1.1.0 Release Candidate 1

Posted by cainlevy December 4th, 2007

The first release candidate for ActiveScaffold v1.1 has been officially tagged. Why should you bother updating? Bigger version numbers are better, of course! One of the features in this release, though, is a a brand spanking new changelog. Peruse that to get some idea of what we’ve been up to since 1.0. I’ll give you a hint: a little bit of everything, including file uploads, improved customization options, and even a touch of speed and security.

We’ve been holding back on releasing v1.1 largely because of how much we could possibly still do. It’s time for us to admit that we (like you?) will probably never finish our lists. Despite the problems and missing killer features we still know about, this version represents a significant upgrade to v1.0, and we want to give people a chance to update without chasing the trunk.

So what’s our goal with this release candidate? We want this to be a smooth upgrade (with extra features and fewer bugs) from v1.0, so we’d really appreciate if you could find some time to try out 1.1 RC1 and file bug reports for any exceptions, regressions, or backwards compatibility problems you encounter.

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  1. Arthaey Angosii said on December 4th, 2007 at 05:08 AM ...

    The changelog link is broken - it should be an ”_” instead of a “”, like so: http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.1.0_rc1

  2. Ajasja Ljubetič said on December 4th, 2007 at 06:28 AM ...

    Great, I can’t wait to try it out!

    PS: The change log is so new it can’t even be found:) (the link is broken)

  3. Aditya Raj said on December 4th, 2007 at 08:57 AM ...

    A little catch there ;) http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.1.0_rc1/

  4. cainlevy said on December 4th, 2007 at 05:34 PM ...

    Doh! Fixed. :)

  5. Robert Dobbs said on December 7th, 2007 at 01:06 AM ...

    As always, excellent work!

  6. Daniele said on December 8th, 2007 at 12:03 PM ...

    Very good!

    Just one question: did you already test it with rails 2.0?

    Daniele

  7. MarcelloDL said on December 9th, 2007 at 01:45 PM ...

    At first sight it seems not to be compatible with rails 2.0. While I wait for a new version I’m trying to fix some deprecations to see if it suffices.

  8. kla said on December 10th, 2007 at 12:51 PM ...

    I’m trying to override _form.rhtml in views/active_scaffold_overrides. I get an error:

    ActionView::TemplateError (You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.each) on line #2 of app/views/active_scaffold_overrides/_form.rhtml: 1:

      2: <% columns.each :for => @record do |column| -%> 3: <% if is_subsection? column -%> 4:
    1. 5:
      <= column.label %> (<= link_to_visibility_toggle(:default_visible => !column.collapsed) -%>)

      It works on the previous version

    2. kla said on December 10th, 2007 at 01:04 PM ...

      ... i also have a _form.rhtml override for my controller with this content:

      <%= render :super, :locals => {:columns => columns} %>

    3. Jared said on December 11th, 2007 at 02:07 AM ...

      Thank you for choosing to make your release candidates available (a lot of dev teams don’t). I was sorely missing the “conditions” feature and now it’s here and it works! I am happy to wade through the occasional bug in exchange.

    4. Wesley said on December 11th, 2007 at 03:16 AM ...

      When do you expect to have support for Rails 2.0?

      P.S. Good job on the upgrades!

    5. Wesley said on December 11th, 2007 at 03:34 AM ...

      Sorry about the last post…..just tested it using Rails 2.0 and everything seemed to work fine.

    6. Yen-Ju said on December 12th, 2007 at 03:41 AM ...

      Good Job. I just upgrade my small application to Rails 2.0 and ActiveScaffold 1.1.0rc1. It seems to work fine. Any idea when it will be officially released ?

    7. jay said on December 12th, 2007 at 04:41 PM ...

      Just to check in, I’ve upgraded to RC1 without any issues. rails 1.2.

      When will we see any documentation of some of the new features?

    8. TiBe said on December 13th, 2007 at 06:36 PM ...

      I try to use it with Rails 2.0.1 and it doesnt work, is coming a new release that supports rails 2.0.1??

    9. Lance said on December 17th, 2007 at 05:39 PM ...

      Thanks to everyone who has updated and tested RC1 here. We’ve addressed a few bugs and regressions reported in the issue tracker and should be releasing the final candidate soon. If you still have any issues I’d urge you to file them at http://code.google.com/p/activescaffold/issues/list.

      Jay: Documentation is currently mixed in. Some of the API docs have version numbers sprinkled in, much like the Prototype docs.

    10. Brandon said on December 17th, 2007 at 10:40 PM ...

      Yes, I’m finding that it DOESN’T work for me with Rails 2(.0.1). I’d REALLY like to use this, and it would be REALLY nice if you could give us some idea of how to get it working with Rails 2, or what to expect.

      ActiveScaffold is awesome, but we’re feeling frustrated and left in the dark.

    11. Matthew said on December 18th, 2007 at 01:51 AM ...

      Been working with this in rails 2 for a bit. Been finding most of it works find but have had some strange errors with subforms. Most worrisome is trying to add from existing ActionView::TemplateError (Couldn’t find template file for ecards/_jobtype_form_column in [”/Users/PhotoVerite/rails/ecardnetworking/app/views”]) on line #10 of vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/frontends/default/views/_form_association_record.rhtml: 7: -%> 8: 9: <% unless readonly -%> 10: <= render :partial => form_partial_for_column(column), :locals => { :column => column, :scope => scope } -> 11: <% else -%> 12:

      <= h @record.send(column.name) ->

      13: <% end -%>

      would have filed this at the link given by Lance but have gotten an html not found error .

    12. Paul said on December 19th, 2007 at 05:20 PM ...

      I’m having the same problems with subforms. The same error when I try to add from existing. I’ve tried HABTM and has_many relationships and the same error pops up. Everything else seems to be working well with Rails 2.0.2.

    13. MarcelloDL said on December 21st, 2007 at 11:43 AM ...

      @brandon and ppl having problems with rails 2 I had active scaffold running on 2.0.1 after installing rails 2, performing a gem install ruby-debug (rails2 requirement), then, in my app folder: ./script/plugin remove active_scaffold verifying that the active_scaffold dir is erased .script/plugin install http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tascript/0_rc1/1.1.0_rc1

      of course i had upgraded the app by setting the appropriate gem version in environment.rb and performed rake rails:update

      Note that rails is already past 2.0.1 :)

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