Rails - Mar 2006 - Instiki 0.11.0 - ActiveRecord Forever

Dear all,

If you thought Instiki was a dead project, you were right. Since I''ve
got a day job that doesn''t suck
(Official Ruby Zealot of ThoughtWorks Canada), my motivation to do open source
greatly sufferred :)

But... but... but! Here is Instiki 0.11.0, and in this version Instiki is
(finally!) moving to ActiveRecord backend
and (finally!) has the File Upload feature.

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''?l 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 Rails, One Click Installer and RubyGems.

Changes in this version:

   SQL-based backend (ActiveRecord)
   File uploads (finally)
   Upgraded to Rails 1.0.0
   Replaced internal link generator with routing
   Fixed --daemon option
   Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions
   Improved HTML diff
   More accurate "See Changes"

The released files are available at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=186
Online documentation is at http://instiki.org.
Source code and bug tracker are at http://dev.instiki.org

README at http://svn.instiki.org/instiki/tags/release-0.11.0/README contains
instructions on how to install this version
and migrate data from Instiki 0.10 or Instiki-AR beta.

Especially big thanks to Rick Olson aka technoweenie for his help with porting
Instiki to ActiveRecord.
Big thanks to DHH and Co. for Rails, to Why the Lucky Stiff for RedCloth, and
everybody who sent me patches and otherwise
prodded me to keep going for that extra bit of motivation.

Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky

>    Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions
Is the Mac OS X install package coming back anytime soon?

I think a lot of people would love that, me for sure!

Thanks.

So far, Instiki 0.11.0 is only packaged for Windows. It will work on any 
other platform that Rails works on, as long as you have SQLite or MySQL 
installed, and edit config/database.yml appropriately, but only on 
Windows you can download, unzip and run it out of the box.

The sole reason why I didn''t package it the same way for Linux or OS X 
is that I don''t have either at hand. Can somebody help?

Also, please tell me if Instiki works out of the box on your Windows PC. 
It does on both my laptop and desktop, but that''s not very convincing 
(they aren''t very "normal" PCs).

Best regards,
Alex Verkhovsky

wolf2k5 wrote:
>>   Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions
>>    
>>
>
>Is the Mac OS X install package coming back anytime soon?
>
>I think a lot of people would love that, me for sure!
>  
>
Same story as with 0.10 releases. If somebody wants a .dmg strongly 
enough to create it, I''ll gladly make it available for downloading.

Alex

Hi Alexey,

I''m getting deadlock errors on windows:

http://ruby:2500/mywiki/new/HomePage -> /mywiki/show/HomePage
deadlock 0x363a7b8: run:-  - (null):0
deadlock 0x2795628: sleep:ST(1142800030.644000) (main) -
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/we
brick/server.rb:88
deadlock 0x37314c0: sleep:T(1142800059.575000)  -
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.r
b:41
[2006-03-19 15:27:09] ERROR fatal: Thread(0x37314c0): deadlock
        c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:41:in `start''

Any ideas?

Hammed

On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> If you thought Instiki was a dead project, you were right. Since
I''ve got
> a day job that doesn''t suck
> (Official Ruby Zealot of ThoughtWorks Canada), my motivation to do open
> source greatly sufferred :)
>
> But... but... but! Here is Instiki 0.11.0, and in this version Instiki is
> (finally!) moving to ActiveRecord backend
> and (finally!) has the File Upload feature.
>
> 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''?l 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 Rails, One Click Installer and RubyGems.
>
> Changes in this version:
>
>    SQL-based backend (ActiveRecord)
>    File uploads (finally)
>    Upgraded to Rails 1.0.0
>    Replaced internal link generator with routing
>    Fixed --daemon option
>    Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions
>    Improved HTML diff
>    More accurate "See Changes"
>
> The released files are available at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=186
> Online documentation is at http://instiki.org.
> Source code and bug tracker are at http://dev.instiki.org
>
> README at http://svn.instiki.org/instiki/tags/release-0.11.0/READMEcontains
instructions on how to install this version
> and migrate data from Instiki 0.10 or Instiki-AR beta.
>
> Especially big thanks to Rick Olson aka technoweenie for his help with
> porting Instiki to ActiveRecord.
> Big thanks to DHH and Co. for Rails, to Why the Lucky Stiff for RedCloth,
> and everybody who sent me patches and otherwise
> prodded me to keep going for that extra bit of motivation.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexey Verkhovsky
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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Hammed Malik wrote:
> I''m getting deadlock errors on windows:
>
> Any ideas?
Hmm...

