This time we are proud to announce Version 2008.07 of Ramaze, the light and
modular open source web framework.

This release features a lot of work directly from our community and we are
really greatful for everybody who helped in testing, patching and contributing
exciting new features.

Our extensive set of specs and docs now covers almost every detail of
implementation and usage. Ramaze is under development by a growing community
and in production use at companies.


Home page:       http://ramaze.net
Screencasts:     http://ramaze.net/screencasts

Source browser:  http://source.ramaze.net
Repository:      http://github.com/manveru/ramaze

Nightly gems:    http://gems.ramaze.net
Git clone:       git://github.com/manveru/ramaze
Current tarball: http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tarball/master

IRC: #ramaze on irc.freenode.net


Simple example:

  require 'ramaze'

  class MainController
    def index
      'Hello, World!'
    end
  end

  Ramaze.start


Some of 52 patches since 2008.06:

  - Loggers are now in Ramaze::Logger namespace
  - Global.prefix for nested deployment via webserver in front
  - Binding#locals fixed for Ruby 1.9
  - Redirects now use HTTP status 302 instead of 303
  - Logger::Syslog works again

Special (alphabetic) thanks go to:

  Pistos                  - The usual Mathetes, patches and lots of friendly support
  Aman 'tmm1' Gupta       - Time snippets for numeric
  Clinton R. Nixon        - More REST and some fixes
  Jean-Francois Chevrette - Restore --console feature
  raggi                   - Various fixes
  Rob Lievaart            - Fix Logger::Syslog
  Sam Carr                - Cleanup of Cache
  Wang Jinjing            - 1.9 compatibility
  Yasushi Abe             - First patch!

A complete Changelog is available at
http://github.com/manveru/ramaze/tree/master/doc/CHANGELOG?raw=true


Known issues:

  - none yet, waiting for your reports :)


Ramaze Features:
  - Builds on top of the Rack library, which provides easy use of adapters like
    Mongrel, WEBrick, LiteSpeed, Thin, CGI or FCGI.

  - Supports a wide range of templating-engines like: Amrita2, Erubis, Haml,
    Liquid, Markaby, Remarkably and its own engine called Ezamar and (still
    unofficial) Nagoro.

  - Highly modular structure: you can just use the parts you like. This also
    means that it's very simple to add your own customizations.

  - A variety of helpers is already available, giving you things like advanced
    caching, OpenID-authentication or aspect-oriented programming for your
    controllers.

  - It is possible to use the ORM you like, be it Sequel, DataMapper,
    ActiveRecord, Og, Kansas or something more simplistic like DBI, or a
    wrapper around YAML::Store.

  - Good documentation: although we don't have 100% documentation right now
    (dcov says around 75%), just about every part of Ramaze is covered with
    basic and advanced docs. There are a variety of examples, screencasts and a
    tutorial available.

  - Friendly community: there are people from all over the world using Ramaze,
    so you can get almost instant help and info.


For more information please come to http://ramaze.net or ask directly on IRC
irc://irc.freenode.net/#ramaze

Thank you, Michael 'manveru' Fellinger and the Ramaze community