1.1.0 “Black Hole” 2010-03-22¶ ↑

Ruby 1.9 support. The big one. Merb now runs on ruby 1.9.1. This mandated some
small changes to the internals as well as some changes to the specs. However,
it shouldn't require any changes in your app level code, or at least the merb
specific parts of your app level code.

Unicorns! Merb is now better behaved as a rack app and works with a config.ru
file[2]. This change should make working with whatever is the latest and
greatest ruby webserver a lot easier.

Bugfixes. So many bug fixes. As part of the release process we've done our
best to clear out many of the bugs which have been gathering dust over the
past year. Some do still remain, but those generally require a more complex
solution which needs some thought.

!!!BC!!! Dependency handling using Bundler
In this version we dropped old way of loading dependencies using the Kernel
extensions and started to use Bundler for dependency management. This allows
us to move the whole dependency handling and gem management outside the
Merb. Therefore we can simplify some internals and remove some of the Kernel
monkeypatching:

The old Kernel.dependency and Kernel.dependencies will only 'require
gem_name' or 'require require_as' when you call this methods. These methods
will also emit the DEPRECATED warnings when you will use them. If you see
the warning you should move your dependency to the Gemfile or Rakefile.

If you used dependencies to load exact version of the Gem and you have
installed multiple versions of the same gem you now get one more DEPRECATED
warning. This is because we don't use 'gem' command from RubyGems which was
used deep inside to load exact gem version. ALSO THE LATEST VERSION OF THE
GEM WILL BE LOADED BECAUSE WE DO SIMPLE 'require'.

Also methods: use_orm, use_test, use_testing_framework and use_template_engine
DON'T require any gems now, you must require it in Gemfile.

Merb generators was changed to generate you Gemfile for your application and
settings instead of the dependencies.rb.

So what still works? Almost everything except it doesn't defer to the Merb
start and doesn't load exact version of gem if more versions are installed:

dependency "json"                           => works
dependency "rspec", :require_as => 'spec'   => works try to require 'spec'
dependency "json", '1.1.6'                  => works unless you have
                                               >= 1.1.6 installed
dependency "json" { }                       => works but doesn't yield

For more information how to migrate to Bundler see:
http://wiki.github.com/merb/merb/howto-using-the-bundler

Bugs fixed¶ ↑

[merb-core]    #1040 Allow using <%== %> escaped version of <%= %>
[merb-core]    #1068 Correctly handle HEAD requests (This requires manual
alteration of rack.rb)
[merb-core]    #1174 Merb::Config[:use_mutex] issue
'sel' to string before comparing to string
[merb-core]    #1258 Sessions could be overwritten under certain (rare)
situations.
[merb-core]    #1288 Fix for run_later in clusters
[merb-core]    #1298 Fix potential timing attack on cookie sessions.
[merb-core]    #1304 Multipart input parsing produces wrong checkbox input
[merb-core]    #1310 Prevent mongrel bloat when streaming files
[merb-core]    #1317 Merb now returns correct cookie headers
[merb-core]    Improvements to handling of conditional validators

0.9.8 “Time Machine” 2008-06-10¶ ↑

Pre-release contributors file update.
Nillify Merb.logger first.
Legacy Merb apps log again. And Merb tells you where it logs on boot unless you are testing.
Fixes up RSpec matcher for request helper
remove vestigal  @_template_stack variable.
remove rogure require no longer needed
compile templates with preambles to assign locals, support recompiling partial templates if previously unseen locals are provided
Add a note on Dictionary and inflection code to public changelog.
Nuke files that are already part of Extlib.
Update public changelog.
Fixed Merb::BootLoader::Router issue
-core now depends on most recent Extlib
Revert "Added MinimalPrivilege to merb.thor. Thanks namelessjon."
Fixed stats.rake to check if directory exists
Move inflection code and Dictionary to extlib.
Rakefiles should be empty by default (so RSpec is not pushed down test unit users' throat).
Added MinimalPrivilege to merb.thor. Thanks namelessjon.
Added Merb::BootLoader::Router
Improve public specs for logger. Use Mash for log levels.
Untabify logger.rb.
Allow Merb.disable(:signals) to keep Merb from installing any signal handlers.
Added the ability to specify resource actions in the block
Fixed bug where subgems (of meta-gems) weren't reinstalled each time
Added process title reporting as per: LH #517
Making the :key a synonym to :keys for Behavior#resource
Fixing the rspec error when running rake tasks
Cleaned up the specs. Removed any stray pending specs.
Added stacking and redirecting deferred routing blocks.
Removed private/dispatch/route_params_spec.rb
New spec helpers ported over. Old #request helper becomes #mock_request, which uses some mocking and stubbing to set up the request. The new #request API uses no mocking, and has the following API changes:
Removed spec/private/config
Added dependency 'foo', :immediate => true for loading dependencies immediately
call to_s in the csrf middlewre
make StreamWrapper more duck typed to the old body string.
If --log-level or --log is explicitly given, never log to STDOUT, alsways to file
If Merb.env?(:test) we don't need ugly  = true spread all over the place
use Proc === @body instead
Bring the console adapter's #url back into action
update specs for new rack stream_wrapper
Updating streaming methods to work on *all* rack adapters.
Make Merb::Config[]= work without calling setup 1st
Default to  = 'UTF8' - you can just set this in init.rb if needed
Colorful GemManagement
Removed unused directory under spec.
Reorganized URL generation methods across Controller classes
Added a :singular option to resource route building
merb -k works right
Fixes stupid issue in spec loader
Route matching handles slashes according to the RFC
Added the #resource controller helper for URL generation.
Fixes #503; raise InternalServerError works now.
We shouldn't use minigems explicitly in our code (yet)
Add missing pieces of forking awesomeness.
Executable wrappers use /usr/bin/env again - run them with /path/to/ruby -S if you need a specific Ruby version
Merge in forking branch.
Use trenary operator here.
capture returns return value of passed in block if it is not a template block
Updated PUBLIC_CHANGELOG regarding Merb::RakeHelper
reverts URI generation on requests
Updates full_uri for the changes to the Request#protocol
Reorganized merb-core/tasks/merb to require merb-core/tasks/merb_rake_helper (see merb-gen too)
Cleanup of tasks/merb_rake_helper.rb
Added :gemspec task to Rakefile
Fixed executable wrapper code (for loading local gems)
Added Merb::RakeHelper.install_package method to install packages directly
Merb::RakeHelper now handles local ./bin and GEM_DIR installs correctly
Rakefile now uses Merb::RakeHelper.install
Added GemManagement module - working towards new install/uninstall rake tasks
Removed Merb::BootLoader::ReloadTemplates; Merb::Config[:reload_templates] needs to be set explicitly
Marked Kernel#track_dependency as @api private - updated specs to reflect this
Added warning when specs are run without memcached being available
Refactored Kernel#dependency and #load_dependency to work with Gem::Dependency
Include request uri in routing exception raised by request helpers.
Added require 'thread' explicitly for Mutex to be available
Revert "Initial support for fast redeploys and code reloading via forks."
Revert "Split out the code transaction into a method and do some experimentation with cluster forking."
Revert "Better exit message"
Revert "Initial experiments are a success. TODO: Move the logic out of mongrel and make a proper clustering instead of hardcoding to 4"
Fixes issue people were having
Initial experiments are a success. TODO: Move the logic out of mongrel and make a proper clustering instead of hardcoding to 4
Split out the code transaction into a method and do some experimentation with cluster forking.
Better exit message
Initial support for fast redeploys and code reloading via forks.
Fixed that YAML plugin configuratator wasn't requiring YAML.
Reindent core_ext/kernel.rb.
Register dependencies even after the BootLoader has finished
Fixes Merb::Request#protocol to remove the ://.  May Break things in apps if you're checking protocol directly.
Moves actual url generation methods onto the request object from the controller.
Also updates the Merb::Request#redirect method to be usable just like the controller version.
Throw the correct error when generating a non existent route.
Modify throw_content to not append. Add append_content for that purpose.
Significant router refactoring and feature development
Run specs in groups
Added more discriptive message when a class fails to load
Optimized Merb::Request.query_parse - fixed silly spec
Update Rack application spec to reflect current affairs.
Document template_for.
Make merb fast again. Also make rake install work from any Ruby via -S
ControllerMixin#html_escape => #escape_html (bring it in line with #escape_xml).
Protected makes no sense for class methods.
Remove dead code from responder.
Adds abstract! and abstract? for controller classes for your inheritance pleasure
Server#add_irb_trap should play nice with ruby-debugger.
Reworked the Server#add_irb_trap to suppress the warnings.
added flag for an IRB trap
Add links to nginx_send_file examples: gist and app at GitHub.
Untabify fixture controller for streaming.
Make Merb::Controller#nginx_send_file more user friendly.
More fine-grained check to see if a local ./bin executable should have been used
Ignore products RDoc generates.
Include RDoc in the gem.
Ignore RDoc template cache.
Remove RDoc template cache from version control.
Session cookies now expire at the end of a browser session again (instead of 2 weeks)
Second attempt: fixed load_dependency (hopefully)
Fixed failing spec regarding 'dependency' change
Make flat! more useful
This rescue is obsolete and is obscuring useful failing information, as well as loading
from the system even when you require a specific version that isn't available in the bundled gems.
Clean before installation. Remove *.so and *.log under spec.
Make gem 3 times lighter.
Merb::Release is gone.
Bump up version
Set @_content_type before running transform blocks
sneaky merge failure piece that shouldn't be here
Revert "Add specs for action-level only_provides"
Revert "add specs for does_not_provide"
add specs for does_not_provide
Add specs for action-level only_provides
Make controller.route work

