Hobo - the web application builder for Rails

I’m proud to announce that we’ve just released Hobo 1.0RC1 to gemcutter and rubyforge. It’s named 0.9.100 just in case any of you still have old versions of rubygems and don’t want to upgrade.

The fixes came fast and furiously in the last two weeks, and we took the opportunity to make a couple of small API changes before we locked down for 1.0. The biggest change was the removal of the “:dependent => :destroy” magic. Hobo no longer uses “:dependent => :destroy” to determine your primary collection. You will have to add “children” declarations in your viewhints files if you were depending on this behaviour. There’s a new step in the agility tutorial that talks about this. There’s also a new agility chapter for translations.

At this point we’re frozen for 1.0. From now on only critical and documentation and testing bugs will be fixed on our 1.0 branch. I’m also proud to announce that there are currently 0 critical bugs on our bugtracker. I expect you to change that quickly, but it feels pretty good to get it down to 0, even for a brief moment! Unfortunately, the Lighthouse doesn’t contain all of our documentation and testing bugs, because there aren’t many of those on there either.

Matt Jones (al2o3cr) and Tom Locke made significant contributions to this release.

Changelog

Deletions:

• Children must now be specified in the viewhints. Hobo no longer uses the presence of :dependent => :destroy to determine the primary child association.

• The bundles feature of Hobo which never really worked and was never documented has been removed from this release.

• The message “You must activate your account before you can log in. Please check your email.” which used to be added to the flash message when a user has signed up has been removed from hobo_do_signup.

• The fix for #556 means that the migration generator now ignores all models that have a hobo_model declaration but not a fields declaration. If you have any models that do not have a fields declaration (join tables, for example), you may wish to add a blank fields declaration.

Major enhancements:

• Hobo now supports Ruby 1.9.1. Problems have been encountered with Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.4. Rails 2.3.3 and 2.3.5 work fine.

• Hobo has been tested against the new Rails 2.3.5. JRuby users may encounter Rails bug 3497

• Rails 2.2 is still supported for this release. Support for 2.2 may be dropped post-1.0.

• Translations (ie, the ht functions) has now been moved into its own module. To access the translation functions from elsewhere use Hobo::Translations.ht. Alternatively, including the Hobo::Translations module into your class will give you ht as a local instance method. (This is one of the things the hobo_controller declaration does.)

• rake hobo:run_invite_only_generators was added as an alternative to rake hobo:run_standard_generators for those who created their application with the --invite-only flag

• #409 The <editor> tag has been modified to display the to_s representation of the object while in edit mode. The to_html representation is still used in view mode. The editor tag for HTML columns has been modified to remove the heavy sanitizing that was previously performed. HtmlString will sanitize before saving to the database. You need to update your hobo-rapid.js for this fix. Run rake hobo:run_standard_generators or copy the file directly from github

• #296 The migration generator now fully understands HABTM join tables. Note that the “decorated join table” functionality that was deprecated in Rails 2.3 is NOT supported.

• #475 User-defined rich types are now loaded from RAILS_ROOT/app/rich_types, if it exists.

• EnumString’s can now be translated. The manual has been updated with the details.

• ViewHint’s can now be translated. Well, they mostly could in 0.9, but it has been cleaned up and documented with ViewHints.

• Lifecycle states can now be translated. The key is #{table_name}.states.#{state} Transitions use the key #{table_name}.actions.#{transition}

Major bug fixes:

• #537 The ._?. “smart dot” now returns ‘nil’ rather than calling its trailing function more often than it used to, more closely matching its documentation.

• #457 ie7-recalc.js has been updated to improve compatibility with IE6. Please update the copy inside of your application, either by running rake hobo:run_standard_generators or by copying the file directly from github

• #512 Hobo now has better compatibility with non-DRYML templates

Minor enhancements:

• #554 The transition-buttons tag no longer displays transitions that are not :available_to the user.

• #536 documentation for field-list more closely matches reality

• #536 i18n has been silenced. It’s messages can be made to reappear on the log via HOBO_VERBOSE_TRANSLATIONS.

• #555 Specifying ignore_index :foo will ignore the index named ‘foo’ on the model when generating migrations – handy for indexes that can’t be generated automatically (with a prefix length on MySQL, for instance) or existing indexes in legacy tables.

See also the git log