rails/railties/CHANGELOG.md
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Rails 3.2.0 (unreleased)

  • Scaffold returns 204 No Content for API requests without content. This makes scaffold work with jQuery out of the box. José Valim

  • Updated Rails::Rack::Logger middleware to apply any tags set in config.log_tags to the newly ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging Rails.logger. This makes it easy to tag log lines with debug information like subdomain and request id -- both very helpful in debugging multi-user production applications DHH

  • Default options to rails new can be set in ~/.railsrc Guillermo Iguaran

  • Added destroy alias to Rails engines. Guillermo Iguaran

  • Added destroy alias for Rails command line. This allows the following: rails d model post. Andrey Ognevsky

  • Attributes on scaffold and model generators default to string. This allows the following: "rails g scaffold Post title body:text author" José Valim

  • Removed old plugin generator (rails generate plugin) in favor of rails plugin new command. Guillermo Iguaran

  • Removed old 'config.paths.app.controller' API in favor of 'config.paths["app/controller"]' API. Guillermo Iguaran

  • Rails 3.1.1

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

  • Add config.assets.initialize_on_precompile which, when set to false, forces rake assets:precompile to load 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.

Rails 3.1.2 (unreleased)

  • Engines: don't blow up if db/seeds.rb is missing.

    Jeremy Kemper

  • rails new foo --skip-test-unit should not add the :test task to the rake default task. GH 2564

    José Valim

Rails 3.1.0 (August 30, 2011)

  • The default database schema file is written as UTF-8. Aaron Patterson

  • Generated apps with --dev or --edge flags depend on git versions of sass-rails and coffee-rails. Santiago Pastorino

  • Rack::Sendfile middleware is used only if x_sendfile_header is present. Santiago Pastorino

  • Add JavaScript Runtime name to the Rails Info properties. DHH

  • Make pp enabled by default in Rails console. Akira Matsuda

  • Add alias r for rails runner. Jordi Romero

  • Make sprockets/railtie require explicit and add --skip-sprockets to app generator José Valim

  • Added Rails.groups that automatically handles Rails.env and ENV["RAILS_GROUPS"] José Valim

  • The new rake task assets:clean removes precompiled assets. fxn

  • Application and plugin generation run bundle install unless --skip-gemfile or --skip-bundle. fxn

  • Fixed database tasks for jdbc* adapters #jruby Rashmi Yadav

  • Template generation for jdbcpostgresql #jruby Vishnu Atrai

  • Template generation for jdbcmysql and jdbcsqlite3 #jruby Arun Agrawal

  • The -j option of the application generator accepts an arbitrary string. If passed "foo", the gem "foo-rails" is added to the Gemfile, and the application JavaScript manifest requires "foo" and "foo_ujs". As of this writing "prototype-rails" and "jquery-rails" exist and provide those files via the asset pipeline. Default is "jquery". fxn

  • jQuery is no longer vendored, it is provided from now on by the jquery-rails gem. fxn

  • Prototype and Scriptaculous are no longer vendored, they are provided from now on by the prototype-rails gem. fxn

  • The scaffold controller will now produce SCSS file if Sass is available Prem Sichanugrist

  • The controller and resource generators will now automatically produce asset stubs (this can be turned off with --skip-assets). These stubs will use Coffee and Sass, if those libraries are available. DHH

  • jQuery is the new default JavaScript library. fxn

  • Changed scaffold, application, and mailer generator to create Ruby 1.9 style hash when running on Ruby 1.9 Prem Sichanugrist

    So instead of creating something like:

    redirect_to users_path, :notice => "User has been created"
    

    it will now be like this:

    redirect_to users_path, notice: "User has been created"
    

    You can also passing --old-style-hash to make Rails generate old style hash even you're on Ruby 1.9

  • Changed scaffold_controller generator to create format block for JSON instead of XML Prem Sichanugrist

  • Add using Turn with natural language test case names for test_help.rb when running with minitest (Ruby 1.9.2+) DHH

  • Direct logging of Active Record to STDOUT so it's shown inline with the results in the console DHH

  • Added config.force_ssl configuration which loads Rack::SSL middleware and force all requests to be under HTTPS protocol DHH, Prem Sichanugrist, and Josh Peek

  • Added rails plugin new command which generates rails plugin with gemspec, tests and dummy application for testing Piotr Sarnacki

  • Added -j parameter with jquery/prototype as options. Now you can create your apps with jQuery using rails new myapp -j jquery. The default is still Prototype. siong1987

  • Added Rack::Etag and Rack::ConditionalGet to the default middleware stack José Valim

  • Added Rack::Cache to the default middleware stack Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche

  • Engine is now rack application Piotr Sarnacki

  • Added middleware stack to Engine Piotr Sarnacki

  • Engine can now load plugins Piotr Sarnacki

  • Engine can load its own environment file Piotr Sarnacki

  • Added helpers to call engines' route helpers from application and vice versa Piotr Sarnacki

  • Task for copying plugins' and engines' migrations to application's db/migrate directory Piotr Sarnacki

  • Changed ActionDispatch::Static to allow handling multiple directories Piotr Sarnacki

  • Added isolate_namespace() method to Engine, which sets Engine as isolated Piotr Sarnacki

  • Include all helpers from plugins and shared engines in application Piotr Sarnacki

Rails 3.0.7 (April 18, 2011)

  • No changes.

  • Rails 3.0.6 (April 5, 2011)

  • No changes.

Rails 3.0.5 (February 26, 2011)

  • No changes.

Rails 3.0.4 (February 8, 2011)

  • No changes.

Rails 3.0.3 (November 16, 2010)

  • No changes.

Rails 3.0.2 (November 15, 2010)

  • No changes.

Rails 3.0.1 (October 15, 2010)

  • No Changes, just a version bump.

Rails 3.0.0 (August 29, 2010)

  • Application generation: --skip-testunit and --skip-activerecord become --skip-test-unit and --skip-active-record respectively. fxn

  • Added console to Rails::Railtie as a hook called just after console starts. José Valim

  • Rails no longer autoload code in lib for application. You need to explicitly require it. José Valim

  • Rails::LogSubscriber was renamed to ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber José Valim

  • config.load_(once_)paths in config/application.rb got renamed to config.autoload_(once_)paths. fxn

  • Abort generation/booting on Ruby 1.9.1. fxn

  • Made the rails command work even when you're in a subdirectory Chad Fowler

  • Removed Rails Metal [Yehuda Katz, José Valim].

  • Renamed config.cookie_secret to config.secret_token and pass it as env key. José Valim

  • Session store configuration has changed Yehuda Katz, Carl Lerche

    config.session_store :cookie_store, {:key => "..."}
    config.cookie_secret = "fdsfhisdghfidugnfdlg"
    
  • railtie_name and engine_name are deprecated. You can now add any object to the configuration object: config.your_plugin = {} José Valim

  • Added config.generators.templates to provide alternative paths for the generators to look for templates José Valim

  • Added "rake about" as a replacement for script/about DHH

  • Removed all the default commands in script/* and replaced them with script/rails and a rails command that'll act the same when run from within the app [DHH]. Example:

    ./script/generate scaffold post title:string can now be called as rails g scaffold post title:string

    Run rails --help inside an app for more help.

