Site changelogEdit
This is a list of user-visible changes to the custom Rails application running this site since it went public. These really are only the user-visible changes; there are generally lots of other modifications made "under the hood".
Eventually I plan to make the code for the site open source, so I won’t need to manually maintain this list any more.
0.3: 24 April 2009
- Covered here.
April 2009
I’ve started tagging deployments in the Git repo. Basically, after a deploy has been up and running for a few days and is known to be "good" I go back and tag the corresponding revision. So far there are two tags:
- 0.2: deployed 1 April 2009
- 0.1: deployed 26 March 2009
From here on instead of manually recording changes I’ll just be posting Git commit logs showing what changes between tags.
March 2009
- Ticket #1237: 'Auto-adjust "heading level" according to context'
- Update to Rails 2.3.2
- Flashes are now JavaScript-backed, which means I can start turning on page-caching in more places and users will see faster page load times
- Ported fix for XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities
- Ticket #1137: 'Add "tweet" model for blog sidebar'
- Ticket #1235: "Viewing a forum topic, "updated at" shows last reply date"
- Ticket #1213: "Update backend to Rails 2.3.0 RC1"
- Ticket #1210: "Write JavaScript for dynamic "relativization" of displayed dates"
- Ticket #1209: "Scope refinement while navigating the tag cloud"
February 2009
I’ve been a bit slack about updating this page. Some notable changes that have made it onto the production server:
- Ticket #1199: 'Private items' influence visible on "tags#show" page’
- Ticket #1198: "Automatically record issue metadata changes in comments"
- Ticket #1190: "Very long form content gets truncated during post"
- Ticket #1136: "Add tag support to issue tracker"
Here is a list of the commits made between 27 April 2008 and 1 February 2009:
257e0ba... Fix template noise introduce in 85f69bd
6bbf25a... Add "drill-down" filter box to tags search template
056ac91... Make life easier for callers wanting reachable tags
ce656a8... Fix spec breakage caused by filterbox template
29d115c... Remove unnecessary parens
4aac0a4... Move tag scope "filterbox" out into a partial
85f69bd... First cut at "tag scoping" UI
d74696c... Add support for "scoping" to Tag model
9d852e6... Trim some fat from Tagging model
6b792ff... Lose unnecessary braces
6ced003... Don't include port 443 in outgoing emails
afafcb9... Paginator: exclude "protocol" from params
2cd7292... Set "Secure" attribute on cookies
001ac77... Use "_url" methods instead of "_path" methods
b2bde10... Fix spec breakage caused by b39c68c
4bc1f1e... Fix redirection bug in articles controller
b39c68c... Redirect to HTTPS URL if HTTP request gets through
da7c5d6... Use HTTPS for absolutely everything
a1f0c0c... Unset "current_user" variable even if an exception is thrown
bfd6771... Fix typo in comment
23028b6... Redirect HTTP requests to equivalent HTTPS URL
a1c70dc... Switch to SSL in nginx config
747aadf... Add SSL cert and keys for local testing
237e901... Ignore nginx log files
6bd33bb... Add start/stop ability to script/nginx script
759ffbc... Initial version of script/nginx script
a0ac397... Remove hard-coded paths from nginx config
4b04be7... Minimal changes to get nginx running local
edd917d... Import nginx conf from server
361a4ac... Prepare for switch to SSL transport
eb0c1ac... Update to Cucumber 0.1.16 and Webrat 0.4.0
6a63371... Add specs for issue annotations (programmatic manipulaton)
c3dde7b... Add note to issue specs for "pending_tags" attribute
83500ee... Replace custom tag validator with standard validates_format_of
1d45637... Only annotate tags if they really changed
ddb6bf1... Handle products in issue annotations
5d76ad5... Clear current user from thread-local storage after request
9f939be... Refactor issue annotations from controller to model layer
905750b... First stab at issue annotations
e619d07... Adding "pending_tags?" method
a3918ca... Add class methods to Issue model for getting kind and status strings
ef5097e... irbrc: show SQL queries in console sessions
c2c5d14... Work around Cucumber bug #165
42a3d0b... Port wiki stories over to Cucumber
f2dc4ce... Remove old version of Webrat plug-in
8f0873d... Set-up Cucumber files
160b6d9... Fix discrepancies in tag count when non-public objects are tagged
f122f05... Specs for fixed "pending tags" behaviour
9b9f224... Stop validation errors from blowing away pending tags
c9576a7... acts_as_taggable: don't blow away old tags on save
