Brainspl.at

Merb 0.0.8 released

Posted by ezmobius Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:49:00 GMT

I am happy to announce the release of Merb 0.0.8. This release is a huge improvement over the last release. There are too many changes to list. So here are some highlights:

* Performance optimization of mime parsing.
* Refactoring of entire codebase. 
* reorganize layout of source files.
* Added GlobaleHelper that all view can use. 
* Helpers named after the current controller will be available in the view as well as global helper.
* Added support for returning an IO stream from your controller.
* Merb::SimpleModel is a transactional yaml storage for smaller projects.
* Cleaned up the app_skeleton, it is now up to date.
* Added Merb::Const module to incapsulate constants
* Added HTTP status codes module
* Optimized and improved the ViewContext object
* Added rails session parasite mode
* Added new improved ActivceRecord session store. much faster
* Added Request object to encapsulate all helpers that use the headers to grab info
* Added merb_upload_hanlder for upload progress.
* Added merb_upload_progress class. if only one merb is being run then it will just load the upload prgress class in memory. When more then one merb is run, merb has a drb server that gets started and holds the state for the upload progress meter.
* Added merb_exceptions for custom, exceptions
* Added Kernel#aquire, like require on steroids with glob
* Huge improvements in the before/after filter code
* Added after filter capability to Merb::Controller.

I am working on a tutorial that I will post this weekend as a quick primer to getting started with Merb. The rdoc is improved though now and has some good information. The new implementation of befopre and after filters is really sweet too.

sudo gem install merb

rdoc: http://merb.rubyforge.org