Masterview announce - Jun 2006 - MasterView release 0.2.2 - maintenance release, fixes rhtml error, documentation updated

MasterView 0.2.2 - maintenance release

Fixes problem when rails encounters exception in either compiling or
involving RuntimeError in the generated rhtml. The rails TemplateError
class looks at the file system for the template contents. So when
generate_rhtml is false (no file is generated) rails was not able to
find source and was not outputting an error page. Rails TemplateError
class was extended to look at MasterView store first and then fallback
to file system.

Documentation was updated with some more details around
generator and including screenshots and an illustration.

Jeff
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On 6/30/06, Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Documentation was updated with some more details around
> generator and including screenshots and an illustration.
>
> Jeff
>
One small almost insignificant note. The short video shows the admin
pages and the fact that you can click on a link to view the source of
the generated rhtml. But you have to enable both those options in
config/masterview/settings.rb. So people following along might not get
the same results.

Also, the way the scaffold is structured is a little confusing. Both
the new.rhtml and edit.rhtml use the partial _form.html. But if you
edit edit.html, it will not regenerated _form.html. You have to edit
new.html to regenerate it. This was confusing to me and Jeswin when we
tried it out. I thought the Windows version wasn''t working but it was,
we just had the wrong file.

Otherwise, great work. I''m on to trying out the new tags.

-- 
Ed Howland
http://greenprogrammer.blogspot.com

Ed wrote:
>> One small almost insignificant note. The short video shows the 
>> admin pages and the fact that you can click on a link to view 
>> the source of the generated rhtml. But you have to enable both 
>> those options in config/masterview/settings.rb. So people 
>> following along might not get the same results.
Jeff - I think Ed''s got a good point, this is the kind of thing
that''s
confusing/annoying to new users (exactly the folks that we want to ensure
get off the ground easily)

Suggest we change the defaults on config.enable_admin_pages and
config.enable_view_rhtml so they''re on by default in development
environment, off otherwise.  Think we might have considered this briefly
already but it got lost in the shuffle getting 0.2.0 out the door in time
for RailsConf.

~ Deb

Thanks for the feedback. We will try to clarify those points.

It would be nice if I can figure out someway to indicate which files to edit
to get the proper partials since that will get many people at first.

On 6/30/06, Ed Howland <ed.howland at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 6/30/06, Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Documentation was updated with some more details around
> > generator and including screenshots and an illustration.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
> One small almost insignificant note. The short video shows the admin
> pages and the fact that you can click on a link to view the source of
> the generated rhtml. But you have to enable both those options in
> config/masterview/settings.rb. So people following along might not get
> the same results.
>
> Also, the way the scaffold is structured is a little confusing. Both
> the new.rhtml and edit.rhtml use the partial _form.html. But if you
> edit edit.html, it will not regenerated _form.html. You have to edit
> new.html to regenerate it. This was confusing to me and Jeswin when we
> tried it out. I thought the Windows version wasn''t working but it
was,
> we just had the wrong file.
>
> Otherwise, great work. I''m on to trying out the new tags.
>
> --
> Ed Howland
> http://greenprogrammer.blogspot.com
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OK. I updated the defaults in the generated development.rb so that
enable_admin_pages and enable_view_rhtml are both true so that by default
people will be getting things turned on.

It will go out with the next release.

Jeff

On 6/30/06, Deb Lewis <djlewis at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Ed wrote:
> >> One small almost insignificant note. The short video shows the
> >> admin pages and the fact that you can click on a link to view
> >> the source of the generated rhtml. But you have to enable both
> >> those options in config/masterview/settings.rb. So people
> >> following along might not get the same results.
>
> Jeff - I think Ed''s got a good point, this is the kind of thing
that''s
> confusing/annoying to new users (exactly the folks that we want to ensure
> get off the ground easily)
>
> Suggest we change the defaults on config.enable_admin_pages and
> config.enable_view_rhtml so they''re on by default in development
> environment, off otherwise.  Think we might have considered this briefly
> already but it got lost in the shuffle getting 0.2.0 out the door in time
> for RailsConf.
>
> ~ Deb
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Masterview-users mailing list
> Masterview-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/masterview-users
>
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