0.9.7 “Universe In A Bundle” 2008-13-09¶ ↑

Made the post body available to the routing when testing a request.
Better local gems dir detection and end-user feedback
Updated PUBLIC_CHANGELOG regarding gem management and merb.thor
Fixed compatibility with the *new* bundle logic
Made request('/path', {}, {:post_body => 'some XML'}) not setting the post body to nil.
Added two specs for setting request.raw_post. Passes for #dispatch_to, fails for #request.
You can now use request_to with a post body:
It's official: Thor is now a dependency
Removed MerbScriptHelper - simplified loading bundled gems - see merb.thor
Bug Fix: Cookie headers not being formatted correctly
Added request.session.clear! method to clear and destroy the session (including the _session_id cookie itself)
Both memcache-client and memcached gems are supported by the session store
Added better query param parsing (naive but adequate) for nested params
Added specs to make sure blank cookie options aren't used for Set-Cookie
Fixed cookie issues in WebKit/Safari browsers
Log ControllerExceptions with error level and only ServerErrors with info.
Modified absolute_url to handle an object as well as a Hash
Touches to new sessions: doc and minor code improvements.
More meaningful exception message when no session container is configured.
Make it clear how session mixin makes it's way into controller.
Leave a note where new sessions doc needs to be improved.
Fix smart formatting.
Give smart people proper credit when you use their work.
Loosen extlib dependency a bit.
Meaningful message when Memcached session store can't be loaded because of load error.
Remove libxml-ruby and memcache-client dev dependencies.
Require memcached gem where memcached session store is defined (it's lazy loaded).
Meaninful message when have_xpath matcher is used but libxml-ruby fails to load.
Don't blow up when there are no system paths.

0.9.6 “Therapy session” 2008-08-09¶ ↑

Merge in simple conditional get support at controller level.
Merged in new bundling (aka freezer) branch
Merged in new-sessions branch
Simplify one more clever line.
Trenary operator is always hard to read.
Added PUBLIC_CHANGELOG note on Language::English::Inflector => English::Inflect
Filters with procs created via class methods have identical signatures regardless if they handle content differently or not. So modified add_filter to just append procs to the filter list.
Consolidating raw Rakefile commands to merb-core/tasks/merb_rake_helper.rb
Update contributors list.
Ticket #461 - This simply adds output for what host and port the adapter has started on.
More Language::English::Inflect to English::Inflect changes - getting ready for Extlib move soon
Language::English::Inflect => English::Inflect name changes
Use frozen strings where possible.
First pass at adding in CSRF protection in to Rack middleware.
Query string of the format "foo=bar&foo=baz" should return params {"foo" => "baz"}
Fixed multiple select not honored in params bug
Public specs for 'fragment' changes in url.
AbstractController now uniformly uses instance_eval for Procs where previously
Renamed anchor to fragment along with some minor tweeks to follow rfc2396 better.
Add support for :anchor when generating url's. Ex. url(:root, :anchor => :lower_half).
Revert "Make Merb::Request#protocol return valid protocol names (http, not http://)."
Adds specs for previous commit
Fixes display @object, :template => "path/to/foo"
Clean up Rakefile.
Remove a line of extra code
Set cookie expires to nil when session_expiry is set to 0.
ConditionalGet refactoring.
Fix: ConditionalGet should not return the message body when the status code is 304.
Rescue Exception subclasses, not only StandardError subclasses.
Make Merb::Request#protocol return valid protocol names (http, not http://).
Add :protocol and :host options to absolute_url
extends basic authentication a bit to allow usage outside of before filters

0.9.5 “Knife and Spoons” 2008-26-08¶ ↑

Add Hpricot to dependencies: provided RSpec matchers depend on it.
Documentation fixes
Make Rack application set Date header as required by RFC2616.
Port Django's conditional GET middleware to Rack.
Fix passenger issue
Make Autotest consume less CPU by adding excludes.
Add extract! experimentally
Adds dev deps on rake install
Add necessary dev dependencies
Make route_to(...).with matcher work properly with empty hashes
Make Merb::Request#query_parse a bit faster.
Speed up dispatcher specs by using libxml
throw :halt, nil spec
More rigid specs
merb-core really cannot use >= with extlib 0.9.3 at this point, so update gemspec
Use Logger from Extlib
Fix issue with Safari having weird ordering by fixing the issue in general.
Fixes up a bunch of specs
Add ContentLength middleware.
Rename Rack middleware spec file
Add Tracer middleware.
Improve the documentation of AbstractController.
Move Merb::Rack::Middleware#deferred\? to Merb::Rack::Application.
No longer use Pathname for Merb.root and friends.
fixed merb_erb bug
readded _generator_scope methods with deprecation warnings
added use_template_engine method and removed generator_scope code that is no longer needed
Add clear_content to renderer