Neither c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:88, nor 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:41 contain anything remotely interesting 
on my PC. The latter is in the middle of a large comment block, in fact. 
I suspect your Ruby version is not the same as mine. I have One Click 
Installer 1.8.4.16 preview3:

C:\eclipse\workspace\instiki>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]

What''s yours? In case it''s not the same, can you try to
upgrade from
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/8338/ruby184-16p3.exe and see what 
happens?

Alex

At 2:28 AM -0700 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> If somebody wants a .dmg strongly enough to create it,
> I''ll gladly make it available for downloading.
Count me as an interested "customer" for such a DMG.

Also, I''d love to be able to package up snapshots of my
Instiki-based wikis.  A script (or at least, a HOWTO) for
this would be way cool to have.

-r
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Rich Morin wrote:
>Count me as an interested "customer" for such a DMG.
>
>Also, I''d love to be able to package up snapshots of my
>Instiki-based wikis.  A script (or at least, a HOWTO) for
>  
>
Rich,

What we need is an interested _creator_ of such a DMG, somebody with a 
Macbook and few hours to spare for the benefit of the humankind :)

As for snapshots. Not sure if I understand the question right, but if we 
are talking about taking a backup copy of the data, the way to do it 
depends on which database you are using.

For SQLite (default option), backing it up is simply a matter of copying 
the database file, which by default is located at 
instiki-0.11.0/db/production.db.sqlite3. This location, by the way, can 
be changed by editing instiki-0.11.0/config/database.yml, specifically 
the last line in the following section:

production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/production.db.sqlite3

Note: all whitespace in database.yml file format is important, 
especially the indentation.

Best regards,
Alex

At 6:55 PM -0700 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> What we need is an interested _creator_ of such a DMG, somebody with
> a Macbook and few hours to spare for the benefit of the humankind :)
Understood, but I''m not that person.  Meanwhile, I don''t think
it
hurts to mention desired features.  Maybe they''ll be a no-brainer
for whoever builds the DMG...
> As for snapshots. Not sure if I understand the question right, but if
> we are talking about taking a backup copy of the data, the way to do
> it depends on which database you are using.
>
> For SQLite (default option), backing it up is simply a matter ...
Thanks for the info.  Sounds like adding this to the DMG-building
process should be relatively simple.

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me> Understood, but I''m not that person.

BTW, I _can_ volunteer to try out the DMG, proofread (and edit,
if need be) any documentation, etc.  If that helps...

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My spouse reminded me that I have a copy of DMG Tool,
an app that will create a DMG from a folder.  So, as
an experiment, I grabbed instiki-0.11.0.zip from the
net.  This being OSX, the zip file automagically got
unpacked into a folder.  I then created a DMG archive
from the folder and copied it to:

  http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/tmp/instiki-0.11.0.dmg

However, this isn''t any real improvement on the zip
file.  Mounting a DMG isn''t, after all much different
than unpacking an archive into a folder.  If anyone
wants to suggest specific things that should be done
in addition to creating the DMG, please let me know.

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Alex,

My Ruby version: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

I''m a bit hesitant to upgrade since all my current apps work well with
this
version and my host (TD) is also at this version. I''ll try running it
with
InstantRails (ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]) and see if that works
better.

I poked around while running it under Instant Rails and no problems so far.

