# Sinatra 0.9.1 released! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 3, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sinatra-0-9-1-released/161848 "2009-03-03T01:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ryantate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@ryantate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryantate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sinatra-0-9-1-released/161848/1 "2009-03-03T01:36:29Z")
Sinatra 0.9.1 is a feature release. Highlights include support for running on Ruby 1.9.1, a shiny new API for extensions/plugins, and better support for building Rack middleware. This release is backward compatible with 0.9.0 and 0.3.x. gem install sinatra For more information, see: [http://www.sinatrarb.com](http://www.sinatrarb.com) From the CHANGES file: - Sinatra now runs under Ruby 1.9.1 [#61] - Route patterns (splats, :named, or Regexp captures) are now passed as arguments to the block. [#140] - The “helpers” method now takes a variable number of modules along with the normal block syntax. [#133] - New request-level #forward method for middleware components: passes the env to the downstream app and merges the response status, headers, and body into the current context. [#126] - Requests are now automatically forwarded to the downstream app when running as middleware and no matching route is found or all routes pass. - New simple API for extensions/plugins to add DSL-level and request-level methods. Use Sinatra.register(mixin) to extend the DSL with all public methods defined in the mixin module; use Sinatra.helpers(mixin) to make all public methods defined in the mixin module available at the request level. [#138] See [Sinatra: Writing Extensions](http://www.sinatrarb.com/extensions.html) for details. - Named parameters in routes now capture the “.” character. This makes routes like “/:path/:filename” match against requests like “/foo/bar.txt”; in this case, “params[:filename]” is “bar.txt”. Previously, the route would not match at all. - Added request-level “redirect back” to redirect to the referring URL. - Added a new “clean\_trace” option that causes backtraces dumped to rack.errors and displayed on the development error page to omit framework and core library backtrace lines. The option is enabled by default. [#77] - The ERB output buffer is now available to helpers via the @\_out\_buf instance variable. - It’s now much easier to test sessions in unit tests by passing a “:session” option to any of the mock request methods. e.g., get ‘/’, {}, :session =\> { ‘foo’ =\> ‘bar’ } - The testing framework specific files (‘sinatra/test/spec’, ‘sinatra/test/bacon’, ‘sinatra/test/rspec’, etc.) have been deprecated. See [Testing Sinatra with Rack::Test](http://sinatrarb.com/testing.html) for instructions on setting up a testing environment with these frameworks. - The request-level #send\_data method from Sinatra 0.3.3 has been added for compatibility but is deprecated. - Fix :provides causing crash on any request when request has no Accept header [#139] - Fix that ERB templates were evaluated twice per “erb” call. - Fix app-level middleware not being run when the Sinatra application is run as middleware. - Fixed some issues with running under Rack’s CGI handler caused by writing informational stuff to stdout. - Fixed that reloading was sometimes enabled when starting from a rackup file [#110] - Fixed that “.” in route patterns erroneously matched any character instead of a literal “.”. [#124] All together, a little over 60 tickets were filed away in lighthouse, making this one of the most active releases to date: [Lighthouse - Beautifully Simple Issue Tracking](http://sinatra.lighthouseapp.com/projects/9779/tickets/bins/14820) Commit history: [Commits · sinatra/sinatra · GitHub](http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commits/0.9.1) A large amount of energy was spent on documentation. Sinatra’s website was shuffled around a bit and we’ve begun documenting… everything. Here’s the first fruits of that labor: [Sinatra: Documentation](http://www.sinatrarb.com/documentation.html) [Sinatra: Configuring Settings](http://www.sinatrarb.com/configuration.html) [Testing Sinatra with Rack::Test](http://www.sinatrarb.com/testing.html) [Sinatra: Writing Extensions](http://www.sinatrarb.com/extensions.html) These people contributed code and/or doc patches to this release: Ryan Tomayko (133), Simon R. (44), Blake Mizerany (33), Markus P. (7), Nicolas Sanguinetti (4), Karel Minarik (4), raggi (2), Brandon Dimcheff (2), Harry Vanberg (2), Neal Lindsay (2), Kevin F. (2), Jon Maddox (2), Scott Wisely (2), Widi Harsojo (1), Sam R. (1), S. Brent Faulkner (1), Pat N. (1), Matias Käkelä (1), Julio Capote (1), Devlin D. (1), Aupajo (1), Andreas Haller (1), zapnap (1), foca (1), beenimble (1), Victor Igumnov (1), Brian Deterling (1), and Chris Schneider (1). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ryantate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@ryantate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryantate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sinatra-0-9-1-released/161848/2 "2009-03-03T02:19:10Z")
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Ryan T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > (1), S. Brent Faulkner (1), Pat N. (1), Matias Käkelä (1), Julio > Capote (1), Devlin D. (1), Aupajo (1), Andreas Haller (1), zapnap > (1), foca (1), beenimble (1), Victor Igumnov (1), Brian Deterling (1), > and Chris Schneider (1). Thanks! Thanks to all these folks. Sinatra rocks solid, and is a ton of fun to use. -greg