Remarkable 4.0.0.alpha2

Remarkable 4.0.0.alpha2 now released. This release reorganizes and simplifies loading of the component. Here's how you install it:

sudo gem install remarkable_activerecord --pre

Add Remarkable to your Gemfile:

group :test do
   gem 'rspec', '>= 2.0.0.alpha7'
   gem 'rspec-rails', '>= 2.0.0.alpha7'
   gem 'remarkable', '>=4.0.0.alpha2'
   gem 'remarkable_activemodel', '>=4.0.0.alpha2'
   gem 'remarkable_activerecord', '>=4.0.0.alpha2'
end

In spec/spec_helper.rb add:

require 'rspec/rails'
require 'remarkable/active_record'

If you just want Remarkable core, use:

require 'remarkable/core'

If you just want Remarkable::ActiveModel, use:

require 'remarkable/active_model'

All locales inside the gem are now automatically loaded. So if anyone wants to provide a translation for say, Traditional Chinese, feel free to fork and send a pull request.

This release also fixes the bug in alpha1 where the English localization was not properly loading for remarkable/active_model.

Changes for Macro Developers

Although I wrote about improving macro registration, I googled around some more and found "Gem Packaging: Best Practices". The system I was proposing would overlap the functionality of Rubygems and Bundler (in so far as dependency checking). It would have been over-architected.

Requiring remarkable/active_record should automatically require remarkable/active_model, which should in turn require remarkable. The version dependencies themselves are described in the gemspec file. Further, users should just be able to require a single file without having to mess with Remarkable.include_matchers! to get things done.

By moving the files from remarkable/lib/remarkable to remarkable/lib/remarkable/core, it opens it up developers to add to the remarkable namespace. For example, we can have a require 'remarkable/foreigner' by making a lib/remarkable/foreigner.rb inside the gem and dropping the rest of the files into lib/remarkable/foreigner/.

Instead of using lines such as

# Load Remarkable ActiveModel files
dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
require File.join(dir, 'remarkable_activemodel', 'base')

[ src ]

we just have

# Load Remarkable
require 'remarkable/core'
require 'remarkable/active_model/base'

[ src ]

But how do we avoid loading the system gems when we want to run tests? We throw custom load paths into $LOAD_PATH or its alias, $:

# In spec/spec_helpers.rb
$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib')

To help load these paths, I've added a path_helpers.rb that you can take a look at.

For details, see remarkable_activemodel and remarkable_activerecord for examples on how the loading is done.