Despite the best intentions with release 0.8.0, I still managed to drag
this release on for so long that a total of 76 changes made its way in.
But it’s all good. This release features yet another incredibly strong
showing from the community with some 22 contributors seeing their code
in the release. Special notice must go to Jeremy Kemper aka bitsweat
that has contributed a third of the changes in this release! And super
high quality patches too. Thanks, man.
On top of countless fixes and minor tweaks, we have a much improved new
approach to instantiating fixtures (with instant availability as
instance variables) and along the same lines a new way to reference
helpers. This heralds the way for more good things to come where
dependencies, whether it’s test cases on fixtures or controllers on
helpers, becomes part of the Rails domain language.
That’s a preview for how Rails will function after Needle has been
integrated, which will hopefully happen from release 0.9 thanks to the
incredible work of Jamis Buck and many good thoughts on the subject by
Dave Thomas and Jim Weirich. Rails will blaze the trail of transparent
depency injection with dynamic constants. Exciting stuff!
Get it all from http://www.rubyonrails.org, talk it up on #rubyonrails
(FreeNet).
Or even easier, just do “gem install rails” (or “gem update” if you’re
already running on Gem Rails) – you’ll automatically install all the
newest versions of the required dependencies.
Upgrading from 0.8.0 (refering to gems version):
- Create a new empty Rails project using “rails
/some/path/empty_project” - Copy over the new generators from script/ (hopefully for the last
time) - Copy over test/test_helper.rb (needed for the new fixture style)
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Rails 0.8.5: Shared generators, new_crud, breakpoints, fixes
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Made dev-util available to all tests, so you can insert breakpoints
in any test case to get an IRB prompt at that point [bitsweat]:def test_complex_stuff
@david.projects << @new_project
breakpoint "Let’s have a closer look at @david"
endYou need to install dev-utils yourself for this to work (“gem install
dev-util”). -
Added shared generator behavior so future upgrades should be possible
without manually copying over files [bitsweat] -
Added the new helper style to both controller and helper templates
[bitsweat] -
Added new_crud generator for creating a model and controller at the
same time with explicit scaffolding [bitsweat] -
Added configuration of Test::Unit::TestCase.fixture_path to
test_helper to concide with the new AR fixtures style -
Fixed that new_model was generating singular table/fixture names
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Upgraded to Action Mailer 0.4.0
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Upgraded to Action Pack 0.9.5
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Upgraded to Active Record 1.1.0
Action Mailer 0.4.0: Sendmail, better testing, more configurations
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Consolidated the server configuration options into
Base#server_settings= and expanded that with controls for
authentication and more [Marten] NOTE: This is an API change that could
potentially break your application if you used the old application
form. Please do change! -
Added Base#deliveries as an accessor for an array of emails sent out
through that ActionMailer class when using the :test delivery option.
[bitsweat] -
Added Base#perform_deliveries= which can be set to false to turn off
the actual delivery of the email through smtp or sendmail. This is
especially useful for functional testing that shouldn’t send off real
emails, but still trigger delivery_* methods. -
Added option to specify delivery method with Base#delivery_method=.
Default is :smtp and :sendmail is currently the only other option.
Sendmail is assumed to be present at “/usr/sbin/sendmail” if that
option is used. [Kent Sibilev] -
Dropped “include TMail” as it added to much baggage into the default
namespace (like Version) [Chad Fowler]
Active Record 1.0.0: Better fixtures, rich habtm associations,
equality, fixes
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Added automatic fixture setup and instance variable availability.
