typo directory
  3. cleared the sessions with rake db:sessions:clear
  4. double checked the migrations have worked with rake db:migrate

The issue I have is this: When I try log in, it tries to navigate to
/admin/settings/update_database. This fails, and the logs contain the
following:

Processing Admin::SettingsController#update_database (for 121.98.143.175
at 2009-02-17 09:04:30) [GET]
Session ID: e70ccad1ea97ae3270cfcc699458d192
Rendering template within layouts/administration
Rendering admin/settings/update_database

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `editor’ for
#User:0xb67c53c4) on line #8 of
app/views/layouts/administration.html.erb:
5:
6: Typo Administration: <%= controller.controller_name
%>
7:
8: <%= javascript_include_tag :fckeditor if current_user.editor == 2
%>
9: <%= javascript_include_tag ‘quicktags’ if current_user.editor == 0
%>
10: <%= stylesheet_link_tag “administration”, “lightbox” %>
11: <%= stylesheet_link_tag “administration_rtl” if (
_(“Localization.rtl”) == “1”) %>

vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in

`method_missing’
app/views/layouts/administration.html.erb:8

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

Cheers,
Jamie

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Jamie Penney wrote:

Processing Admin::SettingsController#update_database (for 121.98.143.175
/>

vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in

`method_missing’
app/views/layouts/administration.html.erb:8

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

The editor field is insert in Typo 5.2

Maybe try a restart of Typo, with delete all cookie and restart rake
db:migrate.

  • Stop Typo
  • rake db:sessions:clear
  • rake db:migrate
  • Start Typo

Maybe you are a old user model in your session or your migration failed.

–
Cyril M.

5

Cyril M. wrote:

The editor field is insert in Typo 5.2

Maybe try a restart of Typo, with delete all cookie and restart rake
db:migrate.

  • Stop Typo
  • rake db:sessions:clear
  • rake db:migrate
  • Start Typo

Maybe you are a old user model in your session or your migration failed.

–
Cyril M.
http://blog.shingara.fr

I have fixed this by installing Typo in a different directory but
pointing to the same database. It re-ran the migrations, which seem to
have worked this time (I sear they ran the first time, but I guess not).
Now running the blog from the original directory works.

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I have done all of these things. I stopped mongrel, clear my sessions
and cookies in my browser, ran rake, restarted mongrel, and the problem
still exists.

Cyril M. wrote:

The editor field is insert in Typo 5.2

Maybe try a restart of Typo, with delete all cookie and restart rake
db:migrate.

  • Stop Typo
  • rake db:sessions:clear
  • rake db:migrate
  • Start Typo

Maybe you are a old user model in your session or your migration failed.

–
Cyril M.
http://blog.shingara.fr