0.9.4 “Leave No Broken Windows” 2008-12-08¶ ↑

Update required Ruby version to 1.8.6.
Make dispatch_to set params[:controller] and params[:action].
Update RedirectTo matcher documentation.
redirect_to matcher now has :message option
Adds some detail to the public changelog
Fix rakefile
Make history Rake tasks work again.
Add contributors file.
Add Rake tasks that list and update contributors file.
A bit more readable spec example titles. Follow one assertion per test rule.
Make Merb::Controller#send_file set header with respect to Rack specification.
Removed TODO in Dispatcher#handle.
More updates to Merb::Request methods documentation.
Document Router#route_for(request).
Document some new Request methods.
Doc correction: Request#params returns instance of Mash.
Doc correction: Request#body_and_query_params returns instance of Mash.
! for methods that change the receiver
Remove old code
Moves session fixation into request
re-add permanent redirects
Don't need this spec anymore.
More work on the dispatcher.
Documentation improvement + improvement in division of responsibilities.
Before moving stuff into the Rack adapter.
Additional refactor of the default Exceptions to use an actual Merb controller. Almost ready for a merge. Yeehaw!
Even more awesome dispatcher improvements.
Fixes an issue with status symbols
Class extensions spec moved to Extlib.
Move all accessors in AbstractController to the top so one can see them easily.
We don't need this anymore
Continues dispatch refactor. Exceptions now maintain a stack that is reported in the case of exceptions that, themselves, throw exceptions.
Document :with option of filters.
Fixed a typo in AbstractController documentation.
Extra specs and love to Merb::Controller._session_*
Added fixture config/init.rb
Resolved conflict after cherry-pick of 9d1a11ff.
Fixtures and pending specs for controller/cookie store integration.
Re-set session cookie expiry and friends once init file/configuration is loaded.
Two more specs for class_inheritable_accessor.
Make spec for #342 do correct assertions.
Fixed a bug where changes to inherited controller filters would bleed acrosss siblings
the dispatcher specs
Add more edge-case specs to Dispatcher and make sure they pass.
Make Cookie#set_cookie handle more options. Improve spec coverage.
Refactor Dispatcher.handle to reduce complexity
Fix some ruby warnings
Added flog tasks to rake
add in stats task
Forgotten changes to Rakefile.
resource urls with additional params
Remove double-start in Thin adapter.
Merb::SimpleSet => Extlib::SimpleSet
merb-extlib => extlib
add spec for empty raw_post on xml content type
make sure to resuce JSON parse errors and return {}
Use Pathname in some more places, fix breakages.
Added more documentation for some of the extra options available to #partial
Temp commit.
Relative :template paths can be extensionless again.
Oops - forgot some files...
Fixed nasty bugs in controller/mixins/responder and its specs.
Reworded the documentation for #partial a little bit
Added some documentation for the new partial collection counter
Slight refactoring of the partial method
Adding views for the new partial collection counter specs
Adding the current index and collection size for partials rendered with a collection
Use gem release task that's in Extlib now.
If someone can figure out why this is already defined, please let me know
Yeah... not a good idea
ADd push_paths to the load path.
another tiny tweak
Fixes open IO issue
Switch to merged extlib.
Use Pathname in some more places, fix breakages.
Move to merb-extlib is almost there.
Output a warning about merb-extlib if it can't be loaded.
Applying patch to allow use of thin_turbo adapter. Thanks dkubb!
Did I really commit that?
Use :info as default log level for now: people wonder "where the output is gone".
Make sure default config has log level of error so template inlining bootloader won't dump everything to the tty.
Do not reference to old merb.yml in doc.
whoops... dup
Add support for argument capture and fix $DEBUG bootloader stuff [#390 state:resolved]
Ignore temp Emacs files.
Generate tags only for lib.
Adds Rake tasks to generate Emacs tags.
Touch RDoc of LoadClasses bootloder.
LoadClasses#remove_file => LoadClasses#remove_classes_in_file.
Output extra information on boot when verbose config option is given from
Make Logger bootloader print meaningful warning when RubyGems is outdated.
capture_erb correctly passes arguments to the block again
Let world know what this delete vs. destroy thing is all about.
Add support for OPTIONS
display doesn't throw an error if a layout is not found, even if one is specified (because of class-wide layout options)
throw_content now concatenates, not replaces, content
Added view for throw_content spec
Clean up resource regexps after ; separator is gone.
@@parent_resources, not @@parent_resource
Semicolon as action separator for resources is no longer supported: breaks basic http auth in Safari.
Small doc update.  Thanx jackdempsey
Adds message support (like flash in Rails but with somewhat different semantics)
Add .tmproj to the list of ignores
Fix bug with :status
Spec for :status in display
display handles :status and :location
Improved RDoc of Merb#load_dependencies.
script/frozen-merb => merb-freezer in RDoc
Adjusted logging message for thin sockets vs ports.
Added socket option to thin.rb and to the command line options.
send_file opens files in 'rb' binary mode so windows doesn't shit itself
added add_generators, which allows plugins to load their own generator in the same way as rakefiles
fix nginx_send_file
Spec for previously applied patch to Behavior#defer_to.
use Route#register in defer_to so that deferred routes get an index
Make Autotest ignore doc/ as well.
Ensure Autotest ignores changes in log directory.
Add helpers directory to load path
Modules don't get duped right.
Redo Merb's inheritable_accessors so that they have correct semantics, then redo everything that uses inheritable_accessors so they don't have to hack around the bad semantics.
Added spec for the route matcher testing regexp routes. [#386]
Add Merb.started? alias for Merb.started reader.
Add reader for @started flag which shows when Merb environment is started.
Update memory session storage documentation.
Use warn logger level instead of debug, if session persisting fails.
FileUtils#touch only added mtime option in ruby 1.8.6. let's use File#utime instead
better log message
rescue excpetions in Worker thread, log them and then restart the work queue
Router now can do r.match("/this/old/url").redirect("/where/this/resides/now").
Refactor Merb::Test::RequestHelper and introduce build_request helper.
spoke too soon.
we actually don't need to log this at all as its logged latert in the _benchmarks
Update link to wiki page on Rack in exception.
Add link to Rack page at wiki to Controller not found exception. This confuses people a lot.
Log namespaced controller name when it's class is not found.
I will test first next time, I promise.
Tell what's actually started when Dispatcher begins to handle request.
Fixed typo in yet another exception message.
Log an info message when route fixation actually happens. Those heavily using Flash will find it helpful.
Log a warning if controller class cannot be found.
A bit more verbose exception message when route does not specify a controller.
Documentation: add deprecation warning to AbstractController. Manually applied patch from dstar.
Increase header level on sub-headers of Filters in AbstractController
Fixes request helper bug [#378: resolved]
Fixes case of :format being ignored.
If the spec.opts file exists, use it.
use Thread.pass to avoid running newly queued item before the action's thread finishes
Added Merb::Worker. You can now add a block to be run in a separate thread
Let's try again, this time with <% end =%>
Try #concat to resolve some issues.
One more time.
Should handle denormalized multiline blocks now.
wycats needs to learn to escape pipes.
Make Merb::Plugins.config[:foo] default to {}
Long lines make wycats' eyes' bleed. Plus, why do all those .joins twice?
