Posted by Tom | December 10, 2008
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Just had time to dash this off before heading out. I’ve already said a thank you to the team at Barquin, so I better not forget others who’ve helped out along the way!
Many thanks to Dr Nic for the early work in getting Hobo running as a gem, and for those super cool TextMate tricks. And to Mathijs and Matt for many fixes and tweaks here and there. And of course Mr. James Garlick for a ton of commits in all areas of Hobo, contributions to the docs, and for making Hobo look good both on the outside (the Clean theme) and the inside (James is my API aesthetics consultant!)
Also a shout to Jason and Joel over at i5labs. These guys helped me out with a Hobo project that I got too busy to finish. If anyone out there needs development or help with a Hobo project, drop i5labs a line – they know what they’re doing.
Also thanks to Pete Ferne and the boys at Jiva, for choosing Hobo for Beanbag, and for the many contributions to Hobo which they funded. I am going to do a proper post about Beanbag at some point – promise!
Finally a big thanks to everyone in the wider Hobo community for their involvement, large or small.
Merry Christmas — or whatever you will be celebrating — to all!
Posted by Tom | December 9, 2008
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I’ve just released Hobo 0.8.5. There was a problem with running Hobo as a gem which slipped into the short-lived 0.8.4 release. A few more fixes made it in to this release too, mostly in the new permissions system.
See the changes for the details. As always, remember that Rubyforge takes a good while to catch up, so gem update hobo might not work for a while. You can download the gem files from Rubyforge manually though.
That’s pretty much me done for the year — I’m taking some time off now. And what a year it’s been. Progress has accelerated dramatically since our sponsors Barquin International came on board. We wouldn’t be remotely close to where we are now, especially in terms of documentation, without their support. So I’d like to say a very big thank you to Owen and the team over at Barquin.
It feels like we’re in great shape for a very exciting 2009 with Hobo. Just in time for the meltdown of the entire global economy. Heh – you win some you lose some : )
Posted by Tom | December 6, 2008
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Hobo 0.8.4 is out of the door. Score! Could you ask for more? Rest assured there is plenty more in store.
In addition to the usual slew of small improvements, the main features of this release are:
- Completely new and much improved permission system
- Not completely new but much improved lifecycles
- The beginnings of a new “View Hints” system — a place to declare things that don’t belong in the model, but help Rapid create the right UI.
Yes those two links are to detailed documentation – wonders will never cease!
Please note that Hobo 0.8.4 requires Rails 2.2.2.See the changes for the details. Please remember that Rubyforge takes a good while to get with the program, so gem update hobo might not work for a while. You can download the gem files from Rubyforge manually though.In other news the Hobo Cookbook continues to outgrow its name and is now the home of the Agility tutorial.
Enjoy!
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