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+          Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Fellinger m.fellinger@gmail.com
+ All files in this distribution are subject to the terms of the Ruby license.
+
+# About Ramaze
+
+Ramaze is a very simple and straight-forward web-framework.
+The philosophy of it could be expressed in a mix of KISS and POLS, trying to
+make simple things simple and complex things possible.
+
+This of course is nothing new to anyone who knows some ruby, but is often
+forgotten in a chase for new functionality and features. Ramaze only tries to
+give you the ultimate tools, but you have to use them yourself to achieve
+perfect custom-tailored results.
+
+Another one of the goals during development of Ramaze was to make every part as
+modular and therefor reusable as possible, not only to provide a basic
+understanding after the first glance, but also to make it as simple as possible
+to reuse parts of the code.
+
+The original purpose of Ramaze was to act as a kind of framework to build
+web-frameworks, this was made obsolete by the introduction of rack, which
+provides this feature at a better level without trying to enforce any structural
+layout of the resulting framework.
+
+
+# Features Overview
+
+Ramaze offers following features at the moment:
+
+* Adapters
+
+   Ramaze takes advantage of the rack library to provide a common way of
+   handling different ways to serve its content.
+
+   Rack supports at the moment:
+
+    * [Mongrel](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/)
+
+      Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for
+      hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than
+      FastCGI or SCGI.
+
+    * [WEBrick](http://www.webrick.org/)
+
+      WEBrick is a Ruby library program to build HTTP servers.
+
+    * CGI
+
+      CGI is the Common Gateway Interface and is one of the most basic ways
+      to integrate into Webservers like Apache or Lighttpd.
+
+    * FCGI
+
+      Improvment of CGI as it doesn't start up a new connection to Ramaze on
+      every request.
+
+
+* Templates
+  * [Erubis](http://rubyforge.org/projects/erubis)
+
+    Erubis is a fast, secure, and very extensible implementation of eRuby.
+
+  * [Haml](http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/)
+
+    Haml takes your gross, ugly templates and replaces them with veritable Haiku.
+
+  * [Liquid](http://home.leetsoft.com/liquid)
+
+    Liquid's syntax and parse model are inspired by Django templates, as well
+    as PHP's smarty.
+
+  * [Remarkably](http://rubyforge.org/projects/remarkably)
+
+    Remarkably is a very tiny Markaby-like XML builder
+
+  * [Markaby](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/markaby/)
+
+    Markaby means Markup as Ruby.
+
+  * [Sass](http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/sass)
+
+    Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of
+    a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows.
+
+  * Ezamar
+
+    A simple homage to [Nitro](http://nitroproject.org)s templating, is shipped
+    together with Ramaze.
+
+* Cache
+  * Hash
+  * YAML::Store
+  * MemCache
+
+* Helper
+  * Active by default
+    * CGI
+
+      Shortcuts for escape/unescape of the CGI module.
+
+    * File
+
+      Helps you serving files from your Controller.
+
+    * Flash
+
+      Store a couple of values for one request associated with a session.
+
+    * Link
+
+      Easier linking to the various parts of your applications Controllers and
+      Actions.
+
+    * Redirect
+
+      Easy redirection.
+
+  * Optional
+    * Aspect
+
+      Allows you to wrap different Actions on your Controller with code.
+
+    * Auth
+
+      Simple way to add basic authentication.
+
+    * Cache
+
+      Easy caching Actions and values.
+
+    * Identity
+
+      For ease of use of the OpenID authentication mechanism.
+
+    * Inform
+
+      Wrapping the functionality of Ramazes logging facilities.
+
+    * Nitroform
+
+      Hooks up on nitros form builder to help you creating forms from Og
+      objects.
+
+    * OpenID
+
+      Authentication via OpenID made easy.
+
+    * Pager
+
+      Displays a collection of entitities in multiple pages.
+
+    * Partial
+
+      Renders so-called partials.
+
+    * Stack
+
+      Allows you to use a call/answer mechanism for things like redirection to the
+      site a user entered login-forms from.
+
+* Various
+  * Sessions
+  * Global configuration system
+  * Simple request/response handling
+  * Custom sophisticated Error-handling
+
+
+# Basic Principles
+
+There are some basic principles that Ramaze tries to follow:
+
+* KISS (Keep It Super Simple)
+
+  Ramaze doesn't introduce any major change of paradigm for everyone familiar
+  with Ruby and the basics of Web-development.
