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Rails 3.2.1 has been released »

Created at: 27.01.2012 01:32, source: Riding Rails - home, tagged: Releases

Rails 3.2.1 is out, with some fixes and doc improvements. Please check the CHANGELOGs gist for details.

Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store »

Created at: 20.01.2012 19:22, source: Riding Rails - home, tagged: Releases

So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked, tested, and ready to roll!

I’ve been running on 3-2-stable for a few months working on Basecamp Next and it’s been a real treat. The new faster dev mode in particular is a major step up over 3.1.

Do remember that this is the last intended release series that’s going to support Ruby 1.8.7. The master git branch for Rails is now targeting Rails 4.0, which will require Ruby 1.9.3 and above. So now is a great time to start the work on getting your app ready for the current version of Ruby. Let’s not hang around old versions forever and a Sunday like those Python guys :).

There’s a v3.2.0 tag on Github and we of course we still have the 3-2-stable branch as well. You can see all the glorious details of everything that was changed in our CHANGELOG compilation.

For documentation, we have the 3.2 release notes with upgrade instructions, both the API docs and the guides have been generated for 3.2 as well, and there’s a brand new 3.2-compatible version of Agile Web Development with Rails. A smörgåsbord indeed!

Note: If you’re having trouble installing the gems under Ruby 1.8.7, you’ve probably hit a RubyGems bug with YAML that’s been fixed in RubyGems 1.8.15. You can upgrade RubyGems using “gem update—system”.

If you can’t be bothered with the full release notes, here’s a reprint of a few feature highlights from when we did the first release candidate:

Faster dev mode & routing

The most noticeable new feature is that development mode got a ton and a half faster. Inspired by Active Reload, we now only reload classes from files you’ve actually changed. The difference is dramatic on a larger application.

Route recognition also got a bunch faster thanks to the new Journey engine and we made linking much faster as well (especially apparent when you’re having 100+ links on a single page).

Explain queries

We’ve added a quick and easy way to explain quieries generated by ARel. In the console, you can run something like puts Person.active.limit(5).explain and you’ll get the query ARel produces explained (so you can easily see whether its using the right indexes). There’s even a default threshold in development mode where if a query takes more than half a second to run, it’s automatically explained inline—how about that!

Tagged logger

When you’re running a multi-user, multi-account application, it’s a great help to be able to filter the log by who did what. Enter the TaggedLogging wrapper. It works like this:

Logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(Logger.new(STDOUT))
Logger.tagged("BCX") { Logger.info "Stuff" } # Logs "[BCX] Stuff" 
Logger.tagged("BCX") do
  Logger.tagged("Jason") do
    Logger.info "Stuff" # Logs "\[BCX\] \[Jason\] Stuff" 
  end
end

Active Record Store

Key/value stores are great, but it’s not always you want to go the whole honking way just for a little variable-key action. Enter the Active Record Store:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ]
end

u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
u.color                          # Accessor stored attribute
u.settings[:country] = 'Denmark' # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor

Rails 3.2.0.rc2 has been released! »

Created at: 04.01.2012 23:01, source: Riding Rails - home, tagged: Releases 3.2.0 rails rails release

Hi everyone,

Rails 3.2.0.rc2 has been released!

What to update in your apps

• Update your Gemfile to depend on rails ~> 3.2.0.rc2
• Update your Gemfile to depend on sass-rails ~> 3.2.3
• Start moving any remaining Rails 2.3-style vendor/plugins/*. These are finally deprecated!

Extract your vendor/plugins to their own gems and bundle them in your Gemfile. If they're tiny, not worthy of the own gem, fold it into your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb.

