# \[ANN\] Rassmalog 10.0.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 12, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-10-0-0/125811 "2008-01-12T08:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-10-0-0/125811/1 "2008-01-12T08:31:45Z")
Version 10.0.0 Contents • Caution • Improvements • Repairs • Usability This release improves usability, adds support for multiple feeds, and adds an official user guide. Furthermore, the project mailing list, forums, and bug / patches / request trackers have been replaced with a new support & feeback system: just send the author (me) an e-mail! Simpler, isn’t it? 1 Caution • The GENERATOR object has been renamed to Rassmalog. • The RECENT\_ENTRIES array has been renamed to NEW\_ENTRIES. • The num\_recent\_entries blog configuration parameter has been renamed to new\_entries. 2 Improvements • The “front page” file is now copied as “index.html” (when possible). This eliminates the need to use the ugly HTML META redirect in the front page. • Added the ability to specify multiple RSS feeds for the blog. The user simply adds “feed” commands to their Rakefile to set up a new feed (see the file for an example). □ The FEEDS array keeps track of registered blog feeds. • Added the gen Rake task, which is an alias to the default Rake task. 3 Repairs • The name of an entry and the title of a page were not sent through the text-to-HTML conversion mechanism. • Fix translation of “all entries” in Telugu translation file. • Added a border to the table in config/chapter.erb. 4 Usability • Moved the navigation menu to the bottom of the page. This helps text-mode browsers see the main content of the page without needing to scroll too much. Of course, this change is invisible to users of graphical web browsers —everything appears as it did previously to them. • Remove stupid pre:hover CSS trick, it hinders usability because it hides the fact that the viewport has been truncated until the user hovers their cursor over the element. • Adjust usage of invisible and * * * elements for text-mode browsers. • Move next/prev links beneath tag/archive name—it’s unnoticable when float: right because it’s too close to the navigation menu. • Moved the search box into the navigation menu. It was distracting from the blog name & info up at the top. • The config/format.rb file now inserts a “border=1” attribute on all HTML tables. This greatly improves readability in text-mode web browsers! ---
**Author:** ![snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@snk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snk)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rassmalog-10-0-0/125811/2 "2008-01-12T19:17:46Z")
Whoops, in my rush to make this release, I forgot to insert the standard annnouncement header. Sorry for the confusion. ``` Rassmalog ``` A static blog engine based on YAML, eRuby, and Rake. It transforms blog entries written in Textile or other formatting systems into valid XHTML files that you can view on your computer or upload to your website. ``` http://rassmalog.rubyforge.org ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Version 10.0.0 Contents • Caution • Improvements • Repairs • Usability This release improves usability, adds support for multiple feeds, and adds an official user guide. Furthermore, the project mailing list, forums, and bug / patches / request trackers have been replaced with a new support & feeback system: just send the author (me) an e-mail! Simpler, isn’t it? 1 Caution • The GENERATOR object has been renamed to Rassmalog. • The RECENT\_ENTRIES array has been renamed to NEW\_ENTRIES. • The num\_recent\_entries blog configuration parameter has been renamed to new\_entries. 2 Improvements • The “front page” file is now copied as “index.html” (when possible). This eliminates the need to use the ugly HTML META redirect in the front page. • Added the ability to specify multiple RSS feeds for the blog. The user simply adds “feed” commands to their Rakefile to set up a new feed (see the file for an example). □ The FEEDS array keeps track of registered blog feeds. • Added the gen Rake task, which is an alias to the default Rake task. 3 Repairs • The name of an entry and the title of a page were not sent through the text-to-HTML conversion mechanism. • Fix translation of “all entries” in Telugu translation file. • Added a border to the table in config/chapter.erb. 4 Usability • Moved the navigation menu to the bottom of the page. This helps text-mode browsers see the main content of the page without needing to scroll too much. Of course, this change is invisible to users of graphical web browsers —everything appears as it did previously to them. • Remove stupid pre:hover CSS trick, it hinders usability because it hides the fact that the viewport has been truncated until the user hovers their cursor over the element. • Adjust usage of invisible and * * * elements for text-mode browsers. • Move next/prev links beneath tag/archive name—it’s unnoticable when float: right because it’s too close to the navigation menu. • Moved the search box into the navigation menu. It was distracting from the blog name & info up at the top. • The config/format.rb file now inserts a “border=1” attribute on all HTML tables. This greatly improves readability in text-mode web browsers!