+
+* POLS (Principle Of Least Surprise)
+
+  Ramaze tries to be intuitive and easy to learn. Most functionality is built in
+  a way to help, not to obfuscate or confuse.
+
+* Modular design
+
+  Use what you want and how you want it.
+
+  Through Ruby Ramaze provides one of the most powerful programming-languages
+  available, giving you full control over your system.
+
+  Even the most essential parts of Ramaze can easily be replaced and/or modified
+  without losing the advantage of the whole framework.
+
+* Minimal dependencies
+
+  Nothing besides Ruby is required for the basic features.
+
+  Of course you can take advantage of several wonderful libraries, but Ramaze is
+  built in a way to be run on any basic setup.
+
+* Documentation
+
+  Document everything, classes, modules, methods, configuration...
+
+  Through 100% documentation Ramaze gives the developer easy and solid
+  understanding of the underlying concepts and functionality.
+
+* Open development
+
+  Everyone is welcome to contribute to Ramaze in the easiest way possible. The
+  repository is open for patches passing the Test-suite.
+
+* Examples
+
+  Everyone learns different, some only read the source, others browse
+  documentation, but everyone loves examples for a quick and painless start.
+
+  Ramaze addresses this need and offers a wide variety of examples of usage,
+  basic functionality, project-layout and more advanced applications.
+
+* Fully BDD (Behaviour Driven Design)
+
+  Ramaze has a very complete set of so-called specifications built by RSpec.
+  These specs define the way Ramaze has to behave.
+
+  The specs are checked every time a new patch is pushed into the repository,
+  deciding whether the changes the patch applies are valid and don't break the framework.
+
+
+# Installation
+
+* via RubyGems
+
+  The simplest way of installing Ramaze is via the gem.
+
+  [Rubygems](http://rubygems.org) is the package manager for ruby apps and
+  libraries and provides you with the last tagged version of Ramaze.
+
+      $ gem install ramaze
+
+  Versions are made as we see fit and get an announcement out (usually that's
+  the major obstacle as there is a lot to announce).
+
+  If you want to install the nightly gem of Ramaze you can do this with:
+
+      $ gem install ramaze --source=http://gem.ramaze.net/
+
+  We also use the gem building process on github, which locates gems at
+  http://gems.github.com - so you can get a version from there as well:
+
+      $ gem install manveru-ramaze --source=http://gems.github.com/
+
+* via git
+
+  To get the latest and sweetest, you can just pull from the repository and run
+  Ramaze that way.
+
+      $ git clone git://github.com/manveru/ramaze.git
+
+  Please read the `man git` or `git help` for more information about updating
+  and creating your own patches.
+  This is at the moment the premier way to use Ramaze, since it is the way I
+  use it.
+
+  Some hints for the usage of Git.
+
+  * use `require 'ramaze'` from everywhere
+
+    Simply add the path to your repository to the RUBYLIB environment variable.
+    If you are using bash you can simply put following line into your .bashrc:
+
+        $ export RUBYLIB="$HOME/path/to/repo/lib/"
+
+    Of course you should put the real path instead, you can also add multiple
+    paths, or create your personal `site_ruby`:
+
+        $ export RUBYLIB="$HOME/ruby/ramaze/lib:$HOME/.site_ruby:$HOME/ruby/bacon/lib"
+
+  * use `require 'ramaze'` system wide from everywhere
+
+    add a file to your `site_ruby` directory named 'ramaze.rb'
+    the content should be: `require '/path/to/git/repo/ramaze/lib/ramaze'`
+
+  * Pull the latest version
+
+        $ git pull
+
+  * Reset the repo to original state (if you screw up something)
+
+        $ git reset --hard # resets the whole repo
+
+  * Revert changes to (for example) lib/ramaze.rb only
+
+        $ git checkout master lib/ramaze.rb
+
+  * Add and commit all changes.
+
+        $ git commit -a
+
+  * Adding only specific changes.