Changes since RC1

ActionMailer

• No changes

ActionPack

• Add font_path helper method Santiago Pastorino

• Depends on rack ~> 1.4.0 Santiago Pastorino

• Add :gzip option to caches_page. The default option can be configured globally using page_cache_compression Andrey Sitnik

ActiveModel

• No changes

ActiveRecord

• No changes

ActiveResource

• No changes

ActiveSupport

• ActiveSupport::Base64 is deprecated in favor of ::Base64. Sergey Nartimov

Railties

• Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins are deprecated and will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out of vendor/plugins and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. Santiago Pastorino

• Guides are available as a single .mobi for the Kindle and free Kindle readers apps. Michael Pearson & Xavier Noria

• Allow scaffold/model/migration generators to accept a "index" and "uniq" modifiers, as in: "tracking_id:integer:uniq" in order to generate (unique) indexes. Some types also accept custom options, for instance, you can specify the precision and scale for decimals as "price:decimal{7,2}". Dmitrii Samoilov

Gem checksums

• MD5 (actionmailer-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = 118c83b2cddaa935d1de7534cfb6c810
• MD5 (actionpack-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = 6b18851bc26d5c8958672f27adda05ca
• MD5 (activemodel-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = d82f4eed949dcff17f8bf2aed806679a
• MD5 (activerecord-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = d07806fd5fc464f960200d20ceb2193a
• MD5 (activeresource-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = f51af240ff4623b0b6f8a4293ffa50dc
• MD5 (activesupport-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = 01380240c12e0380c9e61c97dd45f2f1
• MD5 (rails-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = 134f923f7d821f514abf6bdf4af62ca7
• MD5 (railties-3.2.0.rc2.gem) = 4b3ac0f9c5da16b90a1875e8199253d2

You can find an exhaustive list of changes on github. Along with the closed issues marked for v3.2.0.

You can also see issues we haven't closed yet.

Thanks to everyone!

Rails 3.2 RC1: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store »

Created at: 20.12.2011 02:46, source: Riding Rails - home, tagged: Releases

Once you’ve boarded the Rails train, you just know that every stop along the way is going to be a good time. This release candidate is no different and we’ve packed it with loving goodies without making upgrading a hassle.

Faster dev mode & routing

The most noticeable new feature is that development mode got a ton and a half faster. Inspired by Active Reload, we now only reload classes from files you’ve actually changed. The difference is dramatic on a larger application.

Route recognition also got a bunch faster thanks to the new Journey engine and we made linking much faster as well (especially apparent when you’re having 100+ links on a single page).

Explain queries

We’ve added a quick and easy way to explain quieries generated by ARel. In the console, you can run something like puts Person.active.limit(5).explain and you’ll get the query ARel produces explained (so you can easily see whether its using the right indexes). There’s even a default threshold in development mode where if a query takes more than half a second to run, it’s automatically explained inline—how about that!

Tagged logger

When you’re running a multi-user, multi-account application, it’s a great help to be able to filter the log by who did what. Enter the TaggedLogging wrapper. It works like this:

Logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(Logger.new(STDOUT))
Logger.tagged("BCX") { Logger.info "Stuff" } # Logs "[BCX] Stuff" 
Logger.tagged("BCX") do
  Logger.tagged("Jason") do
    Logger.info "Stuff" # Logs "\[BCX\] \[Jason\] Stuff" 
  end
end

Active Record Store

Key/value stores are great, but it’s not always you want to go the whole honking way just for a little variable-key action. Enter the Active Record Store:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ]
end

u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
u.color                          # Accessor stored attribute
u.settings[:country] = 'Denmark' # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor

These are just a few of the highlights. The full release notes detail every loving change.

Given that this is a release candidate, we’re ever so eager to hear your feedback. We hope it’ll be a quick RC phase, but please do spoil that plan by reporting bugs.

As always, you install a release candidate by doing gem install rails --pre.

Rails 3.1.1 has been released! »

Created at: 07.10.2011 18:20, source: Riding Rails - home, tagged: Releases 3.1.1 rails rails release

Hi everyone,

Rails 3.1.1 has been released. This release requires at least sass-rails 3.1.4

CHANGES

ActionMailer

• No changes

ActionPack

• stylesheetlinktag('/stylesheets/application') and similar helpers doesn't throw Sprockets::FileOutsidePaths exception anymore [Santiago Pastorino]

• Ensure defaultassethost_protocol is respected, closes #2980. [José Valim]

  Changing rake db:schema:dump to run :environment as well as :load_config, as running :load_config alone will lead to the dumper being run without including extensions such as those included in foreigner and spatial_adapter.

