This is great news, Tom!
I was wondering if you have any ETA for the next version of Hobo and any idea of what it’ll bring to the table in terms of new features and/or perf improvements.
Thanks!
Hobo Sightings
Posted by Tom | June 2, 2007 11 Responses
Posted by Tom | June 2, 2007 11 Responses
Hi folks, sorry to be a bit quiet of late. Just thought I’d update you with a few bits and bobs from the Hobo world.
There’s been a few interesting sightings of Hobo out there. By now you’ve probably seen Dr Nic’s myconfplan, which uses Hobo. I’ve been meaning to ping some questions over to Dr Nic about the experience of using Hobo in that app, so hopefully that’ll be a blog post soon.
If you’ve paid attention to RailsConf, you may have noticed that a very tiny corner of Hobo — the compact create_table migration syntax — has found it’s way into core Rails. It seems DHH came across the “Sexy Migrations” post on err the blog. Nice!
The guys over at Bugzilla have taken a look at Hobo as one option (of many!) for a new implementation of Bugzilla.
Niko Dittmann will be doing a presentation on Hobo at the German language Rails Konferenz (German language link, here’s the hilarious automatic translation)
Meanwhile I’m hoping to get my proposal accepted for a talk on Hobo at RailsConf Europe.
Behind the scenes things are very busy at Hobo Central. We have a ton of client work on, all of which will be pushing the quality and feature-set of Hobo along in leaps and bounds. And of course, all this professional work puts HoboTech Ltd. on a sound financial footing, so the Hobo project will continue to be very active for the foreseeable future.
Good times!
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Franck - Really not sure about Hobo 0.5.4 at the moment - we’re taking a hard look at cleaning some things up, and also addressing performance. There’ll probably be a bigger than usual gap this time.
Sounds very good. It doesn’t matter that the gap’s bigger if it’s for the better.
I perfectly understand that you don’t want to commit in time for 0.5.4. Though, are we talking days, weeks, months, quarters?
Thanks!
Congratulations!!!
Yep I was “surprised” (read: delighted) when I see things like ‘t.string’ in “my” migrations. What are those?
So they’re Hobo extensions? Cool!
Glad they made it into Rails… So good :)
Is this the venerable Tom Locke that sent 100 letters to 100 companies? ;-)
Hendy — nope :) he’s the guy that beats me in Google :)
Frank - I’d say maybe 4 to 6 weeks, but that’s really just a wild guess.
“…the compact create_table migration syntax — has found it’s way into core Rails…”
Great news! Congrats.
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“Frank - I’d say maybe 4 to 6 weeks, but that’s really just a wild guess.”
This is not a complaint… (maybe a prod :O) but as I’m about to start another two projects that would really love to be hobo’d… I’m wondering how close we are to a 0.6-preX or whatever the new stuff is going to be…
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Paul
i saw a hobo he was in my bin
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Hobo Apps in the Wild
- La Magia
- They Shoot Music
- FaveBot
- Matt Malley
- Dr Nic's MyConfPlan (RIP)
This is really cool! thanks for all your hard work Tom! I’ve gone through the screencasts again and I should say that they thouroughly reward the repeat visitor! :)
I was actually thinking of doing a hobo for dummies type thing that would run off of a configuration file and create a fully functional site. I tend to think hobo has made thnigs that easy. even for occasional ruby/rails dabblers like myself! :)
keep up the good work!