jackdempsey's inflector improvements (backported from wycats' patch to Rails)
Fixes typo.
<%= now takes a block in Erubis. Erubis buffer now an ivar (@_erb_buf) so eval is no longer required for capture. Helpers that take a block should now return a string.
Fixes the after filters
Reorganize experimental stuff.
Additional slight efficiency and readability improvement.
Improve speed of content-type=. 5% speed on hello world requests.
Improve the speed of _perform_content_negotiation (and got 10% better speed on requests)
Old stuff that should be committed.
Speed up synonym lookup by order of magnitude :(
add Merb::Rack::Profiler middleware. to use add the following to your config/rack.rb file:
update license
Missing require
require 'stringio'
Add support for non-standard template reloading. Plugin authors need to override load_template_io to handle special reloading logic.
Add support for IO templates instead of just paths. See PLUGIN_API_CHANGELOG for details.
add swiftiplied mongrel rack adapter.
Swapped the order of helper and controller in the default_framework
Why should capture be private?
Merb::Config[:framework] now needs absolute paths to work (breaks BC)
Merb::Config[:framework] paths now pickup files using glob **  .rb unless specified otherwise
Don't automatically use Facebook signature
Fixes failing spec.
make the default rake task 'specs' so running rake in merb-core just runs the specs
Rename @status to @_status
Avoid adding nil values in place of missing keys for Hash#only
Fix issue with null segments
Fixed session cookie expires value [#366 state:resolved]
Made HTTP method override proc-based and pluggable. [#364]
siiiiiigh.
Revert partial counter and yielding.
Remove some duplication
For crying out loud.
Refactor display. WARNING: This commit might not be stable. I need to add a bunch more specs for display before I feel confident.
Make the TemplateNotFound error read better. Slight refactor of _get_layout.
Fix _template_for so it's actually readable
uhhhhhhhh...
Added Merb::Router.reset! and Merb::Router.capture
Speedup Route URL generation
Start work on fixing contaminated cousins bug.
Changed controller inheritance of _template_root
Added the ability to use full/absolute template paths for render, display and partial views
This cannot be tested this way. It needs to be tested as a public spec (testing it privately here was a cop-out and fails when I fixed up the way dependency works).
Allows passage of query string via env["QUERY_STRING"] in tests. [#358 state:resolved]
Handles use of dependency after BootLoading. [#360 state:resolved]
properly set the session_id_key
added 2 specs for multipart formdata: (1) for checking request with IO, (2) for testing GET with content_type not erroring on multipart/form-data absence; fixed error with multipart/form-data absence.
Made Class a lot more sane.
Fix README for merb-gen app foo
Do not duplicate work Merb::Template.template_extensions does in Templates bootloader.
Make exception message when Merb cannot find template explain what it was
Fixed 2 problems with multipart form upload after application is deployed to Tomcat via warble: (1) The @body object in this environment is an IO object, not a StringIO, so doesn't have a size method, and (2) 'tempfile' needs to be explicitly required.
made only and except uglier and faster
Preserve order parse query, respect query string override in test request
Added partial counter and yielding for collections
Remove occasionly committed *.rbc files.
Ignore *.rbc created by Rubinius compiler.
Send the route into the controller
Add Merb::Request.browser_method_workarounds
Revert ca92bdfc89afda04cbb4fd3d3e5848648cc0b326
Refactored Merb::BootLoader::LoadClasses.reload into an additional remove_file method for other usage
Fixed some failing specs
Added rake :audit namespace to list routes, controllers and actions
Remove occasionly committed *.rbc files.
Ignore *.rbc created by Rubinius compiler.
Make obj.full_const_get more robust
forgot to comment out the text
added DHH copyright notice to conre_ext/class.rb
Better usage of merb_rake_helper.rb
Added tasks/merb_rake_helper.rb - removed it from merb-more
Refactored Merb::Controller.callable_actions
Fixing bug in the rspec route matcher.
More useful error for display errors
Make load_paths a dictionary so models load first.
Added Merb::Template.template_extensions as a semi-public method for getting known template extensions
Prevent anonymous controller classes from making a Helper module
We've Been Dup'd! - fixed nasty bug concerning class inheritable attrs
Added Object.full_const_set
Add helper for full_uri
Adds a timestamp to a requests output
Fixed documentation examples for dispatch spec helpers
Added public method Merb::BootLoader::LoadClasses.load_classes(*paths)
Only do the rubygems hack if it's needed and deal with cases where people are using the Gem cache library without using the commands.
Updated docs on Merb#merge_env
Merb Personalized Environments; Completed Merb#merge_env method, now accepts boolean parameter to optionally use the merged environments database connection
fix typo in spec
Check to see if the session responds to :data
make nice for windows - remove app level loading (is handled in rakefile in merb-more now
Typos
YARD conversion of set.rb and time.rb
YARD conversion of rubygems.rb
YARD conversion of object_space.rb
YARD conversion of object.rb
YARD conversion of mash.rb
YARD conversion of kernel.rb
YARD conversion for hash.rb
Convert class.rb over to YARD.
Convert string.rb over to YARD format.
Patch for missing inner_content method bug in HasTag
Correct lable and line number in Router#compile
Make merb.show_routes show named routes a bit more verbose.
Make merb.show_routes a bit more verbose.
Use single symbol instead of Array for ORM/test framework generator scopes.
Add links to source at GitHub to boot diagram
Merb core boot diagram is done and prettified
Add support for a :session_cookie_domain config option to allow for setting the session cookie's domain.
Add more advanced nested routes examples to Merb::Router::Behavior#match documentation.
Add a bunch of pretty advanced spec examples for nested matches in routes.
Code clean-up behavior.rb
Created Documentation for new #match functionality
Changes to behavior.rb to allow for :controller, :actions and :params options to be passed in
Implemented Merb::Router::Behavior#match! that is a shortcut for match(...).to({}).
Improve Merb boot diagram.
Make each subsequent call to use_orm just replace effect of previos.
Remove WIP spec for Merb::Router::Behavior#redirect.
fix typo in request_spec.rb
Needs to raise here since if the generator scope has more than one ORM the geneartors will not work.
Log instead of raising when dependencies mechanism this ORM required twice.
Get rid of Kernel#registered_orm?, it is no longer in use.
Make Kernel#registred_orm? use simple include lookup.
Fix spec and Kernel#registred_orm? conditions bug.
Fix a typo.
Fixed erronous documentation in Merb::Router::Behavior
Working on Behaviour#redirect feature: stashing changes.
update callable_actions to exclude any methods beggining with an _underscope
Adds template-checking code to branch where :with option is specified in partials.
Add two notes on layout method versus :layout option of render method.
Forget to add template for added spec example.
Add spec example for render :layout => false that overrides layout.
More sweet empty lines management in controller fixtures.
Clean up empty lines in fixture controller.
Fix _template_for documentation: content type does not default to nil.
Update render method documentation, we support :layout => false.
JSON objects that do not inflate to hashes should populate params[:inflated_object] (Ticket #316)
update new rack middleware machinery to be more merb style in the bootloader
Changed MerbDispatch to MerbApplication. Fixed error in deferred? call chain.
More flexible composition of merb application
Start implementing Merb::Router::Behavior#redirect.