  • Removed config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb as all frameworks now follow the settings from it DHH

  • Set config.time_zone to UTC by default DHH

  • Added default .gitignore (this is just recognizing Git market share, don't throw a hissy if you use another SCM) DHH

  • Added cookies.permanent, cookies.signed, and cookies.permanent.signed accessor for common cookie actions [DHH]. Examples:

    cookies.permanent[:prefers_open_id] = true
    # => Set-Cookie: prefers_open_id=true; path=/; expires=Sun, 16-Dec-2029 03:24:16 GMT
    
    cookies.signed[:discount] = 45
    # => Set-Cookie: discount=BAhpMg==--2c1c6906c90a3bc4fd54a51ffb41dffa4bf6b5f7; path=/
    
    cookies.signed[:discount]
    # => 45 (if the cookie was changed, you'll get a InvalidSignature exception)
    
    cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_me] = current_user.id
    # => Set-Cookie: discount=BAhU--848956038e692d7046deab32b7131856ab20e14e; path=/; expires=Sun, 16-Dec-2029 03:24:16 GMT
    

    ...to use the signed cookies, you need to set a secret to ActionController::Base.cookie_verifier_secret (automatically done in config/initializers/cookie_verification_secret.rb for new Rails applications).

  • Added config/initializers/cookie_verification_secret.rb with an auto-generated secret for using ActionController::Base#cookies.signed DHH

  • Fixed that the debugger wouldn't go into IRB mode because of left-over ARGVs DHH

  • I18n support for plugins. #2325 Antonio Tapiador, Sven Fuchs

  • Ruby 1.9: use UTF-8 for default internal and external encodings. Jeremy Kemper

  • Added db/seeds.rb as a default file for storing seed data for the database. Can be loaded with rake db:seed (or created alongside the db with db:setup). (This is also known as the "Stop Putting Gawd Damn Seed Data In Your Migrations" feature) DHH

2.3.2 Final (March 15, 2009)

  • Remove outdated script/plugin options Pratik Naik

  • Allow metal to live in plugins #2045 Matthew Rudy

  • Added metal Josh Peek

  • Remove script/performance/request in favour of the performance integration tests. Pratik Naik

    To continue using script/performance/request, install the request_profiler plugin :

    script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/request_profiler.git
    
  • Add a rake task to apply a template to an existing application : rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb Pratik Naik

  • Add "-m/--template" option to Rails generator to apply a template to the generated application. Jeremy McAnally

    This has been extracted from rg - http://github.com/jeremymcanally/rg
    
    Example:
    
        # template.rb
    
        # Install plugins from git or svn
        plugin "will-paginate", :git => "git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git"
        plugin "old-restful-auth", :svn => "http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/"
    
        # Add gems to environment.rb
        gem "jeremymcanally-context"
        gem "bluecloth"
    
        # Vendor file. Data in a string or...
        vendor("borrowed.rb", <<CODE
          def helpful_method
            do_something_helpful_here
          end
        CODE
    
        # ...file data from block return value.
        # #initializer creates a new initializer file
        initializer("crypto.rb") do
          salt = "--#{Time.now}--#{rand}--#{srand(Time.now.to_i)}"
    
          "SPECIAL_SALT = '#{salt}'"
        end
    
    Usage:
    
      To use a template, provide a file path or URL:
    
      1. Using a local file :
    
        rails <application name> -m /path/to/my/template.rb
    
      2. Or directly from a URL :
    
        rails <application name> --template=http://gist.github.com/31208.txt
    
  • Extracted the process scripts (inspector, reaper, spawner) into the plugin irs_process_scripts David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Changed Rails.root to return a Pathname object (allows for Rails.root.join('app', 'controllers') => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers") #1482 Damian Janowski/?

  • Added view path support for engines David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added that config/routes.rb files in engine plugins are automatically loaded (and reloaded when they change in dev mode) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added app/[models|controllers|helpers] to the load path for plugins that has an app directory (go engines ;)) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Add config.preload_frameworks to load all frameworks at startup. Default to false so Rails autoloads itself as it's used. Turn this on for Passenger and JRuby. Also turned on by config.threadsafe! Jeremy Kemper

  • Add a rake task to generate dispatchers : rake rails:generate_dispatchers Pratik Naik

  • "rails " will not generate public/dispatch.cgi/fcgi/rb files by default now. Please use "--with-dispatchers" option if you need them. Yaroslav Markin, Pratik Naik

  • Added rake rails:update:application_controller to renamed application.rb to application_controller.rb -- included in rake rails:update so upgrading to 2.3 will automatically trigger it #1439 kastner

  • Added Rails.backtrace_cleaner as an accessor for the Rails::BacktraceCleaner instance used by the framework to cut down on backtrace noise and config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb to add your own (or turn them all off) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Switch from Test::Unit::TestCase to ActiveSupport::TestCase. Jeremy Kemper

  • Added config.i18n settings gatherer to config/environment, auto-loading of all locales in config/locales/*.rb,yml, and config/locales/en.yml as a sample locale David Heinemeier Hansson

  • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Renamed application.rb to application_controller.rb and removed all the special casing that was in place to support the former. You must do this rename in your own application when you upgrade to this version David Heinemeier Hansson

2.2.1 RC2 (November 14th, 2008)

  • Fixed plugin generator so that generated unit tests would subclass ActiveSupport::TestCase, also introduced a helper script to reduce the needed require statements #1137 Mathias Meyer

  • Update Prototype to 1.6.0.3 sam

2.2.0 RC1 (October 24th, 2008)

  • Fixed that sqlite would report "db/development.sqlite3 already exists" whether true or not on db:create #614 Antonio Cangiano

  • Added config.threadsafe! to toggle allow concurrency settings and disable the dependency loader Josh Peek

  • Turn cache_classes on by default Josh Peek

  • Added configurable eager load paths. Defaults to app/models, app/controllers, and app/helpers Josh Peek

  • Introduce simple internationalization support. Ruby i18n team

  • Make script/plugin install -r option work with git based plugins. #257. [Tim Pope Jakub Kuźma]. Example:

    script/plugin install git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git -r agnostic # Installs 'agnostic' branch script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git -r 'tag 1.1.4'

  • Added Rails.initialized? flag Josh Peek

  • Make rake test:uncommitted work with Git. Tim Pope

  • Added Thin support to script/server. #488 Bob Klosinski

  • Fix script/about in production mode. #370 Cheah Chu Yeow, Xavier Noria, David Krmpotic

  • Add the gem load paths before the framework is loaded, so certain gems like RedCloth and BlueCloth can be frozen.

  • Fix discrepancies with loading rails/init.rb from gems.