70335a3... Update specs to handle issue edits involving pending tags
f4c8a58... Update pending tags when editing issues
0ec6971... Add specs for taggable_link helper
9768122... Teach tags helper to display links to tagged issues
1c50806... Link from issues#show to edit tags
f62d7ea... Separate tags with spaces, not commas, in tag_links method
2dfc438... Show tag links when showing issues
1b24c4e... Let admins set tags on issues
216d788... Make "pending_tags" a protected attribute
f04e634... Add "pending_tags" to accessible attributes for Issue model
2a90c0c... Remove old "TODO"
507dfb4... Update to RSpec 1.1.12
456f512... Capistrano: add local_repository config for Capistrano > 2.2.0
193a689... Add notes on setting up crontab for session purging
47b3500... Rake: thin sessions table after 24 hours instead of 30 days
8b7442b... Revert "Switch to cookie-based session stores"
d0230fd... Improve 422.html error message
ceda020... Switch to cookie-based session stores
a3cad07... Partially revert 15ba815
15ba815... Capistrano: add 'migrate:test', 'migrate:development' etc tasks
f2e6b27... Whitespace fixes to spec/models/post_spec.rb
060dffd... Add validations for overlength posts
0a28ec6... Add rake task for updating TAGS file
0a6ac1d... Revise limit in MEDIUMTEXT migrations
36a3cb9... Fix spec breakage caused by 0530242
ff34b5d... Add specs to confirm that database migrations really worked
bdad3b3... Change various TEXT column types to MEDIUMTEXT
0530242... Make use of "find_by_foo!" (bang) methods
5d272b4... Add reminder note about using ":shallow" routes
1b8ca39... Rails 2.2 fix: repair Haml "ugly" mode breakage
5fc7345... Revert cdd9125: move application_controller.rb back to application.rb
deab165... Capistrano: add check for rack 0.4.0
2765c3e... Use "/system/images/" as custom image prefix for wikitext
3604d11... Update to wikitext 1.3.2
da98cc6... Rails 2.2.2 bugfix: RSpec broken thanks to application_controller.rb
cdd9125... Rename application_spec.rb to application_controller_spec.rb
55aae12... RSpec: don't freak out about application_controller.rb
3141b0c... Update to wikitext 1.3.1
388c3f5... Fix bug in Wikitext 1.3.0
6e92fe7... Rename application.rb to application_controller.rb
ae2cb07... Add missing RSpec rake tasks file
c82af82... Capistrano: check for Rubygems 1.3.1
b4cd5bc... Update to Wikitext 1.3.0
c032fb1... Fix recent Rails breakage of template engines
8442e04... Haml: silence "puts" deprecation warnings
bd45464... Update to Haml 2.0.6
3f8ad3f... Better fix for Rails 2.2.0 model preloading breakage
6985cb3... Update to Rails 2.2.2 (final release)
316221e... Update to Rails 2.2.1
ef20863... Clean up polymorphic comment path mess
089bfd5... More 2.2.0 breakage: special handling of routing for non-new records
e0c744e... Move polymorphic_comments_path into application helper
35ded72... Fix Rails 2.2.0 breakage: route generation behaviour changed
5ab0c87... Rails 2.2.0: remove now-redundant body_html method from Articles helper
c992cda... Fix Rails 2.2.0 breakage: newly created Articles no longer have nil bodies
c3d4a47... Rails 2.2.0: silence deprecation warnings for "default_error_messages"
3817c75... RSpec: silence deprecation warnings for expect_render
5191b28... Rails 2.2.0: silence deprecation warnings for "truncate"
20f454c... Style fixes: remove unnecessary parens
8a5a83c... Fix Rails 2.2.0 breakage (cache_template_loading has been removed)
a5d0bdc... Kludge fix for Rails 2.2.0 breakage (broken extensions to ActiveRecord::Base)
d93062f... Fix Rails 2.2.0 breakage (ActionView::TemplateHandler)
12a6788... Fix Rails 2.2.0 breakage (cache_template_extensions removal)
bfd9b00... Update to Rails 2.2.0 (first release candidate, broken)
3f39f3a... Restore application.js accidentally deleted in Rails 2.1.2 upgrade
4d49bca... Another fix for Rails bug #324
bfa1d20... Re-apply private fix for Rails bug #324
627d796... Update to Rails 2.1.2 (broken)
37588c2... Update to RSpec 1.1.10
5cbb396... capistrano: warn if not on expected branch
ca7578e... Fix Rails 2.1 breakage of wikitext templates
922e595... Set up symbolic link to latest version of Atom schema
f6625eb... Move Atom schema into spec/matchers subdirectory
4a40fb6... Move custom matchers into spec/matchers/
9774fa6... Add Atom schema to spec directory
d9b9243... style: use single quotes if no interpolation is required
329425c... Fix broken blog feed with no posts
4eda948... Silence "don't put space before argument parentheses" warning
8a1aaad... Fix broken articles feed when no articles
edef14f... Don't pass custom entry URLs for posts and articles feeds