A note on condition block and deferred routes.
Note on thread safety of routes compilation.
Explain what Merb::Router does and what routes compilation is.
Explain how "form used by Merb::Router" is often referred.
Be explicit on what Merb::Router::Route#if_condition actually does and how it is used.
Add a note that Merb::Router::Route#generate uses #to_param on parameters.
Be explicit on what Merb::Router::Route#generate actually does.
Add a note to Merb::Router::Route#name documentation.
Add note on string representation of routes.
More explicit documentation for Merb::Router::Router#register.
Add section on fixation of routes.
Another take on better Merb::Router::Route documentation.
New Merb::Router::Route documentation probably got a bit better.
Something that looks like detailed Merb::Router::Route but needs a lot of work.
Add first naive spec examples for Merb::Router::Route#compile.
Use .prepare when we do not really need .prepend
Made sure default format response_header can set explicit Content-Type header
Default format response_headers cannot overwrite runtime-set (controller) headers
Mirror plural spec from singular. Fix a couple of revealed failures.
Actually implemented Merb.add_mime_type's new_response_headers
Add cases that were failing in pluralization specs to singularization spec.
Fix failures in pluralization specs. Add more cases.
spec/private/vendor/inflector => spec/private/vendor/facets
Pluralization spec examples.
Move singularization specs to separate file.
More spec examples for inflector.
Improve spec coverage of inflector.
Improve inflector spec coverage: separate cases into groups.
Fix a typo exposed by spec suite.
Initial set of spec examples for inflector.
Changed vague :request_headers term into :accepts (meaning HTTP Accept header)
Sweet empty lines management in spec helper.
Increase sleep time reloader spec.
Unwanted change to autotest slipped in, must get better at git
More reliable reloader test with fewer sleeps
remove :nodoc: from merb-core DO NOT USE :nodoc: EVAR!!
More lower-level spec examples for Merb::Router::Route.
More lower-level specs for Merb::Routing::Route.
Initial set of lower-level specs for Merb::Router::Route methods.
Rename file with extra unit specs for Merb::Router
Removed extra comment.
Finished Merb::Router unit-ish spec.
Initial lower-level specs for router.
Fix for users with spaces in gem path
Add missing specs for route fixation.
Add matched_route_for spec helper to get raw Route instance.
Exclude unwanted files from rcov analysis.
Make Rakefile respect GEM_HOME. Thanks Corey Jewett.
Add extra output lines to Merb::Server methods if verbose mode is on.
Add -V/--verbose options.
Improve documentation of session persist/finalize exception callbacks.
Initial specs for Merb::SessionMixin
Tiny documentation touchups
Require RubyGems first before spec to satisfy Autotest.
Exception handler callbacks for finalize_session and persist
Update Merb core boot diagram a bit.
Documentation for Merb::BootLoader::DropPid bootloader.
add in string so that @element.contains? will work when @element is a string and not just Hpricot::Elem
remove hpricot as a merb-core dependency since it is never loaded at runtime.
Merb::BootLoader::Templates now uses _template_roots not just _template_root
add in support for core tasks, and first core task -- routes
Fix Webrick support by preferring REQUEST_PATH over REQUEST_URI
Changed Merb::BootLoader::BeforeAppRuns into Merb::BootLoader::BeforeAppLoads which matches Merb::BootLoader::AfterAppLoads
Added option to Controller#redirect(url, permanent) so 301 responses can be returned as well
Bump version in core to 0.9.4.
Pump version to 0.9.4.
throw argument error when filter receives an invalid option
spec for ticket 307
Update GitHub gemspec.
fixed description of daemonize spec in Merb::Config
Trick Git: change SHA1 of tree to push recent binary files changes.
Add PNG version of call stack diagram
Add call stack diagram source file, in Mind Manager format.
Add expanded call stack diagram: probably Git does not work perfectly with binary diffs.
Temporarily wipe out call stack diagram
Expand all nodes on call stack diagram.
Add Merb core call stack (yet to be finished).
Fixed cruddy doc comments.
Remove nil items from params when generating routes
Fixed typo in resource rdoc
cleaned up a bit. removed dependency on to_params value in controller test.
added ability to set the Location header with display and render
remove useless complexity from the logger.
0.9.3 changelog
Remove special case for dm-core in use_orm
removing __app_file_trace__  since it doesn't work.
Add Emacs TAGS to ignore
Explain Merb application layouts in documentation.
Benchmarks
Allow http status to be a symbol - refactored String snake_case method
Explain how to set up /lib autoload in documentation.
Make change_priveledge actually work
bump merb-core version to 0.9.3 in prep for release.
Add new -R/--rackup option to the full(-ish) list of options.
Provide opts for alternate rackup config path. This is consistent with --rackup option for thin and gives a little more freedom to specify the rackup config (instead of being forced to rack.rb).
Testing Merb::Test::RequestHelper#request method to properly handle namespaced routes
test request helpers support namespaced routes
Added parentheses to be_kind_of to get rid of warnings when running application_spec.rb
Fixing pidfiles glob on cluster and pidfile argument
replaced nested 'if' with an 'elseif'
params array serialization
Added handling of INT signal for Merb server in foreground mode
Remove redundant unescape for cookie string
Ensure that Merb::Logger doesn't try to close terminal streams.
Ensure that Merb::Logger doesn't try to close terminal streams.
Added support for multiple keys to designate a resource. For use with Datamapper composite keys support http://www.datamapper.org/articles/spotlight_on_cpk.html
Make Provide controller matcher doc conform to Merb standards.
Whoops. Had target and expected backwards.
Added Provide matcher class, so you can do "controller.should provide( :xml )" in your specs.
completed spec to Merb::Logger#new
Adding missing info about ebb adapter.
Show merb usage if first argument is not a switch
Fix a spelling error and properly RDoc'ify a method name
Fix bug in --very-flat (allow direct inheritance from Merb::Controller)
Changed copyright date in footer of HTML pages from 2007 to 2008
Append the content_type to the given :template option for render()
Replaced remaining ::STATUS constant references to .status method calls
Refactored Exception status handling/inheritance (it actually works now!)
Make Inflector#plural and Inflector#singular conform to Merb doc standard.
Update inflector documentation.
Tiny docs update to Merb::Server.
Example (from merb_sequel) and corrections to the way Merb finds out plugins Rakefiles.
Docs updates for lib/merb-core.rb.
Reasonable doc examples for Merb.push_path and Merb.remove_paths.
Fix for kill so that cli options are read and handled before kill is actually called. Need this to handle kill under custom pid file scenario.
Updating pidfile cluster fix to handle any extension.
Adding support for pidfile setting with cluster nodes setting. Moving pid file path lookup to separate method.
Correction to Merb::GlobalHelper.log_path docs.
Use Notes instead of Note in docs.
Use Notes instead of Note everywhere in docs.
Add reference to Merb configuration options list to #config method docs.
Wording (Merb::GlobalHelpers.testing? docs).
Better docs for configuration parameters.
Document Merb configuration options in one place.
Another note on framework freezing in docs.
Add explaination of freezing to the documentation
Add a note on supported session types.
Insert line for viewing convenience.
Make Merb::GlobalHelpers.deferrable_actions conform to Merb documentation standard.
Missing documentation for Merb::GlobarHelpers.deferred_actions
Update Kernel#__profile__ documentation.
make in? splat args
Add Object#in? for checking array inclusion
