From: Sandro Paganotti <sandro.paganotti@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T21:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Rucola 0.5 released

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WOW. seems cool !
Thanks !

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just released Rucola 0.5
>
> Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps.
> It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake commands,
> eliminating the need to use XCode for the most common tasks.
>
> Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate controllers,
> window controllers,
> and document-based applications.  It also provides APIs for simplifying
> some of Objective-C's
> ways of doing things.
>
> New in this release:
> Dependency resolver:
> * You can now specify your dependencies in environment.rb and they will
> resolved and vendored in release mode.
>  This applies to gems and any other ruby lib. Because of this agnostic
> system there might still be some edge cases, for this purpose
>  there's the possibility to specify exceptions.
> * In release mode RubyGems will NOT be loaded even if it's required at some
> point. This results in application startup time going from ~3 bounces in the
> dock to ~1.
>
> Deploying:
> * Added rake task for packaging a release build in a dmg
> * Added rake task for uploading via scp, adding others is easy.
> * Added rake task for creating a Sparkle appcast file.
> * Added rake task that looks for textile files in
> ReleaseNotes/AppName_Version and creates HTML for Sparkle.
>
> Others:
> * Added Rucola::FSEvents which is a rubyesque wrapper around FSEvents.
> * Added Rucola::Reloader, which uses Rucola::FSEvents to watch the
> app/controllers path for modifications and reloads the class.
>  In debug mode this will be enabled by default, you can override this
> setting on the `config` of Initializer.
> * Added the Rucola::Log class and an extension to Kernel to access it
> easily. (Manfred Stienstra)
> * Added Rucola::TestCase which is a test case mixin, like the one in Rails,
> which sets up a test case for a controller, defines helper methods and
> creates stubs for all ib_outlets that are defined in the controller.
> * Added support for ruby-debug. If a call is made to Kernel.debugger and
> the RUBYCOCOA_ENV is 'debug', then the ruby-debug library will be required
> and ran.
> * NSImage.imageNamed will also look in app/assets for a given image name.
> * Added a script/console script which will run a irb console with the
> application loaded. (Jelle Helsen)
> * Added a simple model generator, which is simply a subclass of NSObject.
>
> http://rucola.rubyforge.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy
>
>


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