From: "Marc-André Cournoyer" <macournoyer@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T04:46:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ramaze 0.3.0

This looks awesome Micheal, nice work!

and thanks for adding Thin support in your framework

On 9-Jan-08, at 2:00 PM, Michael Fellinger wrote:

> This time we are proud to announce Version 0.3.0 of Ramaze, the  
> light and
> modular open source web framework.
>
> 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
> new exciting 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.
>
>
> Home page:   http://ramaze.net
> Screencasts: http://ramaze.net/screencasts
>
> View source: http://source.ramaze.net
> Darcsweb:    http://darcs.ramaze.net
>
> IRC: #ramaze on irc.freenode.net
>
>
> Simple example:
>
>  require 'ramaze'
>
>  class MainController
>    def index
>      'Hello, World!'
>    end
>  end
>
>  Ramaze.start
>
>
> Special (alphabetic) thanks go to:
>
> Aman 'tmm1' Gupta      - lots of patches and friendly support
> Antonio Cangiano       - Article: http://tiny.cc/tRLfm
> Carlo Zottmann         - First patch!
> Jonathan 'Kashia' Buch - patches for gettext and Og support
> Pistos                 - PR through awesome screencasts
>
>
> Selected summary of the 118 patches from 0.2.1 to 0.3.0:
>
>  - Specs switched from RSpec to bacon; Ramaze now runs on Ruby 1.9.
>
>  - /lib/proto (pregenerated base source code) updated to a new  
> structure.
>
>  - Oddities in gem version of bin/ramaze fixed (hopefully? :) )
>
>  - Layouts fixed so the method on the right controller is called.
>
>  - contrib/facebook and simple facebook app example added.
>
>  - Lambda router support added to contrib/route.
>
>  - examples/rapaste added.
>
>  - gettext contrib added; localize ramaze via gettext.
>
>  - Adapter for Thin Ruby webserver added.
>
>  - Index files can now be put into public directories and  
> subdirectories.
>
>  - examples/blog switched from Og to Sequel.
>
>  - view/ is now the subdirectory for templates; if not found, Ramaze  
> falls
>    back to template/.
>
>  - Default error pages updated: colour gradient removed; textmate  
> link added;
>    Javascript optimized; CSS tweaked.
>
>  - Templates are no longer searched for in public/.
>
> A complete Changelog is available at
> http://darcs.ramaze.net/ramaze/doc/CHANGELOG
>
>
> Known issues:
>
>  - none yet, waiting for your reports :)
>
>
> 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: Amrita2,  
> Erubis, Haml,
>    Liquid, Markaby, Remarkably and its own engine called Ezamar and  
> (still
>    unofficial) 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
>