Removed dependency on memcache-client 'memcache_util.rb' which was dependent on ActiveRecord::Base for logging exceptions.
Update documentation to reflect changes in the way #display handles custom options.
Make #display method pass all 'unknown' options to serialization method.
Adds the github gemspec file
Adds Code for generating a gemspec for github
Adds a question method to determine environment.  eg Merb.env?(:production)
Give useful information when no template is found for a partial
Really resolve merge conflicts.
Provide hook for param filtering
hopefully the last fix for session fixation, woot woot
Be clear about what is the default init file Merb uses in RDoc.
A bit clearer --init-file option description.
Fix header shown in help: Merb is not longer 'Mongrel + Erb, a lightweight replacement for ActionPack' but a framework on it's own.
Correct doc in Merb::Controller: it uses SimpleSet for callable actions at the moment.
Document Merb::SimpleSet
Remove InvalidPathConversion exception: it is used nowhere in the core.
Update homepage in gem specification.
Clean up String extensions spec.
Remove it, hopefully no one seen it.
Add a note on drawbacks of usage of ObjectSpace.
Use a constant for reload spec instead of hardcoding time in 5 places or so.
Revert "Refactor ToHashParser#from_xml a bit to be able to use parser faster than REXML. It is planned to support Hpricot and fall back to REXML."
Use @ in publicity markers in RDoc.
Use a constant for sleep time in reloading specs
Refactor ToHashParser#from_xml a bit to be able to use parser faster than REXML. It is planned to support Hpricot and fall back to REXML.
Empty lines management, how cool is that?
Missing specs and improved documentation for Hash#to_mash.
Tiny improvement to Object extensions documentation. More empty line management.
One more example for Object#full_const_get; new spec group for Object#make_module.
Missing specs for Object#full_const_path.
Sweet empty lines management, what a wonderful way to apply yourself to.
Kick off Class extensions spec-ing.
Document inheritable attributes Class extension the Merb way, not ActiveSupport way with :nodoc:
Remove Emacs-generated cruft from specs directory.
Add missing specs for Class#reset_inheritable_attributes.
Split Kernel#use_test into smaller methos. Document them. Add specs for them beforehand.
Empty lines management, wonderful way to waste priceless time.
Kernel#already_registred_orm? is a sucky name. Make it Kernel#registred_orm?. Yay.
Split Kernel#use_orm guts into a bunch of smaller methods. Document those.
Add missing specs for Kernel#dependencies and Kernel#load_dependencies.
Pretty naive spec examples for Kernel#load_dependency.
Add missing specs for Kernel#dependency
Split 'misc' examples group in Kernel extensions spec: each method should have a separate group, ever.
Clean up empty lines in Kernel extensions.
Documentation for String#relative_path_from
Add missing specs for String extensions.
Remove helper that duplicated String#camel_case functionality, update the rest of spec suite.
Fix a nasty String#camel_case bug revealed but new shiny spec for String extensions.
Better formatting of spec suite run benchmark with good old sprintf.
Use RSPEC_OPTS environment variable to override default spec run options.
Report total spec suite run time.
Add spec command run options to run_specs. Add tasks for profiled spec run.
Unify &block documentation across Merb::Test::RequestHelper
Fix example in Merb::Test::RequestHelper#request documentation.
If deferred_actions are empty? we want a regex that will never match.
More polish for deferred_actions support. Thin, Ebb and EMongrel adapters
deferred?(env) now works with thin and ebb.
Fixed some its vs. it's issues. (Learning git :)
added delete action to docs
Added error message for when a content_type is requested but not provided
Syncronized code with rails branch. Delete call is required, because user cookie must be cleaned when TamperedWithCookie is raised.
Specs using a method that called must_support_streaming! weren't recognizing the custom NotImplemented error. This change fixes this issue by specifying the entire object chain for its usage within the method.
Fix number of examples in HTTP authentication spec.
first step to adding deferred?(env) support for ebb and thin
Use a dictionary instead of a Hash.
Changed the display method to handle options properly, so that passing :layout => :false works.  Added specs.
Added \- to String.unescape_regexp
added HasContent matcher
Standardises the call to set_cookie to use the set_cookie method in cookies.rb by default
Fix cookie sessions bug where you could not properly delete a cookie
should not delete the key
pass arguments to filters
Added thrown_content? predicate method for use in templates.
Added ability to specify :format in url() for named routes
modified specs to test a route restriction based on the type of request (POST, GET, UPDATE, DELETE)
Added 'use_orm :dm_core' option to use datamapper 0.9.0 with the dm-merb gem from dm-more
fixed example for dispatch_with_basic_authentication_to
Fixed typo
reverted mistakenly introduced change in abstract controller
added documentation
slight fix to basic auth spec
added support and specs for http basic authorization
added dispatch helper for http basic authentication
HTTP Basic authentication based on Rack
Fixed lurking infinite loop with not so common formats and ExceptionController
Refactored Merb::AbstractController.layout class method
_dispatch returns @body
really truly(?) fix stream_file ?
really make sure stream_file works
redo stream_file to (hopefully) work
Added Time#to_json to Core Extensions, making the default JSON formatted output for Time objects ISO 8601 compatible.
Added + unescape to String#unescape_regexp
Added String#unescape_regexp for usage in Router::Route#generate
BootLoader::LoadClasses now logs the actual exceptions
add mutex around compiled statement generation in the router so reloading doesn't step
Revert ExampleGroup changes as they were causing failing specs
Added render(template_path) feature to view specs.
RSpec ExampleGroups for Merb controllers, views, helpers, models and routes.
Prep 0.9.2
Resolves #209
* removed Merb.logger calls due to the fact the bootloader did not ran by now and it is not initialized.
use __send__ rather than send
Fixed exception setting route when route_index is nil
memoize the raw_post body after its called once
fix Request#raw_post to respect bodies with no rewind method
remove Kernel#requires it wasn't being used.
Move fixation to post initialize
typo
add specs for does_not_provide
Add specs for action-level only_provides
Make controller.route work
Update Ebb adapter to work with latest Ebb 0.1.0 [Ry Dahl]
fix PATH_INFO bug for fcgi
Rename url_with_host to absolute_url
Add url_with_host() and allow params to be pushed into FCGI adapter
More correct to_json of dictionary.
Modify dispatcher to be sane to XHRs; add to_json to dictionaries.
Added html_escape around the exception.message in the show details section.
Fixed bug not allowing have_tag to be called without a attribute hash, even when one is not desired
fix typo
refactor and clean up Merb::BootLoader::Dependencies [James Herdman]
ticket 202
This keeps erroring out, i hope it didnt commit multiple times:
Merb::BootLoader::LoadClasses should keep unique list of classes
Logger now works as expected, fixed ReloadClasses bootloader
Fixes cookie sessions when the session is blanked out.
catch_content should default to :for_layout
Added --sandbox (-S) option for IRB console
Fixes the dispatch_to request helper to conver the action name to a string.
Added Merb.testing? method
Fixed critical bug in LoadClasses BootLoader concerning reloading
Important changes to the BootLoader process
Added Kernel.load_dependencies method; better docs/comments.
Bugfixes concerning BootLoader and load order in general
fully qualify fcgi rack handler
Set mongrel as default adapter unless other alternative options are specified
Fix configuring session_id_key so that it works
url(:foo, 3) should notice 3 is a Fixnum, and use it instead of 3.id