  This reverses a change made here: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5df72a238e9fcb18daf6ab6e6dc9051c9106d7bb#L0L324

  I'm assuming here that :load_config needs to be invoked separately from :environment, as it is elsewhere in the file for db operations, if not the alternative is to go back to "task :dump => :environment do".

  [Ben Woosley]

• Update to rack-cache 1.1.

  Versions prior to 1.1 delete the If-Modified-Since and If-Not-Modified headers when config.actioncontroller.performcaching is true. This has two problems:

  • unexpected inconsistent behaviour between development & production environments
  • breaks applications that use of these headers

  [Brendan Ribera]

• Ensure that enhancements to assets:precompile task are only run once [Sam Pohlenz]

• TestCase should respect the view_assigns API instead of pulling variables on its own. [José Valim]

• javascriptpath and stylesheetpath now refer to /assets if asset pipelining is on. [Santiago Pastorino]

• button_to support form option. Now you're able to pass for example 'data-type' => 'json'. [ihower]

• imagepath and imagetag should use /assets if asset pipelining is turned on. Closes #3126 [Santiago Pastorino and christos]

• Avoid use of existing precompiled assets during rake assets:precompile run. Closes #3119 [Guillermo Iguaran]

• Copy assets to nondigested filenames too [Santiago Pastorino]

• Give precedence to config.digest = false over the existence of manifest.yml asset digests [christos]

• escape options for the stylesheetlinktag method [Alexey Vakhov]

• Re-launch assets:precompile task using (Rake.)ruby instead of Kernel.exec so it works on Windows [cablegram]

• env var passed to process shouldn't be modified in process method. [Santiago Pastorino]

• rake assets:precompile loads the application but does not initialize it.

  To the app developer, this means configuration add in config/initializers/* will not be executed.

  Plugins developers need to special case their initializers that are meant to be run in the assets group by adding :group => :assets. [José Valim]

• Sprockets uses config.assets.prefix for asset_path [asee]

• FileStore keyfilepath properly limit filenames to 255 characters. [phuibonhoa]

• Fix Hash#toquery edge case with htmlsafe strings. [brainopia]

• Allow asset tag helper methods to accept :digest => false option in order to completely avoid the digest generation. Useful for linking assets from static html files or from emails when the user could probably look at an older html email with an older asset. [Santiago Pastorino]

• Don't mount Sprockets server at config.assets.prefix if config.assets.compile is false. [Mark J. Titorenko]

• Set relative url root in assets when controller isn't available for Sprockets (eg. Sass files using asset_path). Fixes #2435 [Guillermo Iguaran]

• Fix basic auth credential generation to not make newlines. GH #2882

• Fixed the behavior of asset pipeline when config.assets.digest and config.assets.compile are false and requested asset isn't precompiled. Before the requested asset were compiled anyway ignoring that the config.assets.compile flag is false. [Guillermo Iguaran]

• CookieJar is now Enumerable. Fixes #2795

• Fixed AssetNotPrecompiled error raised when rake assets:precompile is compiling certain .erb files. See GH #2763 #2765 #2805 [Guillermo Iguaran]

• Manifest is correctly placed in assets path when default assets prefix is changed. Fixes #2776 [Guillermo Iguaran]

• Fixed stylesheetlinktag and javascriptincludetag to respect additional options passed by the users when debug is on. [Guillermo Iguaran]

• Fix ActiveRecord#exists? when passsed a nil value

• Fix assertselectemail to work on multipart and non-multipart emails as the method stopped working correctly in Rails 3.x due to changes in the new mail gem.