+
+        # Add hunks you want to commit to the staging area (index)
+        $ git add -p
+
+  * Commit the changes into the history of your repository
+
+        # Create a commit from the hunks added
+        $ git commit
+
+  * output your patches into a bundle ready to be mailed (compress it before
+    sending to make sure it arrives in the way you sent it)
+
+    At the end of this process you will have a tar.bz2 for all your changes
+    that you can mail to ramaze@googlegroups.com
+
+        # make sure you are on latest revision to avoid conflicts
+        $ git pull
+
+        # create 00xx-blah.patch files against the remote repo
+        $ git format-patch origin/HEAD
+
+        # From here on you can use either git-send-email or go the manual route
+        $ tar -cjf ramaze_bundle.tar.bz2 *.patch
+
+
+# Getting Started
+
+Now that you have a vague idea of what you're about to get into you might just
+want to get a way to get up and running ASAP.
+Please read below for more information about installation.
+
+Depending on what you are planning to do you can either just go and start
+reading the source or directly get some hands-on experience by trying some of
+the examples.
+Most things will require dependencies though. The basic functionality is
+provided by the WEBrick adapter and the Template::Ramaze, which just run out
+of the box. For more features you will have to install some templating-engines
+and mongrel (_very_ recommended). Ramaze will inform you when it needs further
+dependencies, so just go and try some things.
+
+Some places to get started are:
+- Read the documentation.
+- Run and read the test cases.
+- Look at the examples and run/modify them.
+
+
+
+# A couple of Examples
+
+There are some examples for your instant pleasure inside the examples-directory
+in the Ramaze-distribution.
+To start up an example, you can use the Ramaze binary located in bin/ramaze
+for example:
+
+  $ ramaze examples/hello.rb
+
+Or:
+
+  $ cd examples/blog
+  $ ramaze
+
+Since ramaze uses the start.rb by default if you don't pass anything else.
+
+For more information about the usage of ramaze try:
+
+  $ ramaze --help
+
+
+Examples include:
+
+* examples/hello.rb
+  Hello, World!
+
+* examples/simple.rb
+  A bit more advanced than the hello-example, but still very basic.
+
+* examples/blog
+  Not yet fully functional, but coming along.
+
+* examples/whywiki
+  A basic examples of a minimalistic application, based on the Wiki of \_why in
+  his camping-framework.
+
+* examples/templates
+  examples of real usage of the templating-engines. Tries to implement the same
+  functionality in each `template_*.rb` file using a different engine.
+
+
+
+# How to find Help
+
+For help you can:
+
+- Visit us in the channel #ramaze on irc.freenode.net
+
+- Join the Mailinglist at http://groups.google.com/group/ramaze
+
+
+# And thanks to...
+
+There is a large number of people who made Ramaze possible by their ongoing
+efforts in the world of open source and by encouraging and helping me.
+
+This list is by no means a full listing of all these people, but I try to
+get a good coverage despite that.
+
+I would like to thank:
+
+* Yukihiro Matsumoto a.k.a matz
+
+    For giving the world Ruby and bringing fun back into programming.
+
+* Zed Shaw a.k.a. zedas
+
+    For developing Mongrel, Ramaze started out as a simple Hello World based
+    on that awesome server.
+
+* Christian Neukirchen a.k.a chris2
+
+    For building rack, which is just what the numerous web-developers had
+    anticipated and which will, with no doubt, change the world.
+
+* Pistos
+
+    For continious encouragment and building the first real webpage on Ramaze.
+    His bugreports were invaluable.
+
+* Jim Weirich
+
+    For Rake, which lifts off a lot of tasks from the shoulders of every
+    developer who uses it.
+
+* Thomas Sawyer a.k.a Trans
+
+    Dragging me deep into the rabbit-hole and showing me how awesome Ruby
+    truely is through his work on facets, ratchets and tons of other projects.
+
+* George Moschovitis a.k.a gmosx
+
+    For his tremendous efforts in the Nitro/Og framework, which is a source of
+    steady inspiration for Ramaze and brought me to Ruby in the first place.
+
+* Rob Levin a.k.a. lilo
+
+    He founded the most excellent Freenode IRC-network, where the most important
+    channels for rubyists are located (as is #ramaze).
+    May he rest in peace.
+
+* The guys (and gals) in the various channels on Freenode
+
+    As the people are way too many to be listed, here the channels that i call
+    my online home.
+    All the people in there deserve special thanks for getting me hooked to Ruby
+    and providing their help in a friendly and patient manner.
+
+    * #nitro
+    * #ruby-de
+    * #ruby-lang
+    * #rubyforce