Thanks

Hammed

On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info>
wrote:
>
> Hammed Malik wrote:
>
> > I''m getting deadlock errors on windows:
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Hmm...
>
> Neither c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:88, nor
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:41 contain anything remotely interesting
> on my PC. The latter is in the middle of a large comment block, in fact.
> I suspect your Ruby version is not the same as mine. I have One Click
> Installer 1.8.4.16 preview3:
>
> C:\eclipse\workspace\instiki>ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
>
> What''s yours? In case it''s not the same, can you try to
upgrade from
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/8338/ruby184-16p3.exe and see what
> happens?
>
> Alex
>
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> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex at verk.info> wrote:> wolf2k5
wrote:>> >>   Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions>
>>> >>> >> >Is the Mac OS X install package coming
back anytime soon?> >> >I think a lot of people would love that, me
for sure!> >> >> Same story as with 0.10 releases. If somebody
wants a .dmg strongly> enough to create it, I''ll gladly make it
available for downloading.>> Alex>
_______________________________________________> Instiki-users mailing
list> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org>
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users>
For all the users interested in a native Mac OS X installer,
I''mcurrently working on an update of my v0.10 Instiki DMG, complete
witha step-by-step installation guide - the process is not
quitestraight-forward. However, if I''ll find a way to create a
no-brainerall-inclusive Universal Binary - you''ll be first to hear it
from me:-)
--Oleg "2sheds" Kourapovmailto:ok at 2sheds.ruhttp://www.2sheds.ru

Alex, I''ll send a Mac OS X version to you ASAP.
On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex at verk.info> wrote:> So far,
Instiki 0.11.0 is only packaged for Windows. It will work on any> other
platform that Rails works on, as long as you have SQLite or MySQL> installed,
and edit config/database.yml appropriately, but only on> Windows you can
download, unzip and run it out of the box.>> The sole reason why I
didn''t package it the same way for Linux or OS X> is that I
don''t have either at hand. Can somebody help?>> Also, please tell
me if Instiki works out of the box on your Windows PC.> It does on both my
laptop and desktop, but that''s not very convincing> (they
aren''t very "normal" PCs).>> Best regards,> Alex
Verkhovsky> _______________________________________________> Instiki-users
mailing list> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org>
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users>>

--Oleg "2sheds" Kourapovmailto:ok at 2sheds.ruhttp://www.2sheds.ru

The version I checked out the SVN repository is working for me on
Win2003 using the latest Mongrel as a server.

On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex at verk.info>
wrote:
> Also, please tell me if Instiki works out of the box on your Windows PC.
> It does on both my laptop and desktop, but that''s not very
convincing
> (they aren''t very "normal" PCs).

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>The version I checked out the SVN repository is working for me on
>Win2003 using the latest Mongrel as a server.
>
>On 3/19/06, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex at verk.info> wrote:
>  
>
>>Also, please tell me if Instiki works out of the box on your Windows PC.
>>It does on both my laptop and desktop, but that''s not very
convincing
>>(they aren''t very "normal" PCs).
>>    
>>
Cool, thanks for the good news.

Can you please write about this option on instiki.org? When should one 
choose Mongrel over other options (Apache, Lighttpd and Webrick)? What 
does it take to run Instiki under it?

Best regards,
Alex

Oleg Kourapov wrote:
>Alex, I''ll send a Mac OS X version to you ASAP.
>  
>
Now we are rolling! :)

Oleg,

The main obstacle that did not exist before is the need to package 
SQLite3 binary and a blank database file (with empty tables).
On any *nix platform it should be as follows (assuming that working 
directory is instiki root folder, the one that contains README):

1. Download or build a native binary of sqlite-3.3.4.so
2. Place it under ./lib/native/linux
3. Create a shell script that puts ./lib/native/linux in the beginning 
of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and/or SHLIB_PATH, then launches ruby ./script/server 
-e production
4. Delete ./db/production.db.sqlite3
5. Execute rake environment RAILS_ENV=production migrate, this should 
create ./db/production.db.sqlite3 again.

At this point, you should be able to copy the instiki root folder to 
another computer (that has Ruby, but no SQLite3), and run it just like 
that. Then spin your OS X magic wand :)

A similar process worked for me on Windoze. I am going to try it on a 
Linux now. By the way, if you want commit rights to Instiki Subversion 
for your OS X build work, please mail me off-list.

Best regards,
Alex

P.S. Send patches! Send patches! Send patches!

Hammed Malik wrote:
> My Ruby version: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> I poked around while running it under Instant Rails [Ruby 1.8.4] and 
> no problems so far.
Yup, that''s what I suspected. Don''t remember why, but Rails
1.0 doesn''t
go well with Ruby 1.8.2.

Alex

Thank you, Alexey, for a wonderful product.  I love Instiki, and now that it
is running with an SQL Lite backend, I feel much safer ... You have made an
outstanding contribution to our computing world. I found your installation
instructions excellent and it really is easy  ... just ruby and instiki and
away you go.

