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Release 0.7.1

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Although not as sexy a release as 0.7.0, there are some very important bug fixes and some cool new little features in this release. Rack has been upgraded to v0.4.0. DataMapper to 0.9.5. Facets to 2.4.4, and a few other gems as well.

There is now a much nicer session store API that will allow developers to build their own session stores. There’s also a couple of new session stores that ship with 0.7.1. There’s a DataMapper session store, and a cookie session store, which is now the default session store. The previous Cachetastic based session store can be used by requiring the mack-caching gem in gems.rb and putting the following setting in your app_config/*.yml file:

mack::session_store: cachetastic

There is now built-in support to help prevent cross-site scripting attacks on forms. Some view helper methods have nice updates such as :disable_with and :confirm, and asset hosts.

And a whole host of other little improvements across the board. Enjoy!

Changelog:

  • [#153] Emails with just a single ‘part’ are now being sent correctly.
  • [#147] Added :confirm to button helpers.
  • [#146] [Diogo Almeida] Added :disable_with to submit_button form helper.
  • [#145] Added rake generate:<generator_name>:desc task to ‘describe’ a Genosaurus generator
  • [#144] INCOMPATIBILITY NOTICE: rake server is no more. Please use mackery server instead.
  • [#142] INCOMPATIBILITY NOTICE: rake console is no more. Please use mackery console instead.
  • [#140] Added Mack::BootLoader
  • [#139] Added ability to change the pattern for test files
  • [#137] Added subdomains method on request.
  • [#130] Added ability to ‘reload’ the console
  • [#129] DataMapper 0.9.5 support
  • [#128] Updated json_pure to 1.1.3 and removed ruby-debug dependency
  • [#127] Moved mack-paths into core
  • [#126] XSS Prevention
  • [#125] Cookie store is now the default session store, not cachetastic
  • [#124] Opened up the session store API
  • [#122] Added DataMapper session store.
  • [#121] Cookie session store support.
  • [#120] Added PassengerGenerator to generate the necessary files to run Mack with Passenger Phusion (mod_rails)
  • [#118] Mack/mack-more can be loaded from vendor/framework/mack and vendor/framework/mack-more
  • [#117] Added rake task: mack:freeze:edge
  • [#107] Updated to Rack 0.4.0
  • [#95] Removed deprecated model_* methods
  • [#94] Removed deprecated submit_tag
  • [#40] Added Mack::Utils::ContentLengthHandler so response will now have ‘Content-Length’ in its header.
  • [#21] Asset Hosts
  • gem: rack 0.4.0
  • gem: json_pure 1.1.3
  • gem: data_mapper 0.9.5
  • gem: genosaurus 1.2.4
  • gem: ezcrypto 0.7
  • gem: facets 2.4.4

 

 

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Release 0.4.1

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

On the heels of yesterdays release of 0.4.0, there is a new release today, 0.4.1. Although this is not a sexy release, as 0.4.0 was, this is an important release.

What makes this release so important is that it fixes, adds, or improves testing support for Mack applications.

The implementation of some of the testing stuff has changed under the covers, but it’s the new stuff that is really important. let’s take a look at some of the stuff:

  • assigns(key) – This one should be familiar to all you Rails folks out there. This allows you to get an instance variable that was set in a controller, and access it in your test. 
    def test_something
  get foo_index_url
  assert_not_nil assigns(:foo_list)
end
  • in_session – This methods allows you to wrap a block in the context of a session. This is great if you’re trying to do integration testing.
  • set_cookie, remove_cookie – These methods allow you to either set or a remove a cookie in your tests. Great if you want to test an action that reads a cookie, or test to see what happens if you set a cookie, then remove the cookie and call something else. Also great to use with the in_session method.

There are a few other hidden treats in there, but those are some of the highlights. These things help bring Mack testing to a usable level.

The Mack Demo Blog application has been updated to demonstrate some these things. You can pull the demo using Git here: git://github.com/markbates/mack_blog_demo.git

Changelog:

  • Improved testing support.
  • Added assigns support to testing. This is allows for pulling instance variables that were set in a controller to tests.
  • Added ability to do ‘session’ based tests.
  • Added assert_difference method.
  • Added ability to set/remove cookies before requests are made.
  • gem: mack_ruby_core_extensions 0.1.4
$ sudo gem install mack

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