0.9.3 “We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll” 2008-05-03¶ ↑

Added render(template_path) feature to view specs.
add mutex around compiled statement generation in the router so reloading doesn't step
BootLoader::LoadClasses now logs the actual exceptions
Added String#unescape_regexp for usage in Router::Route#generate
Added Time#to_json to Core Extensions so JSON formatted output for Time is ISO 8601 compatible
redo stream_file to (hopefully) work
_dispatch returns @body
Refactored Merb::AbstractController.layout class method
Fixed lurking infinite loop with not so common formats and ExceptionController
HTTP Basic authentication based on Rack
added dispatch helper for http basic authentication
added support and specs for http basic authorization
modified specs to test a route restriction based on the request method
Added ability to specify :format in url() for named routes
Added thrown_content? predicate method for use in templates.
pass arguments to filters
Fix cookie sessions bug where you could not properly delete a cookie
Standardises the call to set_cookie to use the set_cookie method in cookies.rb by default
added HasContent matcher
Added \- to String.unescape_regexp
Changed the display method to handle options properly, so that passing :layout => :false works.
Added error message for when a content_type is requested but not provided
added delete action to docs
deferred?(env) now works with thin and ebb.
If deferred_actions are empty? we want a regex that will never match.
Fix example in Merb::Test::RequestHelper#request documentation.
Unify &block documentation across Merb::Test::RequestHelper
Add spec command run options to run_specs. Add tasks for profiled spec run.
Report total spec suite run time.
Use RSPEC_OPTS environment variable to override default spec run options.
Better formatting of spec suite run benchmark with good old sprintf.
Fix a nasty String#camel_case bug revealed but new shiny spec for String extensions.
Remove helper that duplicated String#camel_case functionality, update the rest of spec suite.
Split 'misc' examples group in Kernel extensions spec: each method should have a separate group
Split Kernel#use_orm guts into a bunch of smaller methods. Document those.
Kernel#already_registred_orm? is a sucky name. Make it Kernel#registred_orm?. Yay.
Split Kernel#use_test into smaller methos. Document them. Add specs for them beforehand.
Use a constant for sleep time in reloading specs
Use @ in publicity markers in RDoc.
Remove InvalidPathConversion exception: it is used nowhere in the core.
A bit clearer --init-file option description.
Be clear about what is the default init file Merb uses in RDoc.
hopefully the last fix for session fixation, woot woot
Provide hook for param filtering
Give useful information when no template is found for a partial
Adds a question method to determine environment.  eg Merb.env?(:production)
Make #display method pass all 'unknown' options to serialization method.
Add Object#in? for checking array inclusion
Update Kernel#__profile__ documentation.
Adding support for pidfile setting with cluster nodes setting.
Updating pidfile cluster fix to handle any extension.
Fix for kill so that cli options are read and handled before kill is actually called.
Refactored Exception status handling/inheritance (it actually works now!)
Replaced remaining ::STATUS constant references to .status method calls
Append the content_type to the given :template option for render()
Fix bug in --very-flat (allow direct inheritance from Merb::Controller)
Show merb usage if first argument is not a switch
Adding missing info about ebb adapter.
completed spec to Merb::Logger#new
Added Provide matcher class, so you can do "controller.should provide( :xml )" in your specs.
Added support for multiple keys to designate a resource. For use with Datamapper composite keys
Ensure that Merb::Logger doesn't try to close terminal streams.
Remove redundant unescape for cookie string
Added handling of INT signal for Merb server in foreground mode
params array serialization
Fixing pidfiles glob on cluster and pidfile argument
test request helpers support namespaced routes
Testing Merb::Test::RequestHelper#request method to properly handle namespaced routes
Provide opts for alternate rackup config path.
Add new -R/--rackup option to the full(-ish) list of options.
Make change_priveledge actually work
Allow http status to be a symbol - refactored String snake_case method
removing __app_file_trace__  since it doesn't work.

0.9.2 “appropriate response to reality” 2008-03-24¶ ↑

removed Merb.logger calls due to the fact the bootloader did not ran by now and it is not initialized.
use __send__ rather than send
Fixed exception setting route when route_index is nil
memoize the raw_post body after it's called once
fix Request#raw_post to respect bodies with no rewind method
remove Kernel#requires it wasn't being used.
Move fixation to post initialize
add specs for does_not_provide
Add specs for action-level only_provides
Make controller.route work
Update Ebb adapter to work with latest Ebb 0.1.0 [Ry Dahl]
fix PATH_INFO bug for fcgi
Rename url_with_host to absolute_url
Add url_with_host() and allow params to be pushed into FCGI adapter
More correct to_json of dictionary.
Modify dispatcher to be sane to XHRs; add to_json to dictionaries.
Added html_escape around the exception.message in the show details section.
Fixed bug not allowing have_tag to be called without a attribute hash, even when one is not desired
refactor and clean up Merb::BootLoader::Dependencies [James Herdman]
Merb::BootLoader::LoadClasses should keep unique list of classes
Logger now works as expected, fixed ReloadClasses bootloader
Fixes cookie sessions when the session is blanked out.
catch_content should default to :for_layout
Added --sandbox (-S) option for IRB console
Added Merb.testing? method
Fixes the dispatch_to request helper to conver the action name to a string.
Added Merb.testing? method
Fixed critical bug in LoadClasses BootLoader concerning reloading
Important changes to the BootLoader process
Added Kernel.load_dependencies method; better docs/comments.
Bugfixes concerning BootLoader and load order in general
fully qualify fcgi rack handler
Set mongrel as default adapter unless other alternative options are specified
Fix configuring session_id_key so that it works
url(:foo, 3) should notice 3 is a Fixnum, and use it instead of 3.id
make load order of core_ext explicit
Modifies before/after in BootLoader to actually work.
ix not-available vs. not-provided bug in content negotiation
Fixed display bug which caused default error exception pages to improperly display drop-down twirly if the path name exceeded the line length.
remove symbolize_keys! as we don't use it anywhere. by now..
Rework bootloader to make more sense for flat apps (specifically framework load)
More fixes to the flat autoloader
remove custom_* resource route, use :member or :collection instead
fix logger specs
Fixes bug with framework not being defined.
make sure logger bang! methods do not flush unless the proper log level is used.
Updates the request spec to account for the new from_xml behaviour
Adds specs and changes for compatibility with ActiveSupport.  There is one caveat.  It will not change YAML generated Hash keys to strings if they are defined as symbols as is currently the behaviour of ActiveSupport.
update the logger. no longer accept an optional block to call.
remove some vestigal config defaults
Add rack adapter for Ebb, damn it's fast!
coerce the port to an integer when starting mongrel (jruby compat)
remove specs for dependency as they were broittle and not testing the right thing.
Fixes #155 (_perform_content_negotiation doesn't find   * if it comes last in the accept header order, and nothing else matches)
Changes use_test to wrap only the call to dependencies in the check for Merb.environment == "test"

