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Hobo 0.4.1 released
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Tom | January 17, 2007 comments 4 Responses

This release contains a variety of fixes and enhancements. One notable feature is support for RPC style “web-methods”. This gives you an easy way to expose methods on your model classes that don’t fit neatly into the REST/CRUD paradigm, e.g. reset_password. For the full low-down, see the change-log

Tom on Hobo on Ruby on Rails in Canada and London
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Tom | January 15, 2007 comments One Response

Just thought I’d let you know there are going to be a couple of opportunities to see me rambling on about Hobo. One soon and local, the other not so much.

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Hobo development site
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Tom | January 8, 2007 comments 4 Responses

It’s really tremendous news that we’re starting to get a bit of a community feel going. We’ve had a fix for sqlite, a little rakefile contributed to handle rdoc, plus some syntax fixes for that. We’ve had the first proper code contribution from simondo. And we’ve even had our first discussion thread where the question answerer was not me :-) Not to mention a ton of ideas and suggestions. A very big thank-you indeed to you all!

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Putting Hobo through its paces
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Tom | January 5, 2007 comments 8 Responses

To many balls in the air at once, that’s my problem. There’s Hobo the open source project — keeping updates flowing, responding to problems you folks are hitting, documentation, and on and on and on. Then there’s paying the rent, and right now that means working on a least two, maybe three or four commercial web-sites. The good news is that all of these projects are being built using Hobo, so I’m getting to put Hobo through its paces and I’m really enjoying what I’m seeing.

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