Nov 30 2012

I’m happy to announce the release of Draper 1.0.0.beta1 today. If you use Draper, I’d appreciate you checking out the beta release in your app, kicking the tires, and letting me know what’s up.

You can get it by installing it from Rubygems:

$ gem install draper --pre

or by putting it in your Gemfile:

gem "draper", "1.0.0.beta1"

Notable changes include:

• Renaming Draper::Base to Draper::Decorator. This is the most significant change you’ll need to upgrade your application. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/025742cb3b295d259cf0ecf3669c24817d6f2df1
• Added an internal Rails application for integration tests. This won’t affect your application, but we’re now running a set of Cucumber tests inside of a Rails app in both development and production mode to help ensure that we don’t make changes that break Draper. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/90a4859085cab158658d23d77cd3108b6037e36f
• Add #decorated? method. This gives us a free RSpec matcher, is_decorated?. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/834a6fd1f24b5646c333a04a99fe9846a58965d6
• #decorates is no longer needed inside your models, and should be removed. Decorators automatically infer the class they decorate. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/e1214d97b62f2cab45227cc650029734160dcdfe
• Decorators do not automatically come with ‘finders’ by default. If you’d like to use SomeDecorator.find(1), for example, simply add #has_finders to the decorator to include them. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/42b6f78fda4f51845dab4d35da68880f1989d178
• To refer to the object being decorated, #source is now the preferred method. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/1e84fcb4a0eab0d12f5feda6886ce1caa239cb16
• ActiveModel::Serialization is included in Decorators if you’ve requred ActiveModel::Serializers, so that decorators can be serialized. https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/c4b352799067506849abcbf14963ea36abda301c
• Properly support Test::Unit https://github.com/drapergem/draper/commit/087e134ed0885ec11325ffabe8ab2bebef77a33a

And many small bug fixes and refactorings.

Before the actual release of 1.0.0, I want to improve documentation and handle a few other things, but we currently have no confirmed and one possible bug in Draper as it stands, so your feedback as I clean up these last few things would be excellent. Please file issues on the tracker if you find anything.

Thank you! <3 <3 <3