  • Plugins check for the gem init path (rails/init.rb) before the standard plugin init path (init.rb) Jacek Becela

  • Changed all generated tests to use the test/do declaration style David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Wrapped Rails.env in StringInquirer so you can do Rails.env.development? David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that RailsInfoController wasn't considering all requests local in development mode (Edgard Castro) #310 state:resolved

2.1.0 (May 31st, 2008)

  • script/dbconsole fires up the command-line database client. #102 Steve Purcell

  • Fix bug where plugin init.rb files from frozen gem specs weren't being run. (pjb3) #122 state:resolved

  • Made the location of the routes file configurable with config.routes_configuration_file (Scott Fleckenstein) #88

  • Rails Edge info returns the latest git commit hash Francesc Esplugas

  • Added Rails.public_path to control where HTML and assets are expected to be loaded from (defaults to Rails.root + "/public") #11581 Nick Sieger

  • rake time:zones:local finds correct base utc offset for zones in the Southern Hemisphere Geoff Buesing

  • Don't require rails/gem_builder during rails initialization, it's only needed for the gems:build task. Rick Olson

  • script/performance/profiler compatibility with the ruby-prof >= 0.5.0. Closes #9176. Jonathan del Strother

  • Flesh out rake gems:unpack to unpack all gems, and add rake gems:build for native extensions. #11513 ddollar

    rake gems:unpack # unpacks all gems rake gems:unpack GEM=mygem # unpacks only the gem 'mygem'

    rake gems:build # builds all unpacked gems rake gems:build GEM=mygem # builds only the gem 'mygem'

  • Add config.active_support for future configuration options. Also, add more new Rails 3 config settings to new_rails_defaults.rb Rick Olson

  • Add Rails.logger, Rails.root, Rails.env and Rails.cache shortcuts for RAILS_* constants Pratik Naik

  • Allow files in plugins to be reloaded like the rest of the application. Rick Olson

    Enables or disables plugin reloading.

    config.reload_plugins = true
    

    You can get around this setting per plugin. If #reload_plugins? == false (DEFAULT), add this to your plugin's init.rb to make it reloadable:

    Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete lib_path
    

    If #reload_plugins? == true, add this to your plugin's init.rb to only load it once:

    Dependencies.load_once_paths << lib_path
    
  • Small tweak to allow plugins to specify gem dependencies. Rick Olson

    # OLD open_id_authentication plugin init.rb require 'yadis' require 'openid' ActionController::Base.send :include, OpenIdAuthentication

    # NEW config.gem "ruby-openid", :lib => "openid", :version => "1.1.4" config.gem "ruby-yadis", :lib => "yadis", :version => "0.3.4"

    config.after_initialize do ActionController::Base.send :include, OpenIdAuthentication end

  • Added config.gem for specifying which gems are required by the application, as well as rake tasks for installing and freezing gems. Rick Olson

    Rails::Initializer.run do |config| config.gem "bj" config.gem "hpricot", :version => '0.6', :source => "http://code.whytheluckystiff.net" config.gem "aws-s3", :lib => "aws/s3" end

    # List required gems. rake gems

    # Install all required gems: rake gems:install

    # Unpack specified gem to vendor/gems/gem_name-x.x.x rake gems:unpack GEM=bj

  • Removed the default .htaccess configuration as there are so many good deployment options now (kept it as an example in README) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • config.time_zone accepts TZInfo::Timezone identifiers as well as Rails TimeZone identifiers Geoff Buesing

  • Rails::Initializer#initialize_time_zone raises an error if value assigned to config.time_zone is not recognized. Rake time zone tasks only require ActiveSupport instead of entire environment Geoff Buesing

  • Stop adding the antiquated test/mocks/* directories and only add them to the path if they're still there for legacy reasons David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added that gems can now be plugins if they include rails/init.rb #11444 John Barnette

  • Added Plugin#about method to programmatically access the about.yml in a plugin #10979 James Adam

    plugin = Rails::Plugin.new(path_to_my_plugin)
    plugin.about["author"] # => "James Adam"
    plugin.about["url"] # => "http://interblah.net"
    
  • Improve documentation. Ryan Bigg, Jan De Poorter, Cheah Chu Yeow, Xavier Shay, Jack Danger Canty, Emilio Tagua, Xavier Noria, Sunny Ripert

  • Added config.time_zone = 'UTC' in the default environment.rb Geoff Buesing

  • Added rake tasks time:zones:all, time:zones:us and time:zones:local for finding time zone names for config.time_zone option Geoff Buesing

  • Add config.time_zone for configuring the default Time.zone value. #10982 Geoff Buesing

  • Added support for installing plugins hosted at git repositories #11294 Jack Danger Canty

  • Fixed that script/generate would not look for plugin generators in plugin_paths #11000 glv

  • Fixed database rake tasks to work with charset/collation and show proper error messages on failure. Closes #11301 matt

  • Added a -e/--export to script/plugin install, uses svn export. #10847 jon@blankpad.net)

  • Reshuffle load order so that routes and observers are initialized after plugins and app initializers. Closes #10980 Rick Olson

  • Git support for script/generate. #10690 ssoroka

  • Update scaffold to use labels instead of bold tags. Closes #10757 zach-inglis-lt3

  • Resurrect WordNet synonym lookups. #10710 tom./, matt

  • Added config.cache_store to environment options to control the default cache store (default is FileStore if tmp/cache is present, otherwise MemoryStore is used) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added that rails:update is run when you do rails:freeze:edge to ensure you also get the latest JS and config files #10565 jeff

  • SQLite: db:drop:all doesn't fail silently if the database is already open. #10577 Cheah Chu Yeow, mrichman

  • Introduce native mongrel handler and push mutex into dispatcher. Jeremy Kemper

  • Ruby 1.9 compatibility. #1689, #10546 Cheah Chu Yeow, frederico

2.0.2 (December 16th, 2007)

  • Changed the default database from mysql to sqlite3, so now running "rails myapp" will have a config/database.yml that's setup for SQLite3 (which in OS X Leopard is installed by default, so is the gem, so everything Just Works with no database configuration at all). To get a Rails application preconfigured for MySQL, just run "rails -d mysql myapp" David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Turned on ActionView::Base.cache_template_loading by default in config/environments/production.rb to prevent file system stat calls for every template loading to see if it changed (this means that you have to restart the application to see template changes in production mode) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Introduce rake secret to output a crytographically secure secret key for use with cookie sessions #10363 revans

  • Fixed that local database creation should consider 127.0.0.1 local #9026 parcelbrat

  • Fixed that functional tests generated for scaffolds should use fixture calls instead of hard-coded IDs #10435 boone

  • Added db:migrate:redo and db:migrate:reset for rerunning existing migrations #10431, #10432 matt

  • RAILS_GEM_VERSION may be double-quoted also. #10443 James Cox

  • Update rails:freeze:gems to work with RubyGems 0.9.5. Jeremy Kemper

2.0.1 (December 7th, 2007)

  • Fixed Active Record bug

2.0.0 (December 6th, 2007)