0fe019e... Update comments in the custom Atom feed helper
395dc4b... Fix breakage to blog Atom feed
57b63ce... Formatting changes in articles controller
6fcc4b5... Use Rails 2.1 conditional page caching
78a48d3... Add quick "rake db:sessions" tasks
b785d19... Capistrano: fix typo in help text
d97d4b4... Partial revert of c2509ed (Rails install_command)
93f88cb... Include comment "in context" link in notification emails
b3ea654... Update story style for RSpec 1.1.4
79bb498... Tweaks to fix story breakage under RSpec 1.1.4
84c0c37... Make stories/all.rb executable
46802fb... Update wikitext gem to 1.2.1
1d47b86... Provide rails/init.rb for wikitext gem
b075e2a... Freeze Haml gem into vendor/gems (again)
3f793f2... Private fix for Rails bug #324
e6deb19... Update to Haml 2.0.3
b0d7f8e... Update wikitext module to version 1.2
c2509ed... Fix for Rails bug #1003 (rake gems:unpack breakage)
77c346f... Update comments about Rails ticket #324
e0ed3f8... Fix broken article#new template
5c8a021... Rake: use "ruby" method instead of backticks
3557d39... Style changes to stories/wiki.rb
297e6fd... Make stories/all a standalone executable
d6cbeb1... Style changes to sessions stories
0ace555... Add spec:stories task to run all stories
92c90af... Restore application.js file
2dd0e01... Add "show" link to comment editing template
257661e... Capistrano: add maintenance page tips to help text
52e1ade... Move Haml back into vendor/plugins (again)
b84941a... Capistrano: make sure "rake gems:build" runs from appropriate directory
f9378ed... Many specs for cache updates in "commentable" models
df16dd3... Fix commentable "updated_at" bug
7f746ae... Add shared searchable spec placeholder file
a8a04e3... Update to Rails 2.1.1
7d31c0e... Capistrano: check for RubyGems 1.1.1
d51249c... Back out the REXML vulnerability fix
3b3e3e8... Tweak shared classifiable specs for new RSpec
de9d337... Move "classifiable" specs to more consistent location
f6d7779... Silence deprecation warning triggered by RSpec 1.1.4
7fc59c9... Drop unnecessary ".rb" from require statement
b7146b0... Add note to Commentable module
9e62942... Move Classifiable module under ActiveRecord::Acts
73f47f4... Eliminate ambiguous module names in Taggable module
dfdc9f6... Remove useless ClassMethods module from Searchable module
ea56b47... Fix comment typo in Capistrano deploy file
e5b7322... Clarify reason for update_caches_after_create
8d59641... Trim update_caches_after_destroy method
88ec601... Better cache updating for moderated comments
b7f37c7... Don't let spam comments bump issues up the list
1d1a6c8... Fix for REXML vulnerability
00a9a9c... Update notes on "rails/init.rb" in wikitext gem
3808f57... Update to Haml 2.0.2
889fc07... Remove workaround or Rails ticket #275
ae79cd6... Update to Rails 2.1
49e4217... Update application controller specs for Rails 2.1
3fe41c9... Use ActiveRecord's new "first" and "last" methods when possible
07c76ed... Simplify taggable_link method
d01ad18... Simplify polymorphic_comments_path method
6cb5307... Routing: makeover for confirmations model
58dcb9b... Routing: "blog_index_path" becomes "posts_path"
32a8b59... Routing: wiki_path becomes articles_path
1cb2e60... Partially revert aa466b4
aa466b4... Add deployment notes and comment out auto-building on deploy
342f3d2... Remove Makefile from frozen wikitext extension
7a818a2... Capistrano: update built extensions in frozen gems on update
eadde08... Rake: add "gems:clean" task
cd189f4... Move forgery secret into application config file
66a2833... Move session secret out into configuration file
49ff4c6... Clean temporary build files from frozen wikitext gem
bf07721... Add arch-specific wikitext build for Linux
c2ac696... Fix Rails load ordering of frozen gems
4a0d977... Freeze wikitext 1.1.1 gem into "vendor"
7bdf2f4... Capistrano: don't depend on frozen gems and plugins
0fd6b60... Use Rails gem dependency for loading the wikitext gem
e1fe380... Fixes for Rails gems dependencies
a73e850... Update to Rails 2.1.0_RC1
17c76e7... Fix subtle bugs in partials specs
9caee6e... Dump unneeded "preserve" calls
dbe95cc... Use Haml's "ugly" mode
cc6d09b... Don't auto-preserve when in ugly mode
ea76f65... Upgrade to Haml 2.0
4c2f3d3... Upgrade to RSpec 1.1.4
24b95b4... Don't advertise atom feeds on private issues
489f242... Document problems with Atom feeds on private issues
d7f0437... Note forthcoming changes in caches_action
b06469b... Import styles into maintenance page
6de162e... Fix search controller spec breakage
