http://hobocentral.net/blog Hobo - the web app builder for Rails Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:18:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At long last, Hobo 1.3 is released. The big news in 1.3, as most of you will know, is Rails 3 support. There are a bunch of other improvements as well. Read the details here: [http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/manual/changes](http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/manual/changes) To get Hobo 1.3 just `gem update hobo`. The work behind Hobo 1.3 is mostly thanks to Domizio ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/11/15/hobo-1-3-released/ Kevin has been making steady progress converting the MS Word version of the book into Lyx and making changes from Suzannah's edits. We hope that using the LyX layouts and using a public Github repo will make it easier to manage edits and updates, and provide a better framework for ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/08/15/progress-on-rapid-rails-3-with-hobo/ After a ton of work from Domizio and the rest of the team, we are finally ready with a Hobo 1.3 (aka Hobo for Rails 3) release candidate! You can install the release candidate with gem install hobo -v 1.3.0.RC In addition to Rails 3 support there are a ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/05/26/hobo-1-3-release-candidate/ Hobo 1.1.0.pre4 has been released into the wild. Most of the differences between 1.1.0.pre3 and 1.1.0.pre4 mirror the changes betwen 1.0.2 and 1.0.3, including the security fix for lifecycles, so it's highly recommended that you upgrade. Here is the changelog for the entire 1.1 release: The biggest ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/02/25/hobo-1-1-0-pre4-released/ This is a security release. All applications that use the reset password functionality or are on versions of Rails prior to version 2.3.4 should upgrade. To patch the reset password vulnerability, two changes have been made. First of all, the lifecycle key hash mechanism has been changed. Existing lifecycle keys will become invalid after ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/02/25/hobo-1-0-3-released/ We just stood up in production a centralized portal for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The new portal will provide a common authentication and authorization portal for all major reporting applications for NIFA.  The Portal was created using Hobo and other open-source tools. You can read more about ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/02/04/nifa-reporting-portal-and-lmd-4-0-now-live-with-hobo/ This is just a quick post to wish all of you in the Hobo community the best for 2011. We are soon approaching the release of Hobo 1.3 for Rails 3 (now at pre-release #25 and hope to have a draft of the PDF book "Rapid Rails 3 with Hobo" ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2011/01/05/happy-new-year/ On Friday I released three new Hobo gems: 1.0.2, 1.1.0.pre0 and 1.1.0.pre2. (1.1.0.pre1 was a glitch). Here are the notes for 1.0.2 from CHANGES.txt: 1.0.2 is almost identical to 1.0.1 except that it updates the version requirements to exclude Rails3. (Rails3 support is being worked on in the 1.3 branch). This ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2010/11/15/328/ Anyone wanting to have a play with Hobo + Rails 3, now is the moment! We have started releasing some pre-release gems, so that anyone who wants to can help us find any last bugs so that we can release Hobo 1.3 final. You can install the latest pre-release with ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2010/09/30/hobo-1-3-for-rails-3-pre-release/ **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 ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2010/08/24/hobofields-and-rails-3/