RubyFrontier 1.1 Released

aris · September 13, 2012, 7:25pm

RubyFrontier 1.1 puts its foot into strange waters by attempting to be
compatible with Ruby 1.9.3 (after a lifetime of living solely in 1.8.6
and 1.8.7).

RubyFrontier is a TextMate bundle, implementing a template-based system
of building Web pages and (especially) Web sites in a highly automated
manner. It generates static Web pages; it isn’t a Web application
framework. Its purpose is to make Web sites a convenient writing tool,
separating form from content (you concentrate on content, and
RubyFrontier wraps up that content into Web page form when you build the
site). RubyFrontier is excellent for heavily hyperlinked pages and for
automatic generation of navigation structures such as breadcrumbs,
next-prev links, etc. The system is modeled in the first instance after
UserLand Frontier’s html suite, which I documented in my Frontier book.

Commit notes:

github.com/mattneub/RubyFrontier

Release 1.1, introducing Ruby 1.9.3 support!

committed 02:50AM - 13 Sep 12 UTC

mattneub

+138 -87

All tests pass, and the built documentation is identical in Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.3…. However, a lot of tweaking took place, so use caution. Be prepared to encounter and report issues. If this is a problem, please use an earlier commit. * The exifr gem is no longer used, and internal code for measuring the size of other image types has been removed. We now depend on the dimensions gem for all image sizes. * Numerous regex matches that were really just ways of detecting whether a string starts or ends with a certain substring have been replaced by start_with? and end_with? * Uses of to_a on a single-line string as a silly way to ensure an array have been replaced by Array(). * Pathname now implements to_str explicitly, to make up for the fact that it was taken away in Ruby 1.9.2. Ideally I'd like to eliminate all cases of implicit Pathname-to-String coercion; then this can be removed. * Pathname.relative_uri_from attempts to work around a curious 1.9.x change of output from URI::Generic.route_from, on which it depends. Added a test for this edge case. * Vastly improved our message/exception reporting routines. The require is brought to top level. In our stdout diverter, implemented flush, as Ruby 1.9.3 expects it. Much better behavior when there's an exception; at last exceptions containing <...> expressions will be legible! (I wondered what that lone "#" meant, but I didn't grasp that it was my own darned fault.) * Altered one test to take account of changed structure of YAML library in Ruby 1.9.3; this is the only place in the code where I have to test for the RUBY_VERSION. Rename one badly named test. Rewrote some requires, as "." is no longer in $: in Ruby 1.9.3.

I would like to thank Sam S. for creating rbenv:

Without rbenv I would never in a million years have been able to do
this. It was so easy to install and try Ruby 1.9.3, safe in the
knowledge that there were no hacks, that all my Ruby 1.9.3 stuff was
confined to one directory, and that the original state of things could
be restored simply and easily at any time.

It is particularly fun swapping out Ruby versions with TextMate sitting
there open. I can run a script under Ruby 1.8.7 and then again under
Ruby 1.9.3 an instant later, without closing or reconfiguring TextMate.
It JUST WORKS. So cool. So easy. So elegant.

m.

n1ghtshade3 · September 18, 2012, 5:22pm

Nice work Matt. That’s pretty cool.

n1ghtshade3 · January 22, 2013, 3:26pm

Hello List :
I used UserLand Frontier years ago to set up a web site. Going back
recently to refresh my memory I was delighted to find RubyFrontier.

I’ve downloaded the bundle and have tried it with Ruby 1.9.2, which
failed and then with
Ruby 1.8.7 which produced similar errors. I attach the errors.

I would appreciate any advice on how to track these problems down.
Regards : Hubert W.
France

n1ghtshade3 · January 22, 2013, 5:29pm

Hubert W. wrote in post #1093163:

Hello List :
I used UserLand Frontier years ago to set up a web site. Going back
recently to refresh my memory I was delighted to find RubyFrontier.

I’ve downloaded the bundle and have tried it with Ruby 1.9.2, which
failed and then with
Ruby 1.8.7 which produced similar errors. I attach the errors.

I would appreciate any advice on how to track these problems down.
Regards : Hubert W.
France

Further :
I’ve installed xcode command line tools and Ruby 1.9.3
No hitches during install.

Pages 1 and 3 still give errors
Further : “Build RubyFrontier Docs” produces an error as well
“uninitialized constant UserLand::Html::PageMaker::Sandbox::Haml
(eval):4:in `pageFilter’” and quite a lot more

n1ghtshade3 · January 22, 2013, 11:24pm

On Jan 22, 2013, at 06:26 , Hubert W. [email protected] wrote:

Hello List :
I used UserLand Frontier years ago to set up a web site. Going back
recently to refresh my memory I was delighted to find RubyFrontier.

I’ve downloaded the bundle and have tried it with Ruby 1.9.2, which
failed and then with
Ruby 1.8.7 which produced similar errors. I attach the errors.

I would appreciate any advice on how to track these problems down.

Please file a ticket with the project website/author.