maniacal rage

I've been pouring most of my free time into SimpleLog 1.1, which is nearly ready for release. Remember all that talk about it being a pain to upgrade from 1.0? Yeah, well, you can forget that. I've written a few rake tasks that take care of all the hard work for you.

In fact, you won't really have to change anything when upgrading (unless you've made modifications to files other than the views, like adding features to controllers or such).

The process will be as such:

1. Place a rake task called simplelog_themer into your current SimpleLog install and run it. This will create a theme from your currently customized views, change configuration references to the new preference methods, and even convert image paths to relative in your CSS and JavaScript.

2. Copy that theme, config/site.rb and config/database.yml from your current install to the new SimpleLog version directory.

3. Replace your current install with the new version entirely.

4. Run rake simplelog_upgrade

Then you've got a fully-upgraded install of SimpleLog 1.1, and you can go and customize your preferences (now in the admin section, and includes many new prefs), including selecting your theme (which will be aptly titled OnePointOh). You can also choose from the two built-in themes (a new default theme has been added in 1.1).

I'm hoping to release version 1.1 as early as next week, as soon as we finish testing (I'm currently making sure the app works in postgres and sqlite). It's been a lot of work, but the app has really been shaping up the last few weeks and I'm excited to release it.