# Ramaze 2008.06 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 11, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-2008-06/140147 "2008-06-11T11:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-2008-06/140147/1 "2008-06-11T11:39:53Z")
This time we are proud to announce Version 2008.06 of Ramaze, the light and modular open source web framework. This release features a lot of work directly from our community and we are really greatful for everybody who helped in testing, patching and contributing exciting new features. Our extensive set of specs and docs now covers almost every detail of implementation and usage. Ramaze is under development by a growing community and in production use at companies. Home page: [http://ramaze.net](http://ramaze.net) Screencasts: [http://ramaze.net/screencasts](http://ramaze.net/screencasts) View source: [http://source.ramaze.net](http://source.ramaze.net) Github: [GitHub - manveru/ramaze: This repository moved to http://github.com/Ramaze/ramaze](http://github.com/manveru/ramaze) Git clone: git://github.com/manveru/ramaze Current tarball: [http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tarball/master](http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tarball/master) IRC: #ramaze on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net) Simple example: require ‘ramaze’ class MainController def index ‘Hello, World!’ end end Ramaze.start This is a special release, and the first of the upcoming new series of monthly releases. As you may have noticed, Ramaze has changed to a date base versioning system, although this means that people who have waited for a 1.0 for the past years may be disappointed it provides much larger flexibility in detecting new versions and comparing them with nightly builds. Another change is the switch from darcs to git and moving our primary repository to github. There have been serious performance issues regarding darcs as Ramaze gathered a longer history, using git allows us to move on at a faster pace again. Please regard this release as a major step from the previous one, over 450 patches have been applied and there were changes in the internal API. We are unable to nicely summarize these changes, so this release will not have a list of the most important ones, if you are concerned about a specific area feel free to ask on the Mailing list or stop by on IRC. Special (alphabetic) thanks go to: Aman ‘tmm1’ Gupta - Tons of patches, support andy - Cleanup Ara T. Howard - Tagz templating engine Clive Crous - Patches, cleanup evaryont - Patches for identity helper James T. - OSX compatibility, cleanup and fixes Jonathan ‘Kashia’ Buch - Patches, support and the first ramaze paper Keita Y. - Much work on the benchmark suite Leo Borisenko - Fix for SourceReload on windows Pistos - Mathetes, patches and lots of friendly support Riku Räisäenen - Patches for scaffolding example Ryan Grove - Various fixes and patches Sam Carr - Patches and action matching speedup Thomas L. - Patches for identity helper Wang Jinjing - patches, 1.9/1.8.7 compatibility A complete Changelog is available at [http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true](http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true) Known issues: - none yet, waiting for your reports 🙂 Ramaze Features: - Builds on top of the Rack library, which provides easy use of adapters like Mongrel, WEBrick, LiteSpeed, Thin, CGI or FCGI. - Supports a wide range of templating-engines like: Amrita2, Erubis, Haml, Liquid, Markaby, Remarkably and its own engine called Ezamar and (still unofficial) Nagoro. - Highly modular structure: you can just use the parts you like. This also means that it’s very simple to add your own customizations. - A variety of helpers is already available, giving you things like advanced caching, OpenID-authentication or aspect-oriented programming for your controllers. - It is possible to use the ORM you like, be it Sequel, DataMapper, ActiveRecord, Og, Kansas or something more simplistic like DBI, or a wrapper around YAML::Store. - Good documentation: although we don’t have 100% documentation right now (dcov says around 75%), just about every part of Ramaze is covered with basic and advanced docs. There are a variety of examples, screencasts and a tutorial available. - Friendly community: there are people from all over the world using Ramaze, so you can get almost instant help and info. For more information please come to [http://ramaze.net](http://ramaze.net) or ask directly on IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/#ramaze Thank you, Michael ‘manveru’ Fellinger and the Ramaze community ---
**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-2008-06/140147/2 "2008-06-11T17:22:40Z")
Michael F. wrote: > Sweet! Thanks to the Ramazers for such great work.