0.9.1 “Some are half-wild, and some are just outlaws.” 2008-02-29¶ ↑

Put spec tasks into namespaces and method for specifying pnly a certain model/controller/view to run against
As a last resort, look for */* in the formats before throwing NotAcceptable (TODO: Clean this up)
Fix perform_content_negotiation to correctly handle :format in params. Fix render_* to correctly return the correct content_type.
remove hooks.rb, they were premature and only used in one place
fix evented mongrel to not go crazy
Calling /foo.pdf should throw a 406 if :pdf is not a registered mime.
touch up dispatcher a bit, remove some un-needed code from the hot path
fix dispatcher to not parse the params twice, still supports request_params
fix Exception in exception.html.erb
moved rspec rake tasks into core.  Added Merb.rakefiles, which is now used by Merb::Plugins.rakefiles.  Changed Kernel#use_test to only load dependency arguments when Merb.env is nil or test.
do not load test framework unless Merb.env == 'test'
Use new Object.make_module to create the module instead of old hackish solution.
Don't clear our mimes previously defined.
Fixed clean task deleting everything in the lib folder
Kernel#dependency requires gems/files in a before_app_loads block.
Move dependency loading after framework and look for framework.rb
Creates helper stub modules for controllers.
fix blank path error.
Cooler errors
add named routes to error page
updates to nested resources
get autotest working for merb-core
Symbolize params in route generation, to accomodate Mashes
Fixes :status not working on strings.
update thin adapter to newest way of silencing the log
:format => :html possible in partials
print request URI when "No routes match the request" error thrown
fix merb -i
Make Merb.start default to the runner adapter
It's now possible to send binary data using the send_data method
and to specify the disposition, filename and type of the data being sent.
Fix memcached session writes
allow the setting of a custom session key
Changed TemplateNotFound to stop so much confusion about incorrect
template locations because it doesn't include .*
fix dropping of pid files in cluster and daemon mode
Nested partials don't blow away locals.
Better loading of classes
Support concat and test capture/concat
Added single key assignment to Merb.config
Move url method from ControllerMixin to AbstractController for use in
Mailers and Parts etc.
Merb.config now returns Merb::Config instead of the current
configuration hash.
Added Merb.reload which reloads the framework classes.
Adding Merb.env shorthand for Merb.environment
Added a quaint Merb Configurator
With bootloader order changes, environment was not getting loaded
Fix cookie parsing from localhost, add spec
Add support for multiple template roots
Allow override of router.rb file in config
Modify behavior of 'namespace' in the router
Fix content negotiation for IE and its stupid accept header.
Only serve static files when the HTTP method is GET or HEAD. Other
requests should still be handled by Merb.
Add path_prefix support.
Changes dispatch_to spec helper to yield the controller
redo of load_dependency, after_app_loads callback, and Kernel changes
Added Merb.logger.auto_flush
Fix nested resource routing
Do not drop PID file is not running as daemon or cluster
Fixed problem with resources inside a namespace block
Added support for dynamic layouts.
adding conditional behaviour to filters :if and :unless
Use the escape_xml from Erubis rather than rolling our own
Add a merb.reload! command to the merb -i console.
Get rid of StringScanner dependency.
Fix render_then_call to support new streaming tech.
Fix filter specs to respect append order of filters.
check for empty string before calling to_sym on the format parameter
fake requests are incorrectly loading controller classes with namespaces
Fix the RubyGems monkeypatch by testing for Merb.root instead of looking in $"
fix core spec dependency on merb_rspec
Replace calls to puts with Merb.logger
Fix problem with static files, use Proc === body
Added file and line information for evals in router.rb.

0.9.0 “All you need, none you don't” 2008-02-13¶ ↑

Developer Only Release
Split merb into merb-core and merb-more

0.5.3 “Inexperienced With Girls” 2008-01-28¶ ↑

Improved handling of models/controllers with dependencies
Improved cluster starting/stopping
Frozen script/merb should really work now
Merb::Cookies is used for cookie jar purposes
test_helper no longer assumes rspec mocking framework
asset bundler handles strings and symbols
render() now has an option for explicitly rendering an object
Fixed annoying bug in exception rendering for 500 internal_server_error
testing request helper accepts an option hash

0.5.2 “Great White North” 2008-01-14¶ ↑

Make Merb.load_paths accessible for modification
Fix issues with running frozen apps

0.5.1 “Electic Boogaloo” 2008-01-10¶ ↑

Fix 0.5.0

0.5.0 “Thanks Zed” 2008-01-09¶ ↑

Added asset bundling for Javascript and stylesheet files

0.4.2 “Surf's up.” 2007-12-14¶ ↑

Super-huge speed boost for rendering Erubis templates with partials
Windows-specific fixes to Merb's Rakefile
Blocking write is called when in development, test, Windows and jRuby environments and platforms.
merb_helpers: form field labels are now explicit, huge documentation update, added select, fieldset, more helpers
Fixed merb.show_routes within merb -i
Fixed image_tag, css_include_tag, and js_include_tag to work with path_prefix
Adds spec helper methods with_route and dispatch_to
fix rakefile cfor cygwin
add count with collection to partial()
Form control mixin is deprecated Use merb_helpers plugin.
add redirect matcher to rspec test helpers
allow r.resource(:foo, :myparam => 42) resource routes pass on params to underlying match() call
spit out error and help message if you call merb with no args
get rid of dependency on mongrel for escape and unescape
make sure not to use write_nonblock when logging to STDOUT
Fixed image_tag, css_include_tag, and js_include_tag to work with path_prefix
fix set_status to actually work, add docs,
config/merb.yml is now correctly loaded from Rake and test environment - using Merb::Server.load_config
added config option to disable loading of the JSON gem - still enabled by default 
don't raise if names local on a partial is nil
Use svn export instead of checkout upon merb:freeze_from_svn
Extracted url and other general methods out of ControllerMixin into GeneralControllerMixin
fix caching of @_buffer in render, form_for
Seperates spec helpers into the Merb::Test namespace to prevent spec methods leaking into specs
Changes the spec url helper method to the same used in the controller
Made Request#parse_multipart return an empty hash instead of nil if the request is not multipart
Changes throw_content so that it can be called without a block
Added :namespace option to routes.

0.4.1 “Faster Partials or Partially Faster?” 2007-11-12¶ ↑

Fixed pluralization issues with generators
Resource generators are much improved
url() helper now supports nested resources
url(:post, @post) observers @post.new_record? and adjusts accordingly
Fixed bug with empty Accept headers
Added config/boot.rb to load framework from gems or framework/ dir
New partial() is much faster (and less buggy)
render :partial no longer supported
Add a buffered logger
Fixes bug with parameterized actions on some platforms
partial can now be called on collections:
 partial("widget", :with => @new_widgets, :as => "widget")
SMTP mailer now supports non-AUTH setups
set_status() can take symbolic codes like :not_found
JRuby compat fixes
Speed boost, esp. with rendering
Fix spec_helper running against development database
Fix major bug with sessions not working

0.4.0 “This ain't yo mommas merb” 2007-11-06¶ ↑

0.3.7 “Out of the basement” 2007-08-05¶ ↑

0.3.4 “Route fixer” 2007-05-31¶ ↑

0.3.3 “Hey buddy can you spare a route generator?” 2007-05-31¶ ↑

0.3.1 “The Fixed and the Furious” 2007-04-30¶ ↑

0.3.0 “The Fast and the Furious” 2007-04-28¶ ↑

0.2.0 “Accept your fate and respond_to change” 2007-03-18¶ ↑

0.1.0 “Generation Herb” 2007-01-18¶ ↑

0.0.9 “merb is the new black” 2007-01-14¶ ↑

0.0.8 “Merbivore” 2006-12-17¶ ↑

0.0.7 “Lean and mean merbing machine” 2006-11-29¶ ↑

0.0.6 “The Black Belt Release” 2006-11-09¶ ↑

0.0.5 “The getting real release” 2006-11-01¶ ↑

0.0.4 “The toddler phase” 2006-10-26¶ ↑

0.0.3 “the switchblade suicide release” 2006-10-17¶ ↑

0.0.2 “the quicksliver release” 2006-10-16¶ ↑

0.0.1 “The pocket rocket release” 2006-10-15¶ ↑