  • The test task stops with a warning if you have pending migrations. #10377 Josh Knowles

  • Add warning to documentation about using transactional fixtures when the code under test uses transactions itself. Closes #7548 Thijs van der Vossen

  • Update Prototype to 1.6.0.1. sam

  • Update script.aculo.us to 1.8.0.1. madrobby

  • Added db:fixtures:identity as a way of locating what ID a foxy fixture was assigned #10332 John Barnette

  • Generated fixtures should not specify ids since theyre expected to be foxy fixtures #10330 John Barnette

  • Update to Prototype -r8232. sam

  • Introduce SecretKeyGenerator for more secure session secrets than CGI::Session's pseudo-random id generator. Consider extracting to Active Support later. #10286 Hongli Lai (Phusion)

  • RAILS_GEM_VERSION may be set to any valid gem version specifier. #10057 Chad Woolley, Cheah Chu Yeow

  • Load config/preinitializer.rb, if present, before loading the environment. #9943 Chad Woolley

  • FastCGI handler ignores unsupported signals like USR2 on Windows. Grzegorz Derebecki

  • Only load ActionMailer::TestCase if ActionMailer is loaded. Closes #10137 defunkt

  • Fixed that db:reset would use migrations instead of loading db/schema.rb David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Ensure the plugin loader only loads plugins once. Closes #10102 haruki_zaemon

  • Refactor Plugin Loader. Add plugin lib paths early, and add lots of tests. Closes #9795 James Adam

  • Added --skip-timestamps to generators that produce models #10036 Tim Pope

  • Update Prototype to 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us to 1.8.0. sam, madrobby

  • Added db:rollback to rollback the schema one version (or multiple as specified by STEP) Jeffrey Allan Hardy

  • Fix typo in test_helper. Closes #9925 viktor tron

  • Request profiler. Jeremy Kemper

  • config/boot.rb correctly detects RAILS_GEM_VERSION. #9834 alexch, thewoolleyman

  • Fixed incorrect migration number if script/generate executed outside of Rails root #7080 Jeremy McAnally

  • Update Prototype to 1.6.0_rc1 and script.aculo.us to 1.8.0 preview 0. sam, madrobby

  • Generated fixtures use the actual primary key instead of id. #4343 Frederick Ros, Tarmo Tänav

  • Extend the console +helper+ method to allow you to include custom helpers. e.g:

    helper :posts helper.some_method_from_posts_helper(Post.find(1))

  • db:create works with remote databases whereas db:create:all only creates databases on localhost. #9753 Trevor Wennblom

  • Removed calls to fixtures in generated tests as fixtures :all is now present by default in test_helper.rb David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Add --prefix option to script/server when using mongrel. dacat

2.0.0 Preview Release (September 29th, 2007) Includes duplicates of changes from 1.1.4 - 1.2.3

  • Fixed that installing plugins from SVN repositories that use trunk/ will work #8188 evan

  • Moved the SourceAnnotationExtractor to a separate file in case libraries try to load the rails rake tasks twice. Rick Olson

  • Moved Dispatcher to ActionController::Dispatcher. Jeremy Kemper

  • Changed the default logger from Ruby's own Logger with the clean_logger extensions to ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger for performance reasons [David Heinemeier Hansson]. (You can change it back with config.logger = Logger.new("/path/to/log", level).)

  • Added a default 422.html page to be rendered when ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid, ActiveRecord::RecordNotSaved, or ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken is raised David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added --skip-fixture option to script/generate model #6862 sandofsky

  • Print Rails version when starting console #7440 eyematz

  • Fixed the placement of fixture files for nested models when generating through script/generate model #7547 jkit

  • Added TEMPLATE option to rake doc:app to set a custom output template #7737 Jakob Skjerning

  • Added VERBOSE option to rake db:migrate to turn off output #8204 John Barnette

  • Fixed that rake doc:app should use UTF-8 #8906 farzy

  • Fixes rake annotations to search erb and builder files as well #9150 m.langenberg

  • Removed web_service generator Michael Koziarski

  • Added the :all option to config.plugins that'll include the rest of the plugins not already explicitly named #9613 [Frederick Cheung]. Example:

    # Loads :classic_pagination before all the other plugins
    config.plugins = [ :classic_pagination, :all ]
    
  • Added symbols as a legal way of specifying plugins in config.plugins #9629 tom

  • Removed deprecated task names, like clear_logs, in favor of the new namespaced style David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Support multiple config.after_initialize blocks so plugins and apps can more easily cooperate. #9582 Zach Dennis

  • Added db:drop:all to drop all databases declared in config/database.yml David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Use attribute pairs instead of the migration name to create add and remove column migrations. Closes #9166 Pratik Naik

    For example:

    ruby script/generation migration AddSomeStuffToCustomers first_name:string last_name:string

    or

    ruby script/generation migration RemoveSomeStuffFromCustomers first_name:string last_name:string

  • Add ActiveResource to Rails::Info. Closes #8741 Chris Kampmeier

  • use Gem.find_name instead of search when freezing gems. Prevent false positives for other gems with rails in the name. Closes #8729 wselman

  • Automatically generate add/remove column commands in specially named migrations like AddLocationToEvent. Closes #9006 Ryan Davis

  • Default to plural table name in Rails Generator if ActiveRecord is not present. Closes #8963 evan

  • Added rake routes for listing all the defined routes in the system. #8795 Josh Peek

  • db:create creates the database for the current environment if it's on localhost. db:create:all creates local databases for all environments. #8783 matt

  • Generators: look for generators in all gems, not just those suffixed with _generator, in the gem's generators or rails_generators directory. Allow use of the rails_generators directory instead of the standard generators directory in plugins also. #8730 Dr Nic, topfunky

  • MySQL, PostgreSQL: database.yml defaults to utf-8. #8701 matt

  • Added db:version to get the current schema number via Err The Blog

  • Added --skip-migration option to scaffold and resource generators #8656 Michael Glaesemann

  • Fix that FCGIs would leave log files open when asked to shut down by USR2. #3028 Sebastian Kanthak, Josh Peek

  • Fixed that dispatcher preparation callbacks only run once in production mode. Mock Routes.reload so that dispatcher preparation callback tests run. Rick Olson

  • Fix syntax error in dispatcher than wrecked failsafe responses. #8625 mtitorenko

  • Scaffolded validation errors set the appropriate HTTP status for XML responses. #6946, #8622 Manfred Stienstra, mmmultiworks

  • Sexy migrations for the session_migration generator. #8561 Vladislav

  • Console reload! runs to_prepare callbacks also. #8393 f.svehla

  • Generated migrations include timestamps by default. #8501 Shane Vitarana

  • Drop Action Web Service from rails:freeze:edge. Jeremy Kemper

  • Add db:create, drop, reset, charset, and collation tasks. #8448 matt

  • Scaffold generator depends on model generator instead of duplicating it. #7222 bscofield

  • Scaffold generator tests. #8443 pelle

  • Generated scaffold functional tests use assert_difference. #8421 Norbert Crombach

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.1. Sam Stephenson

  • Update to script.aculo.us 1.7.1_beta3. Thomas Fuchs

  • Generators use *.html.erb view template naming. #8278 Tim Pope

  • Updated resource_scaffold and model generators to use short-hand style migrations David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Updated initializer to only load #{RAILS_ENV}.rb once. Added deprecation warning for config.breakpoint_server. Nicholas Seckar

  • Removed breakpointer and Binding.of_caller in favor of relying on ruby-debug by Kent Sibilev since the breakpointer has been broken since Ruby 1.8.4 and will not be coming back David Heinemeier Hansson

    To use the new debugger, start your server with script/server --debugger and insert a call to 'debugger' (instead of 'breakpoint') where you want to jump into the debugger.

    BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITY NOTE: You must remove the default line 12 from config/environments/development.rb:

    config.breakpoint_server = true
    

    This configuration option is no longer available. Rails will fail to start in development mode as long as that's still present.

  • Resource scaffolding returns the created entity.to_xml. Jeremy Kemper

  • Resource scaffolding responds to new.xml. #8185 Eric Mill

  • Include Active Resource in rails:freeze:edge rake task. Thomas Fuchs

  • Include Active Resource instead of Action Web Service [David Heinemeier Hansson] You can add AWS back with this in config/environment.rb:

    config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionwebservice/lib )
    

    ...or just gem 'actionwebservice'

  • Give generate scaffold a more descriptive database message. Closes #7316 Jeremy McAnally

  • Canonicalize RAILS_ROOT by using File.expand_path on Windows, which doesn't have to worry about symlinks, and Pathname#realpath elsewhere, which respects symlinks in relative paths but is incompatible with Windows. #6755 Jeremy Kemper, trevor

  • Deprecation: remove components from controller paths. Jeremy Kemper

  • Add environment variable RAILS_DEFAULT_DATABASE, which allows the builtin default of 'mysql' to be overridden. Nicholas Seckar

  • Windows: include MinGW in RUBY_PLATFORM check. #2982 okkez000@gmail.com, Kaspar Schiess

  • Split out the basic plugin locator functionality into an abstract super class. Add a FileSystemLocator to do the job of checking the plugin_paths for plugins. Add plugin_locators configuration option which will iterate over the set of plugin locators and load each of the plugin loaders they return. Rename locater everywhere to locator. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Split plugin location and loading out of the initializer and into a new Plugin namespace, which includes Plugin::Locater and Plugin::Loader. The loader class that is used can be customized using the config.plugin_loader option. Those monkey patching the plugin loading subsystem take note, the internals changing here will likely break your modifications. The good news is that it should be substantially easier to hook into the plugin locating and loading process now. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added assumption that all plugin creators desire to be sharing individuals and release their work under the MIT license David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added source-annotations extractor tasks to rake [Jamis Buck]. This allows you to add FIXME, OPTIMIZE, and TODO comments to your source code that can then be extracted in concert with rake notes (shows all), rake notes:fixme, rake notes:optimize and rake notes:todo.

  • Added fixtures :all to test_helper.rb to assume that most people just want all their fixtures loaded all the time David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added config/initializers where all ruby files within it are automatically loaded after the Rails configuration is done, so you don't have to litter the environment.rb file with a ton of mixed stuff David Heinemeier Hansson

  • For new apps, generate a random secret for the cookie-based session store. Jeremy Kemper

  • Stop swallowing errors during rake test Michael Koziarski

  • Update Rails Initializer to use ActionController::Base#view_paths Rick Olson

  • Fix gem deprecation warnings, which also means depending on RubyGems 0.9.0+ Chad Fowler

  • Plugins may be symlinked in vendor/plugins. #4245 brandon, progrium@gmail.com

  • Resource generator depends on the model generator rather than duplicating it. #7269 bscofield

  • Add/Update usage documentation for script/destroy, resource generator and scaffold_resource generator. Closes #7092, #7271, #7267. bscofield

  • Update to script.aculo.us 1.7.0. Thomas Fuchs

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0. Sam Stephenson

  • Generator: use destination path for diff tempfiles. #7015 alfeld

  • Fixed that webrick would strip leading newlines and hang connection #4156 psross

  • Ensure plugins are in the Dependencies.load_once_paths collection by default. Rick Olson If you really want your plugins to reload, add this to the very top of init.rb:

    Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete(lib_path)
    
  • Allow config.to_prepare to work, make the dispatcher safe to 're require'. Michael Koziarski, Nicholas Seckar

  • Fix scaffold_resource generator so it respects the --pretend argument when creating the routes file. Closes #6852 fearoffish

  • Fix Webrick Daemon dispatching bug regarding a bad current working directory. Closes #4899 Rick Olson

  • Make config.plugins affect the load path and the dependencies system. Allows you to control plugin loading order, and keep disabled plugins off the load path. James Adam

  • Don't generate a components directory in new Rails apps. Jeremy Kemper

  • Fixed script/process/spawner to work properly with Mongrel including in -r (daemonize mode) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added one-letter aliases for the three default environments to script/console, so script/console p will load the production environment (t for test, d for development) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that script/server running against Mongrel should tail the proper log regardless of the environment David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update initializer to load Rails::VERSION as soon as possible. Closes #6698. Nicholas Seckar

  • Added ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections! in development mode so the database connection is not carried over from request to request. Some databases won't reread the schema if that doesn't happen (I'm looking at you SQLite), so you have to restart the server after each migration (= no fun) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Made RAILS_GEM_VERSION work for beta gems too, so specifying 1.1.6 will give you 1.1.6.4520 if available David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update to Prototype and script.aculo.us [5579]. Thomas Fuchs

  • Made script/server work with -e and -d when using Mongrel David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc2 [5550] which makes it work in Opera again Thomas Fuchs

  • Make sure that exceptions which are thrown outside of the user code try their best to be handeled in ApplicationController#rescue_action Tobias Lütke

  • Rails::VERSION::STRING should always be available without having to require 'rails/version'. #6244 fearoffish

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc2. Sam Stephenson

  • Add grep-based fallback to reaper, to work in pidless setups Jamis Buck

  • Only wrap request processing with our USR1 signal handler so FastCGI can trap it and raise an exception while waiting for connections. Idle processes exit immediately rather than waiting for another request; active processes gracefully exit when the request is finished. Jeremy Kemper

  • Alter prior change to use require_dependency instead of require_or_load. Causes ApplicationController to be reloaded again. Closes #6587. Nicholas Seckar

  • Rake: use absolute paths to load lib and vendor tasks so they may be run outside of RAILS_ROOT. #6584 jchris

  • Remove temporary crutch to help ApplicationController be unloaded. Closes #6496. Nicholas Seckar

  • scaffold_resource generator uses _path named routes and head instead of render :nothing => true. #6545 Josh Susser

  • Generator can show diff on file collision to help you decide whether to skip or overwrite. #6364 jeffw, Jeremy Kemper

