master branch is now on rails 3.1. using girl_friday instead of delayed job for background processing

[Tom Brown]

i'm happy to anounce that oscurrency is now running rails 3.1 on the master branch.  checkins should now go into master instead of rails31 branch.

thanks to @rewritten, there is no more costs on heroku associated with running delayed job because of the switch to girl_friday:

https://github.com/mperham/girl_friday

also, a new cool feature is that you can now compose a private message from your inbox and simply start typing the recipient's name and it will do a lookup.  thanks to @jgaldrich for this and other cool new features in the admin interface.

some of us working on the rails31 branch had a skype chat last week where started trying to figure how to improve the codebase:

https://github.com/oscurrency/oscurrency/wiki/08-23-2012-rails31-branch-chat

this included thinking about user interface frameworks and removing non-essential code.  already removed is walls and blog and some event code that was never enabled.  there seems to be interest in having these chats from time to time although the next one is not scheduled yet.  perhaps the wiki is the right place to keep track of chats...still working out the best tool for doing this, etc.

my next task is to update installation documentation to account for all the recent changes with the heroku production environment configuration.

there are a number of new issues including some on doing more with supporting participation of organizations on oscurrency.  in particular, there has been an org flag in the Person model that can be set in admin interface.  the current idea is to add some fields in the Person model that will be used if the org is set to true for that "person."

have a good weekend!

cheers,
tom