Fixtures can also be automatically instantiated in instance variables
relating to their names using the following style:class FixturesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :developers # you can add more with comma separationdef test_developers assert_equal 3, @developers.size # the container for all the
fixtures is automatically set
assert_kind_of Developer, @david # works like
@developers[“david”].find
assert_equal “David Heinemeier Hansson”, @david.name
end
end
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Added HasAndBelongsToManyAssociation#push_with_attributes(object,
join_attributes) that can create associations in the join table with
additional attributes. This is really useful when you have information
that’s only relevant to the join itself, such as a “added_on” column
for an association between post and category. The added attributes will
automatically be injected into objects retrieved through the
association similar to the piggy-back approach:post.categories.push_with_attributes(category, :added_on =>
Date.today)
post.categories.first.added_on # => Date.todayNOTE: The categories table doesn’t have a added_on column, it’s the
categories_post join table that does! -
Added Base#hash and Base#eql? which means that all of the equality
using features of array and other containers now works:[ Person.find(1), Person.find(2), Person.find(3) ] &
[ Person.find(1), Person.find(4) ] # => [ Person.find(1) ] -
Fixed that :exclusively_dependent and :dependent can’t be activated
at the same time on has_many associations [bitsweat] -
Fixed that database passwords couldn’t be all numeric [bitsweat]
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Fixed that calling id would create the instance variable for
new_records preventing them from being saved correctly [bitsweat] -
Added sanitization feature to HasManyAssociation#find_all so it works
just like Base.find_all [Sam Stephenson/bitsweat] -
Added that you can pass overlapping ids to find without getting
duplicated records back [bitsweat] -
Added that Base.benchmark returns the result of the block [bitsweat]
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Fixed problem with unit tests on Windows with SQLite [paterno]
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Fixed that quotes would break regular non-yaml fixtures [Dmitry
Sabanin/daft] -
Fixed fixtures on windows with line endings cause problems under unix
/ mac [Tobias Luetke] -
Added HasAndBelongsToManyAssociation#find(id) that’ll search inside
the collection and find the object or record with that id -
Added :conditions option to has_and_belongs_to_many that works just
like the one on all the other associations -
Added AssociationCollection#clear to remove all associations from
has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many associations without destroying
the records [geech] -
Added type-checking and remove in 1-instead-of-N sql statements to
AssociationCollection#delete [geech] -
Added a return of self to AssociationCollection#<< so appending can
be chained, like project << Milestone.create << Milestone.create
[geech] -
Added :uniq as an option to has_and_belongs_to_many which will
automatically ensure that AssociateCollection#uniq is called before
pulling records out of the association. This is especially useful for
three-way (and above) has_and_belongs_to_many associations. -
Added AssociateCollection#uniq which is especially useful for
has_and_belongs_to_many associations that can include duplicates,
which is common on associations that also use metadata. Usage:
post.categories.uniq -
Fixed respond_to? to use a subclass specific hash instead of an
Active Record-wide one -
Fixed has_and_belongs_to_many to treat associations between classes
in modules properly [Florian Weber] -
Added a NoMethod exception to be raised when query and writer methods
are called for attributes that doesn’t exist [geech] -
Added a more robust version of Fixtures that throws meaningful errors
when on formatting issues [geech] -
Added Base#transaction as a compliment to Base.transaction for
prettier use in instance methods [geech] -
Improved the speed of respond_to? by placing the dynamic methods
lookup table in a hash [geech] -
Added that any additional fields added to the join table in a
has_and_belongs_to_many association will be placed as attributes when
pulling records out through has_and_belongs_to_many associations. This
is helpful when have information about the association itself that you
want available on retrival. -
Added better loading exception catching and RubyGems retries to the
database adapters [alexeyv] -
Fixed bug with per-model transactions [daniel]
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Fixed Base#transaction so that it returns the result of the last
expression in the transaction block [alexeyv] -
Added Fixture#find to find the record corresponding to the fixture
id. The record class name is guessed by using Inflector#classify (also
new) on the fixture directory name.Before: Document.find(@documents[“first”][“id”])
After : @documents[“first”].find -
Fixed that the table name part of column names (“TABLE.COLUMN”)
wasn’t removed properly [Andreas Schwarz] -
Fixed a bug with Base#size when a finder_sql was used that didn’t
capitalize SELECT and FROM [geech] -
Fixed quoting problems on SQLite by adding quote_string to the
AbstractAdapter that can be overwritten by the concrete adapters for a
call to the dbm. [Andreas Schwarz] -
Removed RubyGems backup strategy for requiring SQLite-adapter – if
people want to use gems, they’re already doing it with AR.
