Ronin 0.8 released

[Gus Prevas]

Version 0.8 of the Ronin web framework for Gosu has been released and is available for download at

http://code.google.com/p/ronin/

Please note that this is a pre-1.0 release.  As such, APIs and functionality are subject to change.

Gosu version 0.8 is required for this version of Ronin.  If you're using an older version of Gosu, make sure to update it before using Ronin.

A full tutorial and introduction to both Ronin and Gosu is now available:

http://code.google.com/p/ronin/wiki/Tutorial

WHAT'S NEW IN 0.8

- A single download which contains Ronin, RoninDB, and all required dependencies.

- Setting up a new Ronin/RoninDB app is much easier now, thanks to the Roninit utility.

- The Aardvark build system (http://vark.github.com) can be used to easily perform common tasks like running a development server, verifying application code, and managing your development database.

- URL generation methods which worked with blocks in 0.7 have been updated to take advantage of feature literals in Gosu 0.8.  (The old methods have been deprecated and will be removed for the 1.0 release.)

- Methods for type-safe generation of HTML input names.

- More robust logging and tracing/profiling facilities.

- A caching system.

- Improved configuration API.

- Support for JSON-based requests.

- Hooks for common functionality before and after all methods in a controller class.

- Various bug fixes and API improvements.

WHAT'S COMING NEXT

Potential features for upcoming versions:

- Built-in support for cross-site request forgery (XSRF) protection

- Integration with Apache Shiro for user authentication

- Integration with Apache Ivy for dependency management

- Additional JSON support

If there are other features you'd like to see, don't be shy!  Please file them in our issue tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/ronin/issues/list