Redmine Knowledgebase 3.2.0 Released

I haven’t been very actively involved with this plugin or the Redmine community as a whole lately, but it would seem there is a very active user-base still logging bugs and enhancing this project.

You can grab a copy of the release on GitHub.

I’m pushing out version 3.2.0 of the plugin thanks to the efforts of some very dedicated community members, who I’d like to highlight below:

Thanks to Frederico Camara:

• updating acts_as_rated to work with Redmine 3.2.x

Thanks to Eduard Kuleshov:

• getting this plugin supported in Redmine 3.0.x

Thanks to Axel Kämpfe:

• getting this plugin supported in Redmine 3.1.x and 3.2.x

HUGE thanks to Rob Spearman for basically taking over the project and pushing it forward:

New Configuaration options

• Show articles without tabs
• Show attachments before article content
• Show thumbnails for articles in lists
• Show breadcrumbs for articles in lists

New permissions

• Article history will only show up if have view permission
• optional permission for users to manage just their own articles. (#306)

Layout

• Sort Tags on the index page
• Added authored view so users can find articles by author easily

Bug Fixes

• article view counts not updating (#304)
• top rated list not valid (#305)
• ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError (Attempted to destroy a stale object: KbArticle) (#300)
• Error when generating a PDF of an article with pictures (#308)
• 500 Internal Server Error - if DELETE category but it’s have subcategory (#293)

Note that this is a preliminary release as there is one bug in here that I haven’t squashed.

When trying to search, you’re prompted with a failure similar to:

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Started GET "/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=stuff" for 127.0.0.1 at 2016-06-23 01:14:06 +0000
Processing by SearchController#index as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "q"=>"stuff"}
  Current user: admin (id=1)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 632ms (ActiveRecord: 173.6ms)

NoMethodError (undefined method `where' for #<Hash:0x000000096b0d60>):
  lib/plugins/acts_as_searchable/lib/acts_as_searchable.rb:93:in `search_result_ranks_and_ids'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:127:in `block in load_result_ids'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:125:in `each'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:125:in `load_result_ids'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:115:in `block in load_result_ids_from_cache'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:114:in `load_result_ids_from_cache'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:99:in `result_ids'
  lib/redmine/search.rb:70:in `result_count'
  app/controllers/search_controller.rb:65:in `index'
  lib/redmine/sudo_mode.rb:63:in `sudo_mode'

I’m pretty sure this has to do with how we’re setting up acts_as_searchable in the kb_article model. Any suggestions welcome ;)