Update: I should of known better than to post this late at night. Now improved with actual working instructions!
Folks, thanks to Domizio’s great work, HoboFields is ready to try out with Rails 3. Here’s a quick guide to getting it installed and running the migration generator. You’ll need git to grab the latest code, as nothing has been released as a gem, but apart from that you won’t have to do anything too technical. Please note, Rails 3 RC2 just dropped today, but right now we’re still on RC1, so please make sure you have that version of Rails installed if you want to try this out.
If you’re paying attention, you’ll know Domizio Demichelis as the contributor of some big improvements to Hobo’s internationalisation. Well Domizio has jumped in and is now taking over from where Bryan left off in the push to Rails 3 compatibility. Welcome aboard Domizio!
Domizio is going to let us know how he’s getting on via some short posts here on the blog. He just sent me his first thoughts, so over to Domizio:
A while back I was approached by Paul Blair who was interested in doing an email interview about Hobo for InfoQ. That interview went out a few weeks back and is available here.
The actual interview was quite a bit longer than the version that got published, and the full version is probably of interest to anyone interested in Hobo, so I’m posting it here in full.
Just pushed to rubygems.org – Hobo 1.0.1. This release contains some bug fixes and performance enhancements. Just
gem update hobo
There are two speedups: one that reduces the number of database accesses by Matt Jones and one that speeds up compilation of DRYML by Petteri Räty.
If you’re interested in the details of what got fixed, take a look at the commit log on github.
Thanks very much to everyone who contributed!
Meanwhile work continues on Hobo 1.1. Watch this space : )