v1.0.0 (February 1, 2019)

Enhancements

• Gem Changes
  • Updated to ruby 2.6.1

Bug Fix

• Deploying a dataset that contains strings with special characters (accents ñ,
  emojis 😃, etc) now correctly encodes those characters

v0.14.1 (July 19, 2018)

Bug Fix

• Variable names that clash with certain ruby class methods no longer crash
  spout coverage

v0.14.0 (June 26, 2018)

Enhancements

• Framework Changes
  • Spout data dictionaries can now specify gem dependencies using gems.rb
    instead of Gemfile
  • Removed dependency on colorize gem
• Test Changes
  • Improved the spout testing framework
    • Tests are now run excusively using spout t command
    • Tests no longer spawn an extra process to run
    • Rake dependency has been removed
    • Failing tests no longer include an unnecessary rake backtrace

v0.13.0 (June 21, 2018)

Enhancements

• General Changes
  • Updated to ruby 2.5.1
  • Updated to simplecov 0.16.1
  • Improved memory management reading large CSVs
• Importer Changes
  • Added option to preserve case of input using the --preserve-case flag
    • spout import <variables.csv> --preserve-case

v0.12.1 (April 3, 2017)

Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug that prevented spout deploy from uploading data dictionaries

v0.12.0 (March 29, 2017)

Enhancements

• General Changes
  • Spout now provides a warning and skips columns in CSVs with blank headers
  • spout new command now generates CHANGELOG.md, README.md, and VERSION
    placeholder files
  • Integer and numeric variables can now reference a domain for missing values
• Update Command Added
  • Check for the latest version available using spout update
  • The update command provides steps to upgrade the data dictionary to the
    latest version Spout
• Exporter Changes
  • The export command now exports the variable forms attribute
  • Dictionary exports now are in exports instead of dd folder
• Importer Changes
  • The import command now reads in the commonly_used column
  • The import command now imports the variable forms attribute
  • CSVs of forms can now be imported using spout import <forms.csv> --forms
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.4.1
  • Updated to bundler 1.13
  • Updated to colorize 0.8.1
  • Updated to simplecov 0.14.1

Refactoring

• General code cleanup based on Rubocop recommendations

Bug Fixes

• The test_units example method now works if nil is defined in VALID_UNITS

v0.11.1 (February 4, 2016)

Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug that prevented variables without graphs from being pushed to server

v0.11.0 (January 19, 2016)

Deprecations

• Image Command
  • Spout variable graphs are no longer required as images by the NSRR webserver and have been removed

Enhancements

• Deploy Command
  • The deploy command can now accept flags and arguments that modify and scope graphs and images
    • ex: spout deploy WEBSERVER var1 var2 --rows=100 --clean
    • This pushes a clean version of graphs and images based on the first 100 rows in the CSVs for var1 and var2
  • Spout now provides detailed information when deploying variables, forms, and domains
  • CSVs can now be grouped into subfolders within their version folders, ex:
    • <project_name>/csvs/<VERSION>/dataset-main.csv
    • <project_name>/csvs/<VERSION>/subfolder/dataset-extra-a.csv
    • <project_name>/csvs/<VERSION>/subfolder/dataset-extra-b.csv
  • CHANGELOG.md and KNOWNISSUES.md are now uploaded alongside datasets during a deploy
• Graph Command
  • Tables no longer include unknown values for variables that don't exist across other CSVs with the same subject and visit
  • Tables still track unknown values if the CSV contains a column for the variable, but the cell for subject is blank
  • Histograms of variables that only contain a small range (less than 12) of integers now use discrete buckets of size 1 instead of creating fractional buckets
  • Numbers less than one now respect the precision of the number when computing means and related statistics
• Export Command
  • Commonly Used attribute is now included in data dictionary exports
• Tests Added
  • New tests were added to check the format of variable names, form names, and domain names
• Help Command
  • The help command now allows users to learn more about individual commands
    • ex: spout help deploy
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to Ruby 2.3.0
  • Bundler is now a required dependency

Refactoring

• Started refactoring code base to better adhere to RuboCop style recommendations
• Replaced dependency on ansi/code with colorize for better compatibility with Windows

v0.10.2 (December 29, 2014)

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that flooded test output with uninitialized string class instance variable @disable_colorization

v0.10.1 (December 1, 2014)

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that prevented spout deploy from searching for non-annotated/lightweight tags