cc9f0ac... Capistrano: override default deploy:web:disable task
89672b4... Add custom maintenance page
e245fb9... Update static error pages
a7cd867... Update non-JS fallback "search" link in navbar
07a9212... Scope search results according to the logged-in user
de83072... Add links to tag search from index and show templates
bdf2bf9... Correct off-by-one error in query limits
1a30f2f... Switch navbar search field to full-text search
e65c6c3... Minor cleanup to search form template spec
e464395... Show more issue information in search results
c6303e5... Log warnings if search index is out of date
6b95594... Handle deleted and destroyed models
0721f17... Fix breakage in shared classifiable specs
27 April 2008
- Roll out basic prototype of full-text search: at the moment, weblog posts, wiki articles, issue tracker tickets and forum topics are all indexed, but comments attached to them are not.
23 April 2008
- Fix destructive indenting by Haml when re-editing in the "new issue" form (visible as unwanted indenting when redisplaying the form, as will happen when you supply invalid input and the validation fails)
21 April 2008
- Fix "last post" information on topics with an anonymous last commenter (see bug #671)
- Lots of CSS tweaks and improvements
17 April 2008
- CSS:
- changed to add a grey border around the main content of the area for the page, give the pages a less crowded appearance
- Added underlining to headings in several places to improve visual separation between different page sections
- Easy-to-use and flexible search added to the issue tracker
- The Atom feed for the blog is now page-cached (not really a user-visible change, but it means that you can hit the feed more often without running into performance issues)
- Improve navigation between pages in the issue tracker and support index by adding more links and making them more prominent
- Add breadcrumbs to the forum index (the topic index and individual topic pages already had this)
- Add breadcrumbs to individual weblog post pages
16 April 2008
- Use "fuzzy matching" for forum comment dates; this eliminates repetitious labels like "Posted 2 days ago, edited 2 days ago" (this would be reduced to just "Posted 2 days ago", or just "2 days ago" when combined with the other changes to make dates more concise)
- Use more concise date formats; cuts down on repeated "noise" words on the page
- Fix destructive indenting by Haml when re-editing in the "new issue" form (visible as unwanted indenting when redisplaying the form, as will happen when you supply invalid input and the validation fails)
21 April 2008
- Fix "last post" information on topics with an anonymous last commenter (see bug #671)
- Lots of CSS tweaks and improvements
17 April 2008
- CSS:
- changed to add a grey border around the main content of the area for the page, give the pages a less crowded appearance
- Added underlining to headings in several places to improve visual separation between different page sections
- Easy-to-use and flexible search added to the issue tracker
- The Atom feed for the blog is now page-cached (not really a user-visible change, but it means that you can hit the feed more often without running into performance issues)
- Improve navigation between pages in the issue tracker and support index by adding more links and making them more prominent
- Add breadcrumbs to the forum index (the topic index and individual topic pages already had this)
- Add breadcrumbs to individual weblog post pages
16 April 2008
- Use "fuzzy matching" for forum comment dates; this eliminates repetitious labels like "Posted 2 days ago, edited 2 days ago" (this would be reduced to just "Posted 2 days ago", or just "2 days ago" when combined with the other changes to make dates more concise)
- Use more concise date formats; cuts down on repeated "noise" words on the page
- CSS:
- changed to add a grey border around the main content of the area for the page, give the pages a less crowded appearance
- Added underlining to headings in several places to improve visual separation between different page sections
- Easy-to-use and flexible search added to the issue tracker
- The Atom feed for the blog is now page-cached (not really a user-visible change, but it means that you can hit the feed more often without running into performance issues)
- Improve navigation between pages in the issue tracker and support index by adding more links and making them more prominent
- Add breadcrumbs to the forum index (the topic index and individual topic pages already had this)
- Add breadcrumbs to individual weblog post pages