Test release candidate for 1.0.0

[blackwinter]

To everyone watching this space,

there's a major release coming up that entails quite a few incompatibilities with previous releases. Hence, we try to document all the potentially user-facing changes here and have published a release candidate for others to test. Please leave a comment or open a new issue if you encounter any problems with this release candidate. Thanks!

The current documentation is available here.

Ruby version

Ruby 1.9.3 or higher is required. Support for Ruby 1.8.x has been dropped. (2d8f3da)

API changes

• The MediaWiki API methods have been grouped into modules under the MediaWiki::Gateway namespace. (bd987ab)
• MediaWiki::Utils has been added as a proper module. (cadbf8d)
• MediaWiki::FakeWiki has been added as a first-class citizen. (d34cade)
• MediaWiki::Config has been removed. (26224fd)
• MediaWiki::Gateway#send_request has been added, enabling you to send generic API requests not covered by the API. (3f59f01)
• MediaWiki::Gateway#custom_query has been made public. (107e03d)
• MediaWiki::Gateway#initialize learned user_agent option. (ddfbf84)
• MediaWiki::Gateway#headers has been exposed. (ddfbf84)
• MediaWiki::Gateway#wiki_url has been exposed, replacing the incorrectly exposed attribute MediaWiki::Gateway#base_url. (12f9b71)

  Dependency changes

• The explicit activesupport dependency has been removed. If activesupport is installed, it will be used for better Unicode support, but only if unicode is not available. (57a64ba)
• The Rails 2.3.x/RubyGems workaround (302097a) has been removed. (62560cf)
• Some of the development dependencies have been removed or exchanged with alternatives. This should only concern users who are working on the project directly (e.g., to run the test suite).

  Project layout changes

• mediawiki-gateway has been added as a command-line client replacing the previous sample scripts, changing some names and arguments along the way. (26224fd)
• As a courtesy to newcomers, it's now possible to write require 'mediawiki-gateway', which is equivalent to require 'media_wiki'. (ce42249)
• Bundler and RVM support files have been removed. This should only concern users who are working on the project directly (e.g., to run the test suite).

[jpatokal]

This looks awesome, but since this is very much a breaking change, please call it 1.0.0.pre or similar instead.

[blackwinter]

While SemVer explicitly states that during 0.y.z the public API should not be considered stable, I concede that we're also way past the initial development stage. So I'm fine with tacking the 1.0 label on this thing and call it a day ;)