nanoc news

nanoc 3.0.2 released

2009-11-06T23:00:00Z

nanoc 3.0.2 has been released. This release fixes a bug related to pattern matching in compilation and routing rules: in nanoc 3.0.1, the pattern /foo/*/ would erroneously match /foo/ as well–not in 3.0.2 anymore. There are some other tiny enhancements too; check the release notes page for details.

Important! nanoc’s gems are now hosted on Gemcutter, since this is becoming the default host for Ruby gems. If you don’t have Gemcutter yet, install using gem install gemcutter followed by gem tumble (to add Gemcutter to the list of gem sources).

When you have Gemcutter, updating nanoc3 is done the usual way, like this:

> sudo gem update nanoc3

If you have any issues with this nanoc release, do let me know on the mailinglist or on the IRC channel. Enjoy!

nanoc 3.0.1 released

2009-10-04T22:00:00Z

nanoc 3.0.1 has been released. This minor 3.0.1 release improves error reporting and fixes a couple of tiny bugs. For details, see the release notes page.

You can update your copy of nanoc by issuing the “gem update” command, like this:

> sudo gem update nanoc3

If you have any issues with this nanoc release, do let me know on the mailinglist or on the IRC channel. Enjoy!

nanoc 3.0.0 released

2009-08-13T22:00:00Z

nanoc 3.0 has landed. This release brings many improvements which will be revealed in just a bit, but first, here’s how to install it:

sudo gem install nanoc3

nanoc 3.0 is incompatible with previous versions of nanoc which means that you cannot use nanoc 3.0 with existing nanoc 2.x sites. Check out the migrating from nanoc 2.2 to nanoc 3.0 guide for details on how to upgrade our existing sites.

Fortunately, nanoc 3.0 and 2.2 can coexist; the commandline tool for nanoc 3.0 is named nanoc3 (not nanoc) and the namespace is Nanoc3, not Nanoc. You can easily use nanoc 2.2 and nanoc 3.0 side by side.

So, on to what’s new in nanoc 3.0. There are too many changes to mention them all, but here’s a tiny list of useful new features that I like most:

Multiple data sources so you can load data from multiple locations–for example, Twitter, Delicious and Last.fm.
Filter arguments so you can pass extra arguments when executing a filter. For example, you can now pass Haml options when executing filters, like this: filter :haml, :format => :html5.
A more compact filesystem-based data source called filesystem_combined that doesn’t require tons of directories in the content and layout directories. Cleaner and less verbose.
An all-new dependency tracking system that ensures that all modified items and their dependent items are recompiled when the site is compiled. This speeds up site compilation by preventing non-modified pages from being recompiled.
A rules file which allows processing instructions (filtering pages, laying out pages) to be specified in a much more DRY way. In addition, the rules file is much more powerful than specifying processing instructions using item/layout attributes.

For more information, check out the migration guide, as well as the updated tutorial and manual. There is also the source code documentation for 3.0.0 in case you want to take a peek at the internals.

As you can see, a lot has changed in nanoc 3.0. If you experience any problems with this nanoc 3.0, let me know on the nanoc mailinglist or on the nanoc IRC channel.

Enjoy!

nanoc 2.2.2 released

2009-05-17T22:00:00Z

nanoc 2.2.2 is out. This maintenance release fixes two bugs in nanoc 2.2.1.

The first fixed bug would cause nanoc to complain about the open file limit being reached when using a site with a large amount of assets (hundreds).

The second fixed bug would cause nanoc to slow down to a crawl and use massive amounts of memory when an exception occurred.

Also, if you're still using the relativize_paths filter instead of the newer relativize_paths_in_html, you'll have to switch. relativize_paths is no longer available in 2.2.2

As always, you can update your copy of nanoc by issuing the "gem update" command, like this:

> sudo gem update nanoc

If you have any issues with this nanoc release, do let me know on the mailinglist or on the IRC channel. Enjoy!

nanoc 2.2.1 released

2009-04-07T22:00:00Z

nanoc 2.2.1 is out. This release fixes a few bugs introduced in nanoc 2.2.

First of all, the relativize_path_to helper function (part of the LinkTo helper) now works. A bug in the test cases unfortunately made all tests pass.

The relativize_paths filter has been split into two separate filters: relativize_paths_in_html, which relativizes paths in HTML code, and relativize_paths_in_css, which does the same for CSS.

As always, you can update your copy of nanoc by issuing the "gem update" command, like this:

> sudo gem update nanoc

If you have any issues with this nanoc release, do let me know on the mailinglist or on the IRC channel. Enjoy!