• Remove hard dependency on bcrypt-ruby to avoid make ActiveModel dependent on a binary library. You must add the gem explicitly to your Gemfile if you want use ActiveModel::SecurePassword:

  gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '~> 3.0.0'

  See GH #2687. [Guillermo Iguaran]

ActiveRecord

• Add deprecation for the preload_associations method. Fixes #3022.

  [Jon Leighton]

• Don't require a DB connection when loading a model that uses setprimarykey. GH #2807.

  [Jon Leighton]

• Fix using select() with a habtm association, e.g. Person.friends.select(:name). GH #3030 and #2923.

  [Hendy Tanata]

• Fix belongs_to polymorphic with custom primary key on target. GH #3104.

  [Jon Leighton]

• CollectionProxy#replace should change the DB records rather than just mutating the array. Fixes #3020.

  [Jon Leighton]

• LRU cache in mysql and sqlite are now per-process caches.

  • lib/activerecord/connectionadapters/mysql_adapter.rb: LRU cache keys are per process id.
  • lib/activerecord/connectionadapters/sqlite_adapter.rb: ditto

• Database adapters use a statement pool for limiting the number of open prepared statments on the database. The limit defaults to 1000, but can be adjusted in your database config by changing 'statement_limit'.

• Fix clash between using 'preload', 'joins' or 'eager_load' in a default scope and including the default scoped model in a nested through association. (GH #2834.) [Jon Leighton]

• Ensure we are not comparing a string with a symbol in HasManyAssociation#inverseupdatescounter_cache?. Fixes GH #2755, where a counter cache could be decremented twice as far as it was supposed to be.

  [Jon Leighton]

• Don't send any queries to the database when the foreign key of a belongs_to is nil. Fixes GH #2828. [Georg Friedrich]

• Fixed findin_batches method to not include order from defaultscope. See GH #2832 [Arun Agrawal]

• Don't compute table name for abstract classes. Fixes problem with setting the primary key in an abstract class. See GH #2791. [Akira Matsuda]

• Psych errors with poor yaml formatting are proxied. Fixes GH #2645 and GH #2731

• Use the LIMIT word with the methods #last and #first. Fixes GH #2783 [Damien Mathieu]

ActiveResource

• No changes

ActiveSupport

• ruby193: String#prepend is also unsafe [Akira Matsuda]

• Fix obviously breakage of Time.=== for Time subclasses [jeremyevans]

• Added fix so that file store does not raise an exception when cache dir does not exist yet. This can happen if a delete_matched is called before anything is saved in the cache. [Philippe Huibonhoa]

• Fixed performance issue where TimeZone lookups would require tzinfo each time [Tim Lucas]

• ActiveSupport::OrderedHash is now marked as extractable when using Array#extract_options! [Prem Sichanugrist]

Railties

• Add jquery-rails to Gemfile of plugins, test/dummy app needs it. Closes #3091. [Santiago Pastorino]

• rake assets:precompile loads the application but does not initialize it.

  To the app developer, this means configuration add in config/initializers/* will not be executed.

  Plugins developers need to special case their initializers that are meant to be run in the assets group by adding :group => :assets.

SHA-1

• 9337cff7772da034b0b34b73b85cf249f1a70f52 actionmailer-3.1.1.gem
• 7bb1b8d096a6ff1ff46dcfb778bf86a5daca1b0d actionpack-3.1.1.gem
• d5dc71e1a9a0e20d819f4dff27ff0697e99a7f64 activemodel-3.1.1.gem
• 7245632cb3b38612628304c1e244855d0053f7be activerecord-3.1.1.gem
• 6d09800202c2747e84249b8646f0fd480ed4924f activeresource-3.1.1.gem
• 66df2fd144aab22f52819fd489e33a976d68a46b activesupport-3.1.1.gem
• 6a35a49948bbd9f461839a1a271def90b23a851a rails-3.1.1.gem
• 6979ef891bd03fb639b979af9fdc56781f9358d9 railties-3.1.1.gem

You can find an exhaustive list of changes on github. Along with the closed issues marked for v3.1.1.

Thanks to everyone!