I do have two questions:  

1) Is there a way to take a textile exported file and import it into the new
instiki.  I have some old instiki sites I would love to simply move over to
your system.

2) How difficult is it to change to a different SQL DB backend?

-----Original Message-----
From: instiki-users-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:instiki-users-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Alexey Verkhovsky
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 4:01 AM
To: Mail list for discussing Instiki; Ruby Talk; Rails
Subject: [Instiki] [ANN] Instiki 0.11.0 - ActiveRecord Forever

Dear all,

If you thought Instiki was a dead project, you were right. Since I''ve
got a
day job that doesn''t suck 
(Official Ruby Zealot of ThoughtWorks Canada), my motivation to do open
source greatly sufferred :)

But... but... but! Here is Instiki 0.11.0, and in this version Instiki is
(finally!) moving to ActiveRecord backend 
and (finally!) has the File Upload feature.

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''?l 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 Rails, One Click Installer and RubyGems.

Changes in this version:

   SQL-based backend (ActiveRecord)
   File uploads (finally)
   Upgraded to Rails 1.0.0
   Replaced internal link generator with routing
   Fixed --daemon option
   Removed Rubygem and native OS X distributions
   Improved HTML diff
   More accurate "See Changes"

The released files are available at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=186
Online documentation is at http://instiki.org.
Source code and bug tracker are at http://dev.instiki.org

README at http://svn.instiki.org/instiki/tags/release-0.11.0/README contains
instructions on how to install this version 
and migrate data from Instiki 0.10 or Instiki-AR beta.

Especially big thanks to Rick Olson aka technoweenie for his help with
porting Instiki to ActiveRecord.
Big thanks to DHH and Co. for Rails, to Why the Lucky Stiff for RedCloth,
and everybody who sent me patches and otherwise 
prodded me to keep going for that extra bit of motivation.

Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky

_______________________________________________
Instiki-users mailing list
Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users

David Guest wrote:
>Thank you, Alexey, for a wonderful product.  I love Instiki, and now that it
>is running with an SQL Lite backend, I feel much safer ... You have made an
>outstanding contribution to our computing world. I found your installation
>instructions excellent and it really is easy  ... just ruby and instiki and
>away you go.
>  
>
Wow... Thanks for the kind words. :)
>1) Is there a way to take a textile exported file and import it into the new
>instiki.  I have some old instiki sites I would love to simply move over to
>your system.
>  
>
No, but there will be in 0.11.1.
>2) How difficult is it to change to a different SQL DB backend?
>  
>
Absolutely. Instiki.org is running on MySQL now, I also use it in 
development.

Just change config/database.yml to connect to MySQL instead of SQLite 
(there are examples in the config/database.yml itself). Then run 
migration (rake environment RAILS_ENV=production migrate).

Rails also supports a number of other databases (Postgres, Oracle, 
SQLServer and even DB/2). Although I have never tried, it may be 
possible to deploy Instiki against one of those other databases. By the 
way, if somebody tries, please tell us about the outcome.

Alex

Alex. thank you for the upgrade! I was almost going to use some other wiki
system :)

Following the README, I just tested the conversion from 0.10.1 to the 0.11 and
it went smoothly.
this is on debian stable. our wiki is in chinese, btw.

not a big deal but i thought i might just mention here. regardless i am using
sqlite, "Execute
ruby script\reset_references" this step gave me bunch of mysql error.
it''s not harmful as instiki
still starts fine. 
_______________________________
% ruby script/reset_references
Loading Rails for development environment...
./vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:104:in
`initialize'': No such file or
directory - /tmp/mysql.sock (Errno::ENOENT)
        from
./vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:104:in
`new''
        from
./vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:104:in
`real_connect''
--------------------------------

also, is there any spam filter kind of thing available or being working on? 

thanks again!

Qiang

--- Alexey Verkhovsky <alex at verk.info> wrote:
> Dear all,
> But... but... but! Here is Instiki 0.11.0, and in this version Instiki is
(finally!) moving to
> ActiveRecord backend 
> and (finally!) has the File Upload feature.
> 
> 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''???l 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
> Rails, One Click Installer and RubyGems.

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