  • Generated directories are recursively svn added, like mkdir -p. #6416 NeilW

  • resource and scaffold_resource generators add a restful route to config/routes.rb Jeremy Kemper

  • Revert environment changes for autoload_paths. Michael Koziarski

  • Update to latest Prototype, which doesn't serialize disabled form elements, adds clone() to arrays, empty/non-string Element.update() and adds a fixes excessive error reporting in WebKit beta versions Thomas Fuchs

  • Clean up the output of rake stats, de-emphasise components and apis, and remove the indents for tests Michael Koziarski

  • Added option to script/process/spawner of specifying the binding address #5133 Dee Zsombor

  • Update environment.rb comments to include config.autoload_paths. Closes #6478 caio

  • Update scaffold to use new form_tag block functionality. Closes #6480. Bob Silva

  • Plugin generator: check for class collisions. #4833 vinbarnes@gmail.com

  • Mailer generator: handle mailers in modules, set mime_version in unit test. Jeremy Kemper

  • Set $KCODE to 'u' by default to enable the multibyte safe String#chars proxy. Michael Koziarski

  • Added config.plugins to control which plugins are loaded #6269 [Stefan Kaes]. By default, everything in vendor/plugins will be loaded, but if you specify config.plugins, only those will be loaded. Example:

    config.plugins = %w[ routing_navigator simply_helpful ]
    
  • Clean up html on included error pages. Tim Lucas

  • Fixed default 404.html and 500.htmls to remove extreme ugliness and include human language David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update to latest Prototype and script.aculo.us trunk versions Thomas Fuchs

  • PostgreSQL: db:test:purge closes open database connections first. #6236 alex

  • Fixed test:uncommitted on Windows (backslash issue) #4999 paul@paulbutcher.com

  • Fixed migration creation to work with namespaced models, so script/generate model Gallery::Image will use create_table :gallery_images #6327 Bob Silva

  • Fixed rename_table on SQLite tables with indexes defined #5942 brandon@opensoul.org

  • Added default timeout setting of 5 seconds to SQLite3 database.yml configurations David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added generated attribute options to script/generate model, like the one found in scaffold_resource and resource [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:

    ./script/generate model post title:string created_on:date body:text published:boolean
    
  • Added script/generate resource which works just like scaffold_resource, but creates empty placeholders instead of predefined David Heinemeier Hansson

  • script/runner can run files, pass on arguments, and be used as a shebang. #6286 Tuxie, dlpond #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/my/app/script/runner # Example: just start using your models as if you are in script/console Product.find(:all).each { |product| product.check_inventory }

  • Look for rake tasks in plugin subdirs. #6259 obrie

  • Added map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' as a default route to config/routes.rb David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Updated prototype.js to 1.5.0_rc1 with latest fixes. Rick Olson

    • XPATH support
    • Make Form.getElements() return elements in the correct order
    • fix broken Form.serialize return
  • session_migration generator adds an index on updated_at. #6207 grg

  • script/server creates the tmp/pids directory. #6204 jonathan

  • Fix script/console --sandbox for internal transactions changes. #5738 Chris McGrath, charles.gerungan@gmail.com

  • Remove the uncanny default of adding all app/models/*/ directories to the load path. This change will break application which expect the current behavior. As documented in initializer.rb, the workaround is:

    config.autoload_paths += DirRAILS_ROOT + '/app/models//'*

    References #6031. Nicholas Seckar

  • Update to script.aculo.us 1.6.3 Thomas Fuchs

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc1 sam

  • Formally Deprecate the old rake tasks. Michael Koziarski

  • Thoroughly test the FCGI dispatcher. #5970 Kevin Clark

  • Remove Dir.chdir in the Webrick DispatchServlet#initialize method. Fix bad path errors when trying to load config/routes.rb. Rick Olson

  • Tighten rescue clauses. #5985 james@grayproductions.net

  • Cleaning up tests. Kevin Clark, Jeremy Kemper

  • Add Dependencies.load_once_paths. Nicholas Seckar

  • Updated to script.aculo.us 1.6.2 Thomas Fuchs

  • Assign Routing.controller_paths; fix script/about and rails info controller. Nicholas Seckar

  • Don't warn dispatcher of Reloadable deprecations. Nicholas Seckar

  • Rearrange application resetting and preparation, fix bug with leaking subclasses hash in ActiveRecord::Base Rick Olson

    ActiveRecord::Base.reset_subclasses is called before Dependencies are cleared and classes removed. ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers is called during a Dispatcher preparation callback.

  • Add missing mock directories from the autoload_paths configuration. Rick Olson

  • Nested controller scaffolding also nests the generated layout. iain d broadfoot

  • Add "require 'dispatcher'" to webrick server in the continuing quest to squash webrick weirdness. Nicholas Seckar

  • Add autoload_paths support to Initializer. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fix Dispatcher.reset_application! so that AR subclasses are removed and Observers re-initialized after Reloadable classes are removed. Closes #5743. Rick Olson

  • Clarify usage of script/plugin source. Closes #5344. James Adam

  • Add Dispatcher.to_prepare and config.to_prepare to provide a pre-request hook. Nicholas Seckar

  • Tweak the Rails load order so observers are loaded after plugins, and reloaded in development mode. Closed #5279. Rick Olson

  • Added that you can change the web server port in config/lighttpd.conf from script/server --port/-p #5465 mats@imediatec.co.uk

  • script/performance/profiler compatibility with the new ruby-prof, including an option to choose the results printer. #5679 Shugo Maeda

  • Fixed the failsafe response so it uses either the current recognized controller or ApplicationController. Rick Olson

  • Make sure script/reaper only reaps dispatcher pids by default, and not the spawner's pid. Jamis Buck

  • Fix script/plugin about so it uses about.yml and not meta.yml. James Adam

  • Dispatcher processes rescued actions with the same controller that processed the request. #4625 sd@notso.net

  • rails -d frontbase to create a new project with a frontbase database.yml. #4945 mlaster@metavillage.com

  • Ensure the logger is initialized. #5629 mike@clarkware.com

  • Added Mongrel-spawning capabilities to script/process/spawner. Mongrel will be the default choice if installed, otherwise FCGI is tried [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:

    spawner               # starts instances on 8000, 8001, and 8002 using Mongrel if available
    spawner fcgi          # starts instances on 8000, 8001, and 8002 using FCGI
    spawner mongrel -i 5  # starts instances on 8000, 8001, 8002, 8003, and 8004 using Mongrel
    spawner -p 9100 -i 10 # starts 10 instances counting from 9100 to 9109 using Mongrel if available
    spawner -p 9100 -r 5  # starts 3 instances counting from 9100 to 9102 and attempts start them every 5 seconds
    

    Also note that script/process/reaper is Mongrel capable. So the combination of spawner and reaper is a built-in alternative to something like mongrel_cluster.

