# Ramaze version 0.2.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-version-0-2-0/120668>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-version-0-2-0/120668 "2007-11-19T17:28:07Z")\
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**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:** [November 19, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-version-0-2-0/120668/1 "2007-11-19T17:28:07Z")

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This time we are proud to announce Version 0.2.0 of the Ramaze  
framework, a  
light and modular open source web framework.

This release features a lot of work directly from our community and i am  
really  
greatful for everybody who helped in testing, patching and contributing  
new  
exciting features.

An extensive set of specs and docs is covering almost every detail of  
the  
implementation and usage. It is under development by a growing community  
and in  
production-use at companies.

Special (alphabetic) thanks go to:

Aman ‘tmm1’ Gupta - tons of patches, specs and support  
Jonathan ‘Kashia’ Buch - patches for localization  
Riku Räisänen - as usual, extensive testing  
Pistos - submitted his first patch  
Stephan M. - XSLT templating, implementation, specs and  
examples

Home page: [http://ramaze.rubyforge.org](http://ramaze.rubyforge.org)  
IRC: #ramaze on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net)

Short summary of changes from 0.1.4 to 0.2.0:

- Contrib facility, for simple experimental user-contributions

- Routes

- As always, lots of bugfixes

- complete XSLT templating system, usage and specs

- Improved localization filter

- Added gzip filter

- Support for the new upcoming nagoro templating engine.

- Tool::Tidy is gone for good

A complete Changelog is available at  
[http://manveru.net/ramaze/doc/CHANGELOG](http://manveru.net/ramaze/doc/CHANGELOG)

Known issues:

- none yet, waiting for your reports 🙂

Features:

- Builds on top of the Rack library, which provides easy use of  
adapters like  
Mongrel, WEBrick, CGI or FCGI.

- Supports a wide range of templating-engines like:  
Amrita2, Erubis, Haml, Liquid, Markaby, Remarkably and its own  
engine  
called Ezamar.

- 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 ActiveRecord, Og,  
Kansas or  
something more simplistic like a wrapper around YAML::Store.

- Good documentation: although we don’t have 100% (dcov says around  
75%)  
documentation right now, just about every part of Ramaze is  
covered with  
basic and advanced docs.  
There are a variety of examples and a tutorial available.

- Friendly community: lastly, but still quite important, 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.rubyforge.org](http://ramaze.rubyforge.org) or ask  
directly  
on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#ramaze)

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

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**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:** [November 19, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ramaze-version-0-2-0/120668/2 "2007-11-19T20:41:46Z")

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Michael F. wrote:

> This time we are proud to announce Version 0.2.0 of the Ramaze framework, a  
> light and modular open source web framework.

Sweet!

Great work.

Ramaze rocks.

–  
James B.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally  
for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman  
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)