Action Pack 0.9.5: New helper style, fix for unchecked checkboxes, fixes
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Added a new way to include helpers that doesn’t require the include
hack and can go without the explicit require. [bitsweat]Before:
module WeblogHelper
def self.append_features(controller) #:nodoc:
controller.ancestors.include?(ActionController::Base) ?
controller.add_template_helper(self) : super
end
endrequire 'weblog_helper’
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
include WeblogHelper
endAfter:
module WeblogHelper
endclass WeblogController < ActionController::Base
helper :weblog
end -
Added helper_method to designate that a given private or protected
method you should available as a helper in the view. [bitsweat] -
Added a hidden field to checkboxes generated with
FormHelper#check_box that will make sure that the unchecked value
(usually 0) is sent even if the checkbox is not checked. This relieves
the controller from doing custom checking if the the checkbox wasn’t
checked. BEWARE: This might conflict with your run-on-the-mill
work-around code. [Tobias Luetke] -
Fixed assert_rendered_file so it actually verifies if that was the
rendered file [htonl] -
Added the option for sharing partial spacer templates just like
partials themselves [radsaq] -
Fixed that Russia was named twice in country_select [alexey]
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Fixed request_origin to use remote_ip instead of remote_addr
[bitsweat] -
Fixed link_to breakage when nil was passed for html_options [alexey]
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Fixed redirect_to on a virtual server setup with apache with a port
other than the default where it would forget the port number
[seanohalpin] -
Fixed that auto-loading webrick on Windows would cause file uploads
to fail [bitsweat] -
Fixed issues with sending files on WEBrick by setting the proper
binmode [bitsweat] -
Added send_data as an alternative to send_file when the stream is not
read off the filesystem but from a database or generated live
[bitsweat] -
Added a default content-type of “text/xml” to .rxml renders [Ryan
Platte] -
Fixed that when /controller/index was requested by the browser,
url_for would generates wrong URLs [Ryan Platte] -
Fixed a bug that would share cookies between users when using FastCGI
and mod_ruby [The Robot Co-op] -
Added an optional third hash parameter to the process method in
functional tests that takes the session data to be used [alexey] -
Added UrlHelper#mail_to to make it easier to create mailto: style
ahrefs -
Added better error messages for layouts declared with the .rhtml
extension (which they shouldn’t) [geech] -
Added another case to DateHelper#distance_in_minutes to return “less
than a minute” instead of “0 minutes” and “1 minute” instead of “1
minutes” -
Fixed error_message_on to just use the first if more than one error
had been added [marcel] -
Fixed that URL rewriting with /controller/ was working but
/controller was not and that you couldn’t use :id on index [geech] -
Fixed a bug with link_to where the :confirm option wouldn’t be picked
up if the link was a straight url instead of an option hash -
Changed scaffolding of forms to use tags instead of to
please W3C [evl] -
Added DateHelper#distance_of_time_in_words_to_now(from_time) that
works like distance_of_time_in_words, but where to_time is
fixed to Time.now. -
Added assert_flash_equal(expected, key, message),
assert_session_equal(expected, key, message),
assert_assigned_equal(expected, key, message) to test the contents of
flash, session, and template assigns. -
Improved the failure report on assert_success when the action
triggered a redirection [alexey]. -
Added “markdown” to accompany “textilize” as a TextHelper method for
converting text to HTML using the Markdown syntax. BlueCloth must be
installed in order for this method to become available. -
Made sure that an active session exists before we attempt to delete
it [Samuel] -
Changed link_to with Javascript confirmation to use onclick instead
of onClick for XHTML validity [Scott Barron]