  • Update scaffolding functional tests to use :id => people(:first) instead of :id => 1. #5612 evan@protest.net

  • db:test:clone should remove existing tables before reloading the schema. #5607 sveit@tradeharbor.com

  • Fixed migration generation for class names like ACLController #5197 brad@madriska.com

  • Added show_source_list and show_call_stack to breakpoints to make it easier to get context #5476 [takiuchi@drecom.co.jp]. Examples:

    irb(#<TopController:0x40822a68>):002:0> show_source_list
    0001  class TopController < ApplicationController
    0002    def show
    0003->    breakpoint
    0004    end
    0005
    0006    def index
    0007    end
    0008
    => "/path/to/rails/root/app/controllers/top_controller.rb"
    
    irb(#<TopController:0x40822a68>):004:0> show_call_stack 3
    vendor/rails/railties/lib/breakpoint.rb:536:in `breakpoint'
    vendor/rails/railties/lib/breakpoint.rb:536:in `breakpoint'
    app/controllers/top_controller.rb:3:in `show'
    => "/path/to/rails/root/app/controllers/top_controller.rb:3"
    
  • Generate scaffold layout in subdirectory appropriate to its module nesting. #5511 nils@alumni.rice.edu

  • Mongrel: script/server tails the rails log like it does with lighttpd. Prefer mongrel over lighttpd. #5541 mike@clarkware.com

  • Don't assume Active Record is available. #5497 bob@sporkmonger.com

  • Mongrel: script/server works on Win32. #5499 jeremydurham@gmail.com

  • Remove opts.on { |options[:option_name] } style hash assignment. Closes #4440. Nick Sieger

  • Mongrel support for script/server. #5475 jeremydurham@gmail.com

  • Fix script/plugin so it doesn't barf on invalid URLs Rick Olson

  • Fix plugin install bug at dir with space. (closes #5359) Yoshimasa NIWA

  • Fix bug with 'script/plugin install' so it reports unknown plugin names correctly. Rick Olson

  • Added uninstall.rb hook to plugin handling, such that plugins have a way of removing assets and other artifacts on removal #5003 takiuchi@drecom.co.jp

  • Create temporary dirs relative to RAILS_ROOT when running script/server #5014 elliot@townx.org

  • Minor tweak to dispatcher to use recognize instead of recognize!, as per the new routes. Jamis Buck

  • Make "script/plugin install" work with svn+ssh URLs. Sam Stephenson

  • Added lib/ to the directories that will get application docs generated David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Add observer generator. Closes #5167. François Beausoleil

  • Session migration generator obeys pluralize_table_names. #5145 James Adam

  • rake test:recent understands subdirectories. #2925 jerrett@bravenet.com

  • The app generator detects the XAMPP package's MySQL socket location. #3832 elliot@townx.org

  • The app generator sets a session key in application.rb so apps running on the same host may distinguish their cookies. #2967 rcoder, rails-bug@owl.me.uk

  • Distinguish the spawners for different processes David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added -n/--process to script/process/spawner name the process pid (default is dispatch) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Namespaced OrderedHash so the Rails implementation does not clash with any others. (fixes #4911) Julian Tarkhanov

  • Replace Ruby's deprecated append_features in favor of included. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added script/process/inspector to do simple process status information on Rails dispatchers keeping pid files in tmp/pids David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added pid file usage to script/process/spawner and script/process/reaper along with a directive in default config/lighttpd.conf file to record the pid. They will all save their pid file in tmp/pids David Heinemeier Hansson

1.2.3 (March 12th, 2007)

  • Ruby 1.8.6 compatibility

  • Windows: include MinGW in RUBY_PLATFORM check. #2982 okkez000@gmail.com, Kaspar Schiess

  • Stop swallowing errors during rake test Michael Koziarski

1.2.2 (February 5th, 2007)

  • Fix gem deprecation warnings, which also means depending on RubyGems 0.9.0+ Chad Fowler

  • Require the dispatcher for Rails::Configuration#to_prepare. Rick Olson

1.2.1 (January 16th, 2007)

  • Updated to Active Record 1.15.1, Action Pack 1.13.1, Action Mailer 1.3.1, Action Web Service 1.2.1

1.2.0 (January 16th, 2007)

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0. Sam Stephenson

  • Generator: use destination path for diff tempfiles. #7015 alfeld

  • Fixed that webrick would strip leading newlines and hang connection #4156 psross

  • Ensure plugins are in the Dependencies.load_once_paths collection by default. Rick Olson If you really want your plugins to reload, add this to the very top of init.rb:

    Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete(lib_path)
    
  • Fix scaffold_resource generator so it respects the --pretend argument when creating the routes file. Closes #6852 fearoffish

  • Fix Webrick Daemon dispatching bug regarding a bad current working directory. Closes #4899 Rick Olson

  • Make config.plugins affect the load path and the dependencies system. Allows you to control plugin loading order, and keep disabled plugins off the load path. James Adam

  • Don't generate a components directory in new Rails apps. Jeremy Kemper

  • Fixed script/process/spawner to work properly with Mongrel including in -r (daemonize mode) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Deprecated the name route "root" as it'll be used as a shortcut for map.connect '' in Rails 2.0 David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that script/server running against Mongrel should tail the proper log regardless of the environment David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update initializer to load Rails::VERSION as soon as possible. Closes #6698. Nicholas Seckar

  • Added ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections! in development mode so the database connection is not carried over from request to request. Some databases won't reread the schema if that doesn't happen (I'm looking at you SQLite), so you have to restart the server after each migration (= no fun) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Made RAILS_GEM_VERSION work for beta gems too, so specifying 1.1.6 will give you 1.1.6.4520 if available David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update to Prototype and script.aculo.us [5579]. Sam Stephenson, Thomas Fuchs

  • Made script/server work with -e and -d when using Mongrel David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Make sure that exceptions which are thrown outside of the user code try their best to be handeled in ApplicationController#rescue_action Tobias Lütke

  • Rails::VERSION::STRING should always be available without having to require 'rails/version'. #6244 fearoffish

  • Add grep-based fallback to reaper, to work in pidless setups Jamis Buck

  • Only wrap request processing with our USR1 signal handler so FastCGI can trap it and raise an exception while waiting for connections. Idle processes exit immediately rather than waiting for another request; active processes gracefully exit when the request is finished. Jeremy Kemper

  • Alter prior change to use require_dependency instead of require_or_load. Causes ApplicationController to be reloaded again. Closes #6587. Nicholas Seckar

  • Rake: use absolute paths to load lib and vendor tasks so they may be run outside of RAILS_ROOT. #6584 jchris

  • scaffold_resource generator uses _path named routes and head instead of render :nothing => true. #6545 Josh Susser

  • Generator can show diff on file collision to help you decide whether to skip or overwrite. #6364 jeffw, Jeremy Kemper

  • Generated directories are recursively svn added, like mkdir -p. #6416 NeilW

  • resource and scaffold_resource generators add a restful route to config/routes.rb Jeremy Kemper

  • Revert environment changes for autoload_paths. Michael Koziarski

  • Clean up the output of rake stats, de-emphasise components and apis, and remove the indents for tests Michael Koziarski

