From Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl Mon Dec 3 03:48:01 2007 From: Peter.Bex at solide-ict.nl (Peter Bex) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:48:01 +0100 Subject: [Cells-talk] So---What's happened since August? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20071203084801.GA1486@darko.solide-ict.nl> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:11:33PM -0700, Craig Johnson wrote: > > Just discovered this and Apotomo.... Hi there, and welcome! > I have project which I'm developing right now which this paradigm > would provide some > > wonderful flexibility if it gets me part way to what I need---has > anyone built tools up to > a production and publish point and exposed it to the masses of the > unwashed to see how it holds up? I used Cells in a real world project and while doing so implemented some functionality I thought missing or improved where it was not up to snuff. I think Cells is now extremely useful and ready for a release. I've been discussing with Nick, the project leader, and he agrees we should make a release Real Soon Now. The changes I referred to include: - Dynamic Cell finding using Rails autoloading. This means Cells can now be changed and are automatically reloaded like any other model/controller class. It also means new cells are loaded without having to restart the server. - Cell inheritance. This means cell classes can inherit from other cell classes. Dynamic cell loading makes this possible. If a view is not implemented by a subclass, its superclass' directory is checked for the view, all the way up to the toplevel Cell. - Customizable view finding. Views are found by asking the class for the view. This uses the above system by default but when you implement a cell class, you can override this. Apotomo is an unknown for me right now because I haven't played with it yet. > I'm going to dive in---but if anyone has cautions--PLEASE throw them > my way! Most important: Use svn trunk, because the current release is way outdated. Feel free to join #cells on irc.freenode.net if you would like to discuss cells with us. Cheers, Peter Bex Solide ICT - http://www.solide-ict.nl From apotonick at gmail.com Mon Dec 10 18:47:18 2007 From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:47:18 +0100 Subject: [Cells-talk] cells-1.0 released, hey, it's stable! Message-ID: Hey folks, thanks to the great work of my new cells co-developer Peter Bex, and my totalitarian dictatorship, we're both very happy to announce the first stable cells release! Beside some important API changes we added cool features like view inheritance for derived cells, automatic loading and reloading of cells (no Cell::Registry anymore) and support for helpers in cell views. It's really recommended to download the new version right away, which is here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2978 We also have an IRC channel where we lurk around waiting for you and some wonderful discussions. Enter #cells at irc.freenode.net. Cheers, Nick Sutterer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/cells-talk/attachments/20071211/7aa6b6b2/attachment.html From mike.pence at gmail.com Thu Dec 27 14:04:15 2007 From: mike.pence at gmail.com (Mike Pence) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:04:15 -0500 Subject: [Cells-talk] Taking those first, furtive steps Message-ID: Hey guys, Hitting some unusual snags trying to get up and running with cells. What are the dependencies in terms of Engines and Rails versions? I see a reference to Rails 1.1.6 in the about.yml, and it definitely chokes on things that have changed in 1.2.x. If this is a dependency, we should see what is needed to support newer Rails versions, including 1.2.3 and 2.0. Best, Mike Pence From apotonick at gmail.com Fri Dec 28 09:22:49 2007 From: apotonick at gmail.com (Nick Sutterer) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:22:49 +0100 Subject: [Cells-talk] Taking those first, furtive steps In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: hey mike, nice to hear from you. > > Hitting some unusual snags trying to get up and running with cells. > What are the dependencies in terms of Engines and Rails versions? > > I see a reference to Rails 1.1.6 in the about.yml, and it definitely > chokes on things that have changed in 1.2.x. If this is a dependency, > we should see what is needed to support newer Rails versions, > including 1.2.3 and 2.0. > this reference is outdated, since i - for myself - run cells on a rails 1.2.x system. so cells is savey under rails 1.2 :-) the problem with rails 2 is that we need engines. we really need this extension since cells uses huge parts of the engines infrastructure (e.g. for automatic view file finding). how was christmas? cheers, nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/cells-talk/attachments/20071228/a2a52802/attachment-0001.html