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Ruby Facets v2.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2008-11-23 // over 15 years ago

  • Facets 2.5.0 is an important milestone in the development of Facets.

    🚀 This release has been tested against Rails' ActiveSupport library. 👍 As long as Facets is loaded after ActiveSupport, everything should work fine. Of course, there's no counting for real world ✅ trials, but all ActiveSupport testcases pass under this scenario.

    🚀 Secondly, this release is the first of two (or three) down-scaling 🚀 releases intended to remove all the remaining "excess" from the library. This is being done for a variety of reasons. Some scripts are substantial enough to be one their own and have been spun-off 🚀 into separate largely compatible projects. In this release:

    If you were using... Use this project instead...

    annotations.rb         Anise

bytes.rb               RichUnits
times.rb

command.rb             Clio
consoleutils.rb

    🗄 A few others scripts have been deprecated, without an alternative recourse, simply because they were too weak, such as uploadutils.rb, or highly experimental, such as chain.rb and eventhook.rb.

    🚀 Although this release constitutes an over all slimming down of Facets, two excellent new libraries have been added.

    1) ini.rb by Jeena Paradies. While YAML is frequently used by 🔧 Rubyists for configuration files, a full-on serializer like YAML is often overkill. INI files provide a lightweight solution 🔧 specifically geared for configuration.

    2) filter.rb by Brian Candler offers lazy evaluation chains of ⚡️ Enumerable methods. This is an elegant way to optimize contiguous maps, selections, etc. --effective even on infinite enumerators. 🚀 (Note, the name of this library may be changed in the next release.)

    While work remains to be done, I am happy to say, Facets is finally beginning to approach the level of solidity I set out to achieve just over a year ago. Thank the Maker!

    Special thanks to Brian Candler, Jeena Paradies and Tyler Rick.

    🔄 Changes:

    • 9 Major Changes

      • added Brian Candler's Enumerator::Filter
      • added sparse_array.rb (was old harray.rb)
      • added Jeena Paradies' ini.rb
      • renamed CacheDelegator to Memoizer
      • renamed DictionaryMatcher to just Matcher
      • deprecated bytes.rb and times.rb (use RichUnits instead)
      • deprecated uploadutils.rb; ziputils.rb will be (use Folio)
      • deprecated annotations.rb (use Anise instead)
      • deprecated command.rb and consoleutils.rb (use Clio instead)

    • 5 Minor Changes

      • deprecated chain.rb (very expiremental)
      • deprecated eventhook.rb (moved to ToadCode project)
      • deprecated tagiter.rb (moved to ToadCode project)
      • moved Hash#symolize_keys and #stringify_keys to core lib (still recommend #rekey instead though)
      • switched to git as of 2.4.5

    • 🛠 4 Bug Fixes

      • memoize.rb, cache was at class-level, now at instance-level
      • binding/caller.rb, fixed require for callstack.rb
      • fixed missing require in string/tabto.rb
      • Fixed some bugs with Time#ago/Time#hence not changing years correctly when you changed months. (For example, Time.utc(2008, 1, 1).ago(12, :months) incorrectly returned 2009-01-01 instead of 2007-01-01.) Changed Time#ago/Time#hence to still work if passed negative number.