[ANN] Instiki 0.10.2

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Dear all,

Coming back from a long hibernation over Microsoft .NET textbooks, I
have just released Instiki 0.10.2.

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’Íl be wondering whether this is a real wiki at all.

It is also the most frequently downloaded end-user application on RubyForge, surpassed only by the Ruby One Click Installer and RubyGems.

0.10.2 is a maintenance release. Primarily it is about fixing the “endless redirects loop, triggered by a RedCloth exception” bug. Here is the full list of changes in the version:

  • Resolved the “endless redirection loop” condition and otherwise improved handling of errors in the rendering engines
  • Fixed HTML export
  • Upgraded to Rails 0.13.1
  • Added layout=no option to the export_html action (it exports page contents processed by the markup engine, but without the default layout - so that they can be wrapped in some other layout)
  • tag can span several lines (before it was applied when both opening and closing tags were on the same line only)
  • Fixed rendering of Markdown hyperlinks such as Text

The released files are available at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=186
Online documentation is at http://instiki.org (the site is down as I write this, but it will be back soon).
Source code and bug tracker are at http://dev.instiki.org
An updated gem is already available on RubyForge gem server.

Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky

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I'm very interested in the new release, but before I upgrade I have a few questions:

1. I was running into problems with the --daemon feature in the 0.10.1 release and had to insert my own routine in script/server:

# ...

if OPTIONS[:notex]
   OPTIONS[:pdflatex] = false
else
   begin
     OPTIONS[:pdflatex] = system "pdflatex -version"
   rescue Errno::ENOENT
     OPTIONS[:pdflatex] = false
   end
end

### DAEMON CODE ADDED HERE!!! ###

exit!(0) if fork
Process::setsid
exit!(0) if fork
Dir::chdir("/")
File::umask(0)
[ STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR ].each{|io|
   io.reopen("/dev/null", "r+")
}

### DAEMON CODE ENDS HERE!!! ###

if defined? INSTIKI_BATCH_JOB

# ...

__END__

Is this issue resolved in the current release?

2. I'm having trouble PDFing pages on TextDrive. Does this release address that at all?

3. I'm still experiencing some down time I haven't been able to track down. Does Instiki do some logging I could use to help find the problem?

Thanks for the information.

James Edward Gray II

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On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Alex Verhovsky wrote:

Dear all,

Coming back from a long hibernation over Microsoft .NET textbooks, I have just released Instiki 0.10.2.