Retrograde: Part One

Working Area:

I designed it to have some nifty UI stuff like an expandable tree view of pages, drag-n-drop reordering of pages, page previews using AJAX. You know, the standard web 2.0ish stuff.

• How to handle Drag-n-drop
  • Look further up the track
  • Make the link smart, point to the HTML version of the page and have the onclick handler return false
• How to handle expandable trees when there’s no AJAX
  • Show all the entries, don’t show the ‘twisties’
• How to handle AJAX page previews
  • Look for features you can disable
  • Remove button if JS isn’t available

Testing

Does your application work if JavaScript is disabled? It should.

Pardon The Dust

I’ve updated the website, moving away from WordPress (for various reasons). So there may be a few broken links floating about.

The RSS feeds may be a bit fragile too… I updated the .htaccess file to redirect the feeds correctly—I hope. If you’re having a problem with the feeds, broken links, or something else regarding the site, please let me know.

Just Plain Wrong

Comatose v0.6

Comatose 0.6 is out! Here’s a quick summary of the new stuff:

• ComatoseController has been split into ComatoseController and ComatoseAdminController
• Both controllers extend your ApplicationController
• The views, stylesheets, and javascripts have been updated and renamed to reflect the controller change
• Configuration via Comatose::Options class
• Liquid is the default text processor
• Support for named routes
• A Getting Started Guide
• Pages now have a created_on field
• Bug-fixes

For more, see the CHANGELOG.

Turns out I spoke too soon in my earlier post, there is a schema change. So if you're upgrading you'll need to run:

$ ./script/generate comatose_migration --upgrade --from=0.5

If you have questions/problems/feedback, drop by the Comatose project site and post in the forum or report a bug.

Comatose Development Site

Rubyforge has been kind enough to create a project site for Comatose. I’ve enabled the following project tools for it:

• Website (I’ll put the Getting Started guide out there soon)
• Forums
• Bug/Patch/Feature Tracking
• Mailing List

Rubyforge also provides a project-specific wiki. I haven’t enabled it, at this point — If you think it’d be useful, lemme know and I can.

So from here on, if you have problems with Comatose you can add a bug ticket. Or better yet, fix it and submit a patch. If you need help with something, feel free to post on the mailing list or the help forum.

If you’ve used Comatose, I’d like to encourage you to drop by the open-discussion forum and leave a note. If you’ve done anything special with it, I’d love to hear it!