In an effort to better open up the ActiveScaffold infrastructure to the community, we’re migrating online documentation over to the GitHub wiki. Please help out! I was able to migrate the documentation pages, but everything from the user wiki should also be moved over to the GitHub wiki. Eventually we will be taking down some of the activescaffold.com pages to better promote the community-editable versions.

Again, the goal is to make it easier for the community to participate in the project at all levels. This should help alleviate any bottlenecks due to busy core devs. If you have ideas or concerns, please direct them to the mailing list in the next month so that the community can participate in the discussion.

I’ve been thinking back to the months leading up to ActiveScaffold 1.0 and about how much the project really owes to those generous sponsors who encouraged a few devs to contribute to the open source community. That was great!

Could it happen again? I think so! We still maintain ActiveScaffold as we have time (props go to Tim for the push to support Rails 2.1), but I think the project could really benefit from another sprint of activity. There are a few things that would help the project to remain stable and would ease community contributions, such as versioned documentation (rdocs!) and a full test suite. But that’s my bias—what do you think it needs next?

If you like the idea of an ActiveScaffold code sprint and would consider being a sponsor (large or small!) would you please fill out a quick survey?

Thanks!

I recently updated the ActiveScaffold sortable plugin and resolved a handful of issues. While I was at it, I decided to create a screencast to show off ActiveScaffold and how easy it is to setup.

The video shows my old github copies of the repositories. The urls to get the repositories are as follows:

ActiveScaffold

ActiveScaffold Sortable

With so much fun happening in git land, ActiveScaffold has officially cut it’s ties from Subversion and moved completely over to Git. All git related repositories can be found at the following URL:

http://github.com/activescaffold

The advantages of using Git are too numerous to identify in a short article, but among them are the following:

- Contributing will be easier for all: you can create your own fork of ActiveScaffold to add a feature or fix a bug. Then submitting your patch is as easy as sending a pull request.

- You don’t have to wait for ActiveScaffold core to accept your changes before updating to a newer version. With git, you can pull updates from core and merge them in with your changes.

- Git is super, super fast. I mean REALLY FAST. It’s incredibly space / bandwidth efficent, too.

- Branching is painless in git. Merging your branches is also painless.

- The concept of a “core team” is diluted. ActiveScaffold core doesn’t have to agree with your awesome save-the-world do-everything feature. Just fork and then build it. If it rocks, other people can use your version.

So, if you haven’t already, come join us on the git bandwagon. There are plenty of easy ways to install git now – packages exist for OS X, Windows, and many distros of Linux.

Yeehaa!

A few of us will be at

If there is interest in linking up let’s discuss in the forum.

This patch version is just a quick fix for some rendering issues with Rails 1.2.x.

• Subversion tags/active_scaffold
• Subversion tags/1.1.1
• .zip download

We’ve tagged and packaged the newest official ActiveScaffold release, version 1.1. This version comes packed with a host of features and fixes from version 1.0.1. And like many other versions in the open source world, this is mostly just an excuse to tell you that you should upgrade.

• Rails 1.2.x: This will probably be the last version of ActiveScaffold to support the Rails 1.2 branch. Trunk may break backwards compatibility any time now.
• Rails 2.0.1: Please upgrade to 2.0.2, otherwise you’ll have trouble with subform field overrides (see Rails changeset 8385).

• Subversion tags/active_scaffold
• Subversion tags/1.1.0_rc1
• .zip download

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 new 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 with 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 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.

• Subversion tags/1.1.0_rc1
• .zip download