Ladies and gentlemen!
It is a great pleasure for me to announce the release of version 0.10.0
of Instiki, the most popular end-user application in the Ruby world.
Instiki is a Wiki Clone http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones
that’s so easy to set up and so pretty to look at, you’ll be wondering
whether this is a real wiki at all.
It is also an early ancestor of Rails. In this version Instiki becomes a
real Rails application.
Besides, we have a new markup option that mixes Textile and Markdown on
the same pages.
Besides, there is an automated test suite for the controllers layer, and
generally a lot more tests.
Other than that, there are dozens of bug fixes and usability tweaks, but
no major new features. Sadly, the file uploads didn’t make it to
production yet.
There may be new bugs, too - there is A LOT of new and changed code in
there.
The released files are available at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=186
Online documentation is at http://instiki.org
Source code and bug tracker are at http://dev.instiki.org
A gem should be available on RubyForge gem server shortly.
Huge thanks to:
- Dennis Mertz and other contributors for tickets and patches
- David Heinemeier Hansson for both Instiki and Rails
- Why the Lucky Stiff for RedCloth 3.0.3
- Matz for the elegant and expressive language
- Ruby community for its existence
CHANGELOG
- 0.10.0:
Ported to ActionPack
RedCloth 3.0.3
BlueCloth is phased out, Markdown is rendered by RedCloth
Mix markup option understands both Textile and Markdown on the same page
Instiki can serve static content (such as HTML or plain-text files) from
./public
directory
Much friendlier admin interface
Wiki link syntax doesn’t conflict with Textile hyperlink syntax. Therefore
"textile link":LinkToSomePlace will not look insane.
RSS feeds accept query parameters, sush as
http://localhost:2500/wiki/rss_with_headlines?start=2005-02-18&end=2005-02-19&limit=10
RSS feed with page contents for a password-protected web behaves as follows:
if the web is published, RSS feed links to the published version of the web
otherwise, the feed is not available
Madeleine will check every hour if there are new commands in the log or
24 hours have
passed since last snapshot, and take snapshot if either of these
conditions is true
Madeleine will also not log read-only operations, resulting in a better
performance
Wiki extracts (to HTML and plain text) will leave only the last extract
file in ./storage
Wiki search handles multibyte (UTF-8) characters correctly
Local hyperlinks in published pages point to published pages [Michael
DeHaan]
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused all past revisions of a page to be
"forgotten" on
restart
Fixed parsing of URIs with a port number (http://someplace.org:8080)
Instiki will not fork itself on a *nix, unless explicitly asked to
Instiki can bind to IPs other than 127.0.0.1 (command-line option)
Revisions that do not change anything on the page are rejected
Automated tests for all controller actions
category: lines are presented as links to “All Pages” for relevant
categories
Search looks at page titles, as well as content
Multiple other usability enhancements and bug fixes
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Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky
Ruby Forum: http://ruby-forum.org (moderator)
RForum: http://rforum.andreas-s.net (co-author)
Instiki: http://instiki.org (maintainer)