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New in 0.8 - DRYML Generators
Posted by Tom | September 4, 2008 comments 6 Responses

There’s a ton of new stuff in Hobo 0.8, mainly in the area of DRYML and the Rapid tag library. This post is the first in a short series that will give an overview of what’s new, what’s changed and why.

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Hobo 0.8 Released
Posted by Tom | September 3, 2008 comments 2 Responses

I’ve just tagged v0.8 in the git repo, and released the 0.8 gems on rubyforge.

Enjoy!

Expect breaking changes as always (until we get to 1.0 of course), and expect more than normal, because this is a fairly big release.

I’ve created a page on the github wiki to collect advice for upgrading your existing apps. That page will grow over the next few days, but to get you started, here are the main things you definitely need to do.

First, Hobo in general:

Upgrade gem to 1.2 (you don’t have to do this but it’s so much faster)

$ gem update --system

Add the github gem server as a source (so you get will_paginate)

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

Now you can upgrade Hobo

$ gem update hobo

Then, for your app:

You need to run some generators again. Be careful not to overwrite your code! The ‘d’ option to see the differences is useful. You might want (with the user model in particular) to just create a new blank Hobo app with the hobo command and compare the files manually. Run these generators:

  • hobo
  • hobo_rapid
  • hobo_user_model
  • hobo_front_controller

From there, go check out the page on the wiki

I’ll follow-up shortly (heh) with a post about what’s new in 0.8.

Tweeting
Posted by Tom | August 5, 2008 comments One Response

I finally succumbed

I’ll pretty much only be using this to let anyone that’s interested know what I’m up to with Hobo at a given time. Don’t expect to see “brushing my teeth” or anything like that : )

This is going to be pretty much write-only, too. I’m not good with distractions. So apologies in advance if I don’t respond to your responses.

Lighthouse lights up
Posted by Tom | August 5, 2008 comments No Responses

It’s a funny thing that when someone offers to pay you to work on something, they tend to want to know what you’re up to. I did tell Owen over at Barquin that I could get the whole thing wrapped up from a beach in St. Tropez and that I’d be back in three or four months, but I could sense that the idea didn’t go down too well.

So we need a bit more visibility, we need it to be clear where we’re going and what we need to do to get there. Of course we need this anyway, to make it easier for folk to contribute to the project. We need to blow the cobwebs off our trusty Hobo Lighthouse.

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