Ryan Tomayko provided a great changelist for the new gem release of Sinatra, which I hope to expand on a bit here, by pointing you to more details on the changes.

Here’s a quick summary of changes since the 0.2.2 release:

• Add sinatra.gemspec w/ support for github gem builds. Forks can now
  enable the build gem option in github to get free username-sinatra.gem
  builds: gem install username-sinatra.gem — source=http://gems.github.com/
• Require Rack 0.4; removes frozen rack dir.
• Basic RSpec support; require ‘sinatra/test/rspec’ instead of
  ‘sinatra/test/spec’ to use. [avdi]
• before filters can modify request environment vars used for
  routing (e.g., PATH_INFO, REQUEST_METHOD, etc.) for URL rewriting
  type functionality.
• In-file templates now uses @@ instead of ## as template separator.
• Top-level environment test predicates: development?, test?, production?
• Top-level “set”, “enable”, and “disable” methods for tweaking
  app options. [rtomayko] — This allows the syntax in my post about options
• Top-level “use” method for building Rack middleware pipelines
  leading to app. see readme for usage. [rtomayko] — this is the use syntax in my post about sessions
• New “reload” option - set false to disable reloading in development.
• New “host” option - host/ip to bind to [cschneid]
• New “app_file” option - override the file to reload in development
  mode [cschneid] — This makes embedding Sinatra inside other apps easier to do during development. More info in my app_file post.
• Development error/not_found page cleanup [sr, adamwiggins]
• Remove a bunch of core extensions (String#to_param, String#from_param,
  Hash#from_params, Hash#to_params, Hash#symbolize_keys, Hash#pass)
• Various grammar and formatting fixes to README; additions on
  community and contributing [cypher]
• Build RDoc using Hanna template: http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/api/
• Specs, documentation and fixes for splat’n routes [vic] — See how to use splat routes in my post on it.
• Fix whitespace errors across all source files. [rtomayko]
• Fix streaming issues with Mongrel (body not closed). [bmizerany]
• Fix various issues with environment not being set properly (configure
  blocks not running, error pages not registering, etc.) [cypher]
• Fix to allow locals to be passed to ERB templates [cschneid] — More Details
• Fix locking issues causing random errors during reload in development.
• Fix for escaped paths not resolving static files [Matthew Walker]

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