awesome, can't wait to try it out. 2010/3/22 Martin Gamsjaeger <[email protected]>: > Yay! > > So cool! Huge congratz to you guys for finally pulling it off! There > have been times that I thought that the world won't ever see a > merb-1.1 :P > > Congratz and thx to everyone involved! > > cheers > snusnu > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 22:15, Jonathan Stott <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Merb 1.1 "Black Hole" >> ===================== >> >> So, it's finally here. After taking longer than it probably should have done, >> I'm pleased to announce the gems for merb 1.1.0 have been cut. They should be >> appearing on rubygems.org soon. Merb 1.1 brings a lot of changes, but >> hopefully >> most of them shouldn't be too noticeable, as they're fixing bugs. That having >> been said, there have been some breaking changes with regards to merb 1.0, >> which >> will be explained later. >> >> >> New Features >> ------------ >> >> * Ruby 1.9 support. The big one. Merb now runs on ruby 1.9.1. This mandated >> some >> small changes to the internals as well as some changes to the specs. >> However, >> it shouldn't require any changes in your app level code, or at least the >> merb >> specific parts of your app level code. >> >> * Dependency handling with bundler[1]. This is a breaking change. But it >> should be for the better. Bundler replaces the previous dependencies.rb >> with a >> Gemfile. It also replaces the Thor tasks for freezing gems. The Gemfile is >> used to work out dependencies before any code is required. This avoids much >> of >> the dependency hell. >> >> * Unicorns! Merb is now better behaved as a rack app and works with a >> config.ru >> file[2]. This change should make working with whatever is the latest and >> greatest ruby webserver a lot easier. >> >> * mongoid[3] support for merb-auth-more's SaltedUser class. Thanks to anvar >> for >> the patch. >> >> * asset timestamping for static assets. This appends a short query string to >> static assets, allowing long cache expiry times to be set. Thanks for pavel >> for this patch. >> >> * Bugfixes. So many bug fixes. As part of the release process we've done our >> best to clear out many of the bugs which have been gathering dust over the >> past year. Some do still remain, but those generally require a more complex >> solution which needs some thought. >> >> >> Dependency handling using Bundler >> --------------------------------- >> >> In this version we dropped the old way of loading dependencies using the >> Kernel >> extensions and started to use Bundler for dependency management. This allows >> us to move the whole dependency handling and gem management outside the >> Merb. Therefore we can simplify some internals and remove some of the Kernel >> monkey patching: >> >> The old Kernel.dependency and Kernel.dependencies will only 'require >> gem_name' or 'require require_as' when you call these methods. They will >> loudly >> inform you of the fact via depreciation warnings too. If you see the warning, >> you should move your dependency to the Gemfile. >> >> Also methods: use_orm, use_test, use_testing_framework and >> use_template_engine >> DON'T require any gems now, you must add them as dependencies in the Gemfile. >> >> Merb generators was changed to generate you Gemfile for your application and >> settings instead of the dependencies.rb. >> >> So what still works? Almost everything except it doesn't defer to the Merb >> start and doesn't load exact version of gem if more versions are installed: >> >> dependency "json" => works >> dependency "rspec", :require_as => 'spec' => works try to require 'spec' >> dependency "json", '1.1.6' => works unless you have >> >= 1.1.6 installed >> dependency "json" { } => works but doesn't yield >> >> For more information, check the wiki[4]. >> >> >> Bug fixes >> --------- >> >> * [merb-assets] #859 Merb can append timestamps to static assets >> * [merb-core] #1040 Allow using <%== %> escaped version of <%= %> >> * [merb-core] #1068 Correctly handle HEAD requests (This requires manual >> alteration of rack.rb) >> * [merb-core] #1174 Merb::Config[:use_mutex] issue >> * [merb-helpers] #1212 Merb::Helpers::Form::Builder Base#options doesn't >> convert >> 'sel' to string before comparing to string >> * [merb-core] #1258 Sessions could be overwritten under certain (rare) >> situations. >> * [merb-core] #1288 Fix for run_later in clusters >> * [merb-core] #1298 Fix potential timing attack on cookie sessions. >> * [merb-core] #1304 Multipart input parsing produces wrong checkbox input >> * [merb-core] #1310 Prevent mongrel bloat when streaming files >> * [merb-core] #1317 Merb now returns correct cookie headers >> * [merb-core] Improvements to handling of conditional validators >> * And more ... checkout the repository[5] and the lighthouse[6]. >> >> >> Thanks >> ------ >> >> Big thanks for this release have to go to Pavel Kunc[7]. Without him driving >> it >> forward, it probably wouldn't have happened. Additional thanks go to: >> >> Jacques Crocker (merbjedi) >> Martin Gamsjaeger (snusnu) >> Jonathan Stott (namelessjon) >> >> And to anyone who submitted bug reports, with or without patches. >> >> >> For the future >> -------------- >> >> We're still not entirely sure about merb's future, beyond that we intend it >> to >> have one! However, these are some of the things we're considering for future >> releases: >> >> * Better rack behaviour. This includes removal of the old server adapters and >> use of a config.ru file by default. >> >> * Removal of merb clustering from the core. This probably shouldn't have >> been in >> the core in the first place. There are more robust solutions out there such >> as >> unicorn[8], rainbows[9] and passenger[10]. Plus, of course, a merb-cluster >> gem >> would not be out of the question. >> >> * merging in of benschwarz's improvements to merb-cache[11]. These bring more >> robust behaviour to merb-cache, but should be transparent to you as a >> developer on merb. >> >> >> I hope the new release works for you as well as it does for us. If it >> doesn't, >> please let us know! >> >> >> [1] http://github.com/carlhuda/bundler >> [2] http://wiki.github.com/merb/merb/howto-use-unicorn >> [3] http://github.com/durran/mongoid >> [4] http://wiki.github.com/merb/merb/howto-using-the-bundler >> [5] http://github.com/merb/merb >> [6] https://merb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/7433-merb/ >> [7] http://github.com/pk >> [8] http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ >> [9] http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/ >> [10] http://www.modrails.com/ >> [11] http://github.com/benschwarz/merb-cache >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "merb" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "merb" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en. > >
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