Since the initial release we’ve been getting great ideas and suggestions from the developers using and implementing tog. In an effort to give a stronger voice to this process of feedback we’ve created an account on the beautiful service of uservoice.

You can see the ‘feedback’ tab on the right side of this very page. Just click on it and you can see the top rated ideas submitted and their status. If you want to add your own suggestions just go to the tog feedback forum and submit them. Same process if you want to report a bug although our lighthouse bugtracker should be a better fit for error reporting.

We aim to simplify the process to submit ideas and suggestions to the tog platform with this process… Let us know what you think!

Tog 0.4 “Thebe” is finally out. We’ve added a bunch of fixes, patches and improvements. Obviously there are a new shiny features too:

• OAuth beta support. A basic provider/consumer oauth model has been added to tog. Through this feature you should be able to integrate any tog based app with an increasing number of communities and sites like Google, FireEagle or SmugMug.

• Spam blocking. As we’ve detailed before tog powered sites will be now protected against spam in their comments. Probably we’ll extract and expand this blocking system to any model on future releases.

• Site-wide search. Any model can be now included in the sitewide search available with tog. Just add your model as a search source to tog and provide a partial to render the matching instances of this model in the results page. You can check the details here and here.

• FileColumn to Paperclip migration. We’ve replaced one of the oldest part of the platform and will depends now on the great paperclip plugin from the nice guys of thoughtbot. We’ve added the needed migrations to make the transition easier. As always a backup of your site before the update will be a great idea.

How to install

You can install or upgrade to tog 0.4 through RubyGems:

gem install tog-tog

New tog generated apps will use the last version of the plugins. If you’re updating an existing application, you should upgrade the plugins manually (sorry we’re working in this one) to the last tag. You can access them on http://github.com/tog/[PLUGIN_NAME]/tree/v0.4.0

From all of the people collaborating in tog to all the people using it, we hope you enjoy this release. Dig the code and have fun while we bake the next (Tog 0.5 “Io”) release.