Yeah, we’d postpone this sprint’s release if it meant that we could make a release on February, 29. Because of deadlines for clients, we haven’t been able to roll into a new sprint anyway; I’m just sayin’, it would be a lot cooler to legitimize new sprint delays with a leap year :)
Anyway, here are the changes:
Happy birthday Henry Rollins. Like you, adva-cms2 rises above. Here are the awesome, ass-kicking changes for this sprint:
Okay, admittedly …
Okay, there is no adva-Bond engine…yet, and adva-cms2 does continue to serve us well. This sprint there are more substantial changes to help us further develop our latest client projects and other not yet public engines. Here’s the summary:
So this our first release of 2011. It’s still just minor enhancements though. We really just updated the README to let people know that adva-cms2 doesn’t support Ruby 1.9.x yet and that there are issues with specific patch-level versions of Ruby, specifically patch-levels 1.8.7-p248 and 1.8.7-p249 don’t work. If you’re interested in the details, please refer to the mailing list.
Until next time. Happy New Year!
We’ve still been busy developing other projects that use adva-cms2, so this sprint we’ve just made some more small enhancements to help solidify the code base. Here they are:
1. The admin edit page for categories now shows the name of the category in the header.
2. We’ve patched webrat so that the ‘within’ method accepts xpaths (see this ticket).
3. The has_many_through_collection_checkboxes helper now generates item classes for checkboxes
4. Updated simple_nested_set …
Things haven’t changed that much in this sprint. That’s because we’ve had to focus on client projects and some engines that just haven’t been released yet, but it’s also shows that adva-cms2 is already pretty stable in what it’s providing for us.
Our main focus with the few changes to adva-cms2 was bumping Rails support to 3.0.3, which was released on November 16th. We’ve also changed a few minor things in adva-categories, which now seems to work fine …
In the last two weeks things here have continued to roll ahead.
The 0.0.3 Tag has been pushed to Github and here’s a short summary of what’s changed in the last couple of weeks.
Amongst other things we’ve extracted activesupport-slices into a separate gem tagged as “lazy loaded vertical code slices based on ActiveSupport Dependencies”. See the readme for details.
Also on framework level: we’ve reworked our “polymorphic url_for” extension which still …
Since we’re working in sprints of 2 weeks we’re also trying to follow a similar release cycle. This will of course mean fewer major changes, but also steadier stream of new features. To keep you all informed of the changes, we’ll at least send the changelog to mailing list, but of course if there is anything particularly noteworthy, you can always expect to find it mentioned here as well.
So, on to the changes to for this release, 0.0.2
First there were some I18n related changes: …
For the past several months we’ve been working hard on a complete rewrite of adva-cms targeting Rails 3.
This new version turns out to be so different that we decided to change the name to adva-cms2. It incorporates most of the main concepts of adva-cms’ core engines, such as “site” and a “section tree” being the central domain model, segmentation of the entire code base into encapsulated, reusable engines and making things work as a framework and basis for …
Yes, we've spent the last couple of months doing a complete overhaul of adva-cms, so complete in fact, that it's actually a brand new product, no fork, no clone, just fresh code.
We decided to do this because the development of Bundler and all the new features in Rails 3 offered us a good opportunity to reflect on the what we've learned from the original adva-cms and build a new, better and more modular Rails CMS framework: adva-cms2
What we've learned from the first version of adva-cms resulted …
A lot of small things have changed in adva_cms since 0.3.0!
First and most visibly, two plugins have been added and one engine gottransformed into a plugin. But there are many fixes and tweaks that makeadva_cms better.
A while ago, FCKEditor got renamed, updated and improved. Now you canhave the newest version, the CKEditor, fully integrated into adva_cms with asimplerake adva:install plugin=adva_ckeditor. If you have Adva::Assetsinstalled, you can upload your pictures through the editor. However, …
This month, we’ve added a new role based access control (RBAC) library, so you can now set global roles for users.
We’ve also added the following enhancements:
and the following changes:
Have fun!
This month we have a tiny bug fix release with a couple of nice features. We fixed some bugs related to postgresql and we added optimistic locking to the articles and wikipages on the backend. Also this release introduces relative symlinks for assets! So when you deploy to your production server you do not need to worry about having your local paths on asset symlinks, awesome. Oh, and we also have an alternate admin layout that should fix the nasty IE 7 bugs!
Thismight be interesting for those of you who want to use current adva-cms with heroku.
We found it pretty cool that somebody had already tried this out. Thanks for saurabh.a.bhatia for the write-up.
Currently things like themes or picture galleries are not working because of the read only file system of heroku, but this might change in the future. We will keep you posted!
This month we have a release that contains tons of small changes and refactorings. We basically cleaned up the adva-cms code by removing legacy code and improving the quality of code where we found some code smells. We have also put some effort into making the adva-cms test suite more flexible when working with custom apps. There are a bunch of bug fixes again and also a long requested feature for site finding is now implemented. Oh, and we have cooler help hints now, too!
This month we are happy to announce a bug fix release for the adva-cms; that's why we call this release "the bug hunter release". It has bunch of bug fixes and it also adds some minor features and changes like 'email notification switch' (which allows you to disable and enable email notifications per site), translatable section and category titles, and much more. We also improved adva-themes and the result is more robust and user friendly theming experience for you.
We are happy to announce adva-cms 0.2.1 after a little longer break since our last release. This release introduces things like custom tab indexes for the form builder, two new cells, bunch of bug fixes and other additions. We also did some battle testing on the spam filters and made them more reliable to make sure they work as expected.
Over the past month, our goal was to improve the usability of the adva-cms backend interface and to clean up our HTML and CSScodebase. We created a new admin layout from scratch and now it looks prettier than ever (at least we like to think so)!
This release also introduces the menu and table builders for developers which helped us to clean up the view code and tocut out many partials.
Now we are happy to deliver you a cleaner, clearer and more usable adva-cms today! Enjoy!
One month has passed since the release of adva-cms 0.1.1 and things havemoved quite a bit since then. The changes include a complete revision of ourtesting philosophy, the migration to more current plugins/gems (like paperclip and stringex), the removal of some rather community-related engines,lots of fixes and interesting features and additions.
One of the biggest changes we did was to completely revisit our testingphilosophy.
Our old way of heavy stubbing …
One month has passed since the release of adva-cms 0.1.1 and things havemoved quite a bit since then. The changes include a complete revision of ourtesting philosophy, the migration to more current plugins/gems (like paperclip and stringex), the removal of some rather community-related engines,lots of fixes and interesting features and additions.
One of the biggest changes we did was to completely revisit our testingphilosophy.
Our old way of heavy stubbing …
Almost a year after we have started the development we are happy to announce the first release of adva-cms! This still is an experimental release and you may encounter bugs and some parts have some rough edges.
The adva-cms project originally was started by Sven Fuchsand was meant to be a rewrite of Mephisto, but in time it grew larger and became what it is today - a bleeding edge CMS platform.
The idea behind adva-cms is that you can plug in different engines, depending on your need. If you only …
adva cmsis a cutting edge open source cms application plattform based onRuby on RailsandRails Engines.
It currently comes with core engines such as:
Read more aboutthe concept behind adva-cmson the wiki.
Different from other Rails applications the all-engines approach of adva cms allows you to build your …