Ramaze 2009.06

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The Ramaze development team is happy to announce version 2009.06 of
Ramaze, the
light and modular open source web framework that tries to stay out of
your way.

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.

There have been too many changes since the last official announcement in
2008.07, so I will only list changes since the last release.

== Metadata

Home page: http://ramaze.net
Wiki: http://wiki.ramaze.net

Repository: GitHub - manveru/ramaze: This repository moved to http://github.com/Ramaze/ramaze

Git clone: git://github.com/manveru/ramaze
Current tarball: http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tarball/master

IRC: #ramaze on irc.freenode.net

Simple example:

require ‘ramaze’

class MainController
def index
‘Hello, World!’
end
end

Ramaze.start

== Around 80 commits since 2009.05

  • Improved bin/ramaze with lots of specs, should work now even on
    windows.
  • Middleware order has been inverted.
  • Support for Webrat out of the box.
  • Fixed MemCache caching and sessions.
  • Removed a whole lot of methods that were marked deprecated.
  • New default Layout helper

== Summarized changes with their respective commits

  • Antti Tuomi

    • Link helper did not set the prefix, added spec and fixed the
      behaviour
      [ af753a0 | bae2b53 | eba4734 ]

  • Michael F. (manveru)

    • Fix bug that made default port/handler break in bin/ramaze [ e6715e1
      ]
    • Remove deprecated methods on Ramaze::Controller, Helper::Cache,
      Helper::Link, and Helper::Auth. Also remove the deprecated methods
      Object#acquire, String#/, and Symbol#/
      [ 272fced | 1e4ac92 | a0a9329 | 68242b3 | 57e7a85 | 31b809a |
      3fc4622 ]
    • The bacon scope :mock was renamed to :rack_test, added shared
      :webrat, so
      you can run your specs with that as well. Also move the
      bacon-specific code
      to ramaze/spec/bacon, prepare for test-framework-agnostic behaviour.
      [ f1a2669 | c12a0a4 | fdde916 ]
    • Fix ordering of middleware [ 508bffc ]
    • Warn and fix the ttl if someone exceeds the maximum ttl allowed by
      MemCache
      [ 3124879 | bc08091 ]
    • Comaptibility with localmemcache 0.4.0 [ 096f051 ]
    • Fixed Cache::Sequel to work with 3.1.0 [ d2c2b85 ]
    • Fix bug with memcache on 1.9, make sure the Etag middleware works on
      it
      [ 21763df | 1d0dff5 ]
    • A little bit of example-usage for Helper::Form#form_select, improve
      by
      allowing :multiple => 10 [ a634582 | de73014 ]
    • Avoid useless iteration and fix ambigous linking in helper/paginate
      [ 6fb74df | 9b73450 ]
    • Respect preset options for port/adapter on ramaze start [ 6efaaaa ]
    • Preserve file permissions during ramaze create [ 3e3bc0a ]
    • Implement and spec the lonely controller rule [ fdfe5b9 | 4dd866b ]
    • Fix “bug” pointed out by druby [ 796627a ]
    • Output to logger in ramaze/setup if Log is available, don’t output
      the
      require exception twice. Avoid infinite recursion when a
      gem name does not match it’s lib name [ b9fa0c4 | 7bc9d65 | e6b4996
      ]
    • Put a notice into config.ru making clear that the handler cannot be
      set
      inside [ b4bad57 ]
    • Some mods to contrib, fix facebook.rb syntax for ruby 1.9 and adding
      Ramaze::AddressableRoute for great profit! [ c7fbf0c | cafe657 ]
    • Don’t write a file to /tmp during the bin/ramaze spec [ eb5e4ef ]

  • Pistos

    • Explicitly state top-level namespace for ::File in config.ru, since
      otherwise it is confused for Rack::File.
      [ 5509950 ]
    • Added Layout helper with specs and documentation
      [ a84f675 | 41ad023 | 4f23d16 ]

  • TJ Vanderpoel (bougyman)

    • Added some specs for ramaze/bin, correcting a require bug already in
      bin/ramaze. [ 8bbb8e8 | 9a3edf3 | 33fa3aa ]

A complete Changelog is available at
http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true

== Known issues

  • Some problems may show up when running the specs, these are mostly
    caused
    by the gem-versions of Rack::Test and Rack, they only affect the specs
    and
    should have no influence on the actual runtime.

== 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: ERB, Erubis, Haml,
    Liquid,
    Maruku, Redcloth, Remarkably, Sass, Tagz, Tenjin. And its own engines
    called
    Etanni, Ezamar, Gestalt, and 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 or ask directly on
IRC
irc://irc.freenode.net/#ramaze

Thank you, Michael ‘manveru’ Fellinger and the Ramaze community