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Thanks to Mack user, Diogo Almeida, there’s a great write up on the wiki on how to configure Apache using mod_rails to host a Mack app.  Thanks Diogo.

http://www.mackwiki.com/using_passenger_phusion_to_host_a_mack_application

Peter Cooper just posted a very nice article about Mack, which features an interview with me, Mark Bates, over on Ruby Inside. Please check it out:

http://www.rubyinside.com/mack-distributed-ruby-web-application-framework-releases-070-1107.html 

On Monday, August 25th, Mack 0.7.0 will be released. This is an extremely important release for Mack. Why is that you ask? Good question. Well, this is release that finally brings the much talked about distributed feature set to Mack. Distributed routes have been around for quite some time, but distributed views/layouts and distributed objects (models) have been missing. Well, in less than a week, you’ll have them!

Now I know that you’re just as excited about what’s coming as I am, that’s why I’ve prepared the first ever Mack screencast to demostrate these features. The screencast is a little rough around the edges, but it gets the ideas across. 

As always I’ll post more about the 0.7.0 as the release date nears. In the meantime enjoy the screencast:

The Mack Distributed Demo Screencast

Here’s the source code.

http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/7/23/rails-envy-podcast-episode-039-07-23-2008

If you’re not familiar with the podcast, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a very informative, and highly entertaining podcast about all things Ruby.

Good work guys, keep it up!

Well folks, as you know, things have been a bit quiet on the Mack front these days, but it’s all been for a very good reason. We’ve been prepping the next release, 0.6.0. This release is expected to hit the streets sometime the beginning of next week. There’s a lot of really great stuff in the release, DataMapper 0.9.2 support (finally!), RSpec testing support, a mack-more project to house a bunch of cool Mack related gems, Exception handling in Routing, and more… A full list will be available when the release happens.

In addition to the great new features, a lot of bugs have been worked out, and more of the API has solidified further. Because of some of these changes I’ve posted an upgrade guide from 0.5.x to 0.6.0. This guide can be found on the wiki. 

This guide is meant to make upgrading as quickly and as a painless possible. There are a couple of big changes, but they should be fairly simple to make.

I’m very happy with this release, it’s been long toiled over, and it shows. It’s very stable, fast, and fun. I think everyone is really going to like it. 

As more info about the release becomes available, I’ll keep everyone posted.