RELEASE HISTORY

2.1.1 / 2013-08-21

This minor release clarifies the licensing. The entire library is now distributed under the BSD-2-Clause license, also known as the FreeBSD license. In addition this release provides a bug fix for flattening arrays that contain an OpenCascade object.

Changes:

  • Clarify licensing.
  • Fix #flatten on Arrays that contain an OpenCascade.

2.1.0 / 2012-11-24 (Golden Retriever)

The major change of the 2.1 release is to switch over to Hash#fetch as the fundamental CRUD read method in-place of the previous #read core extension (an alias of #[]). This is a pretty fundamental change which required modification of a number of classes. So please do extra-diligence and file an issue if you experience any problems.

In addition, the Hash#read core extension has been renamed to Hash#retrieve to avoid any possible confusion with IO objects. This release also fixes a couple of issues with 1.8 compatibility and makes a few other small enhancements.

Changes:

  • Rename Hash#read to Hash#retrieve.
  • Deprecate Dictionary.alpha in favor of Dictionary.alphabetic.
  • Add support for block argument in Dictionary#order_by_key and #order_by_value.
  • Fix OpenHash issues with Ruby 1.8.x compatibility.
  • OpenHash methods are opened up via protected instead of private.
  • Change OpenCascade to auto-create the subclass when inherited.

2.0.1 / 2012-07-06

This minor release fixes an issue with OpenCascade (#13). The key_proc procedure wasn't being passed along to sub-cascades.

Changes:

  • OpenCascade passes along key_proc to children.

2.0.0 / 2012-05-11 (Crud Space)

This is a big release for Hashery which both culls some of it's less fitting classes and modules while greatly improving the rest. The first and most immediate change is use of a proper namespace. All classes and modules are now appropriately kept in the Hashery namespace. To get the old behavior you can include Hashery as the toplevel. For the other changes and improvements dive into the API documentation.

Changes:

  • Use proper Hashery namespace.
  • Add CRUDHash, which also serves a good base class.
  • Improved OpenHash to be nearly 100% open.
  • Deprecate BasicStruct, as it would be better to improve OpenStruct.
  • Deprecate BasicCascade, though it never really came to be.
  • Deprecate BasicObject emulator, as it is no longer needed.
  • Deprecate Memoizer, not sure how that got in here anyway.
  • Deprecate Ostructable, which can be paired up with better OpenStruct.
  • Removed open_object.rb, which has long been deprecated.

1.5.1 / 2012-05-09

This release adds transformative #each method to OpenCascade, to ensure #each returns an OpenCascade. Also, BasicCascade has been added that is like OpenCascade by fully open by use of BasicObject as a base class.

Changes:

  • Fix OpenCascade#each (porecreat).
  • Introduce BasicCascade class.
  • Renamed Ini class to IniHash class.

1.5.0 / 2011-11-10 (Devil's Core)

In this release, CoreExt module has been added to encapsulate methods that extend Ruby's core Hash class (there are only a few). Presently these are only loaded when using require 'hashery'. If you are cherry-picking from Hashery but still want the core extensions, you need to use require 'hasery/core_ext' first. In addition, BasicStruct class now has a #key method. And finally this release switches licensing to BSD 2-Clause.

Changes:

  • Use CoreExt mixin for core Hash extensions.
  • Add BasicStruct#key method (b/c #index is deprecated in Ruby 1.9).
  • Deprecate SparseArray class.
  • Switch license to BSD-2-Clause license.

1.4.0 / 2011-01-19 (Back To Basics)

This release includes a copy of Ruby Facets' BasicObject class, which fixes the loading bug of the previous version. This release also renames OpenObject to BasicStruct, which is a much better description of what the class actually provides.

Changes:

  • Rename OpenObject to BasicStruct.
  • Fix basicobject.rb loading issue.

1.3.0 / 2010-10-01 (Private Property)

This release fixes a minor bug in CastingHash and adds a new PropertyHash class.

Changes:

  • 1 New Library

    • Added PropertyHash

  • 1 Bug Fix

    • Fixed CastingHash#new where #to_proc is called against NilClass

1.2.0 / 2010-06-04 (Fuzzy Wuzzy)

This release makes two significant changes to the Hashery. First, we have a new shiny library called FuzzyHash by Joshua Hull. It's a cool idea that allows hash keys to be regular expressions. Secondly, OpenCascade is now a subclass of OpenHash rather than OpenObject (to go along with the changes of the last release), and it now support cascading within Arrays.

Changes:

  • 1 New Library

    • FuzzyHash by Joshua Hull

  • 1 Major Enhancement

    • OpenCascade subclasses OpenHash and handles Array cascading.

1.1.0 / 2010-04-28 (Ugly Ducklings)

A follow-up release of Hashery that adds two new libraries: Association and SparseArray. Both of these may seem like odd entries, but they each belong in a unique way. An Association is akin to a single entry Hash --it represents a pairing. While a SpareArray, though compatible with the Array class, is completely under-pinned by a Hash in order to make it efficient when no entries are given for a set of indexes, hence "sparse".

Changes:

  • 2 New Libraries

    • Added association.rb
    • Added sparsearray.rb

1.0.0 / 2010-04-21 (Hatching Hashery)

This is the first release of the Facets Hashery. Most of included classes come directly from Ruby Facets, so they have been around a while and are in good working condition.

Some improvements are planned for the next release. In particular the OrderHash and Dictionary, which presently have essentially the same coding, will diverge to target slightly different use cases.

Changes:

  • Happy Birthday!