  • Added option to script/process/spawner of specifying the binding address #5133 Dee Zsombor

  • Update environment.rb comments to include config.autoload_paths. Closes #6478 caio

  • Update scaffold to use new form_tag block functionality. Closes #6480. Bob Silva

  • Plugin generator: check for class collisions. #4833 vinbarnes@gmail.com

  • Mailer generator: handle mailers in modules, set mime_version in unit test. Jeremy Kemper

  • Set $KCODE to 'u' by default to enable the multibyte safe String#chars proxy. Michael Koziarski

  • Added config.plugins to control which plugins are loaded #6269 [Stefan Kaes]. By default, everything in vendor/plugins will be loaded, but if you specify config.plugins, only those will be loaded. Example:

    config.plugins = %w[ routing_navigator simply_helpful ]
    
  • Clean up html on included error pages. Tim Lucas

  • Fixed default 404.html and 500.htmls to remove extreme ugliness and include human language David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Update to latest Prototype and script.aculo.us trunk versions Thomas Fuchs

  • PostgreSQL: db:test:purge closes open database connections first. #6236 alex

  • Fixed test:uncommitted on Windows (backslash issue) #4999 paul@paulbutcher.com

  • Fixed migration creation to work with namespaced models, so script/generate model Gallery::Image will use create_table :gallery_images #6327 Bob Silva

  • Fixed rename_table on SQLite tables with indexes defined #5942 brandon@opensoul.org

  • Added default timeout setting of 5 seconds to SQLite3 database.yml configurations David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added generated attribute options to script/generate model, like the one found in scaffold_resource and resource [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:

    ./script/generate model post title:string created_on:date body:text published:boolean
    
  • Added script/generate resource which works just like scaffold_resource, but creates empty placeholders instead of predefined David Heinemeier Hansson

  • script/runner can run files, pass on arguments, and be used as a shebang. #6286 Tuxie, dlpond #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/my/app/script/runner # Example: just start using your models as if you are in script/console Product.find(:all).each { |product| product.check_inventory }

  • Look for rake tasks in plugin subdirs. #6259 obrie

  • Added map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' as a default route to config/routes.rb David Heinemeier Hansson

  • session_migration generator adds an index on updated_at. #6207 grg

  • script/server creates the tmp/pids directory. #6204 jonathan

  • Fix script/console --sandbox for internal transactions changes. #5738 Chris McGrath, charles.gerungan@gmail.com

  • Remove the uncanny default of adding all app/models/*/ directories to the load path. This change will break application which expect the current behavior. As documented in initializer.rb, the workaround is:

    config.autoload_paths += DirRAILS_ROOT + '/app/models//'*

    References #6031. Nicholas Seckar

  • Update to script.aculo.us 1.6.3 Thomas Fuchs

  • Formally Deprecate the old rake tasks. Michael Koziarski

  • Thoroughly test the FCGI dispatcher. #5970 Kevin Clark

  • Remove Dir.chdir in the Webrick DispatchServlet#initialize method. Fix bad path errors when trying to load config/routes.rb. Rick Olson

  • Tighten rescue clauses. #5985 james@grayproductions.net

  • Cleaning up tests. Kevin Clark, Jeremy Kemper

  • Add Dependencies.load_once_paths. Nicholas Seckar

  • Assign Routing.controller_paths; fix script/about and rails info controller. Nicholas Seckar

  • Don't warn dispatcher of Reloadable deprecations. Nicholas Seckar

  • Rearrange application resetting and preparation, fix bug with leaking subclasses hash in ActiveRecord::Base Rick Olson

    ActiveRecord::Base.reset_subclasses is called before Dependencies are cleared and classes removed. ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers is called during a Dispatcher preparation callback.

  • Add missing mock directories from the autoload_paths configuration. Rick Olson

  • Nested controller scaffolding also nests the generated layout. iain d broadfoot

  • Add "require 'dispatcher'" to webrick server in the continuing quest to squash webrick weirdness. Nicholas Seckar

  • Add autoload_paths support to Initializer. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fix Dispatcher.reset_application! so that AR subclasses are removed and Observers re-initialized after Reloadable classes are removed. Closes #5743. Rick Olson

  • Clarify usage of script/plugin source. Closes #5344. James Adam

  • Add Dispatcher.to_prepare and config.to_prepare to provide a pre-request hook. Nicholas Seckar

  • Tweak the Rails load order so observers are loaded after plugins, and reloaded in development mode. Closed #5279. Rick Olson

  • Added that you can change the web server port in config/lighttpd.conf from script/server --port/-p #5465 mats@imediatec.co.uk

  • script/performance/profiler compatibility with the new ruby-prof, including an option to choose the results printer. #5679 Shugo Maeda

  • Fixed the failsafe response so it uses either the current recognized controller or ApplicationController. Rick Olson

  • Make sure script/reaper only reaps dispatcher pids by default, and not the spawner's pid. Jamis Buck

  • Fix script/plugin about so it uses about.yml and not meta.yml. James Adam

  • Dispatcher processes rescued actions with the same controller that processed the request. #4625 sd@notso.net

  • rails -d frontbase to create a new project with a frontbase database.yml. #4945 mlaster@metavillage.com

  • Ensure the logger is initialized. #5629 mike@clarkware.com

  • Added Mongrel-spawning capabilities to script/process/spawner. Mongrel will be the default choice if installed, otherwise FCGI is tried [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:

    spawner               # starts instances on 8000, 8001, and 8002 using Mongrel if available
    spawner fcgi          # starts instances on 8000, 8001, and 8002 using FCGI
    spawner mongrel -i 5  # starts instances on 8000, 8001, 8002, 8003, and 8004 using Mongrel
    spawner -p 9100 -i 10 # starts 10 instances counting from 9100 to 9109 using Mongrel if available
    spawner -p 9100 -r 5  # starts 3 instances counting from 9100 to 9102 and attempts start them every 5 seconds
    

    Also note that script/process/reaper is Mongrel capable. So the combination of spawner and reaper is a built-in alternative to something like mongrel_cluster.

  • Update scaffolding functional tests to use :id => people(:first) instead of :id => 1. #5612 evan@protest.net

  • db:test:clone should remove existing tables before reloading the schema. #5607 sveit@tradeharbor.com

  • Fixed migration generation for class names like ACLController #5197 brad@madriska.com

  • Added show_source_list and show_call_stack to breakpoints to make it easier to get context #5476 [takiuchi@drecom.co.jp]. Examples:

    irb(#<TopController:0x40822a68>):002:0> show_source_list
    0001  class TopController < ApplicationController
    0002    def show
    0003->    breakpoint
    0004    end
    0005
    0006    def index
    0007    end
    0008
    => "/path/to/rails/root/app/controllers/top_controller.rb"
    
    irb(#<TopController:0x40822a68>):004:0> show_call_stack 3
    vendor/rails/railties/lib/breakpoint.rb:536:in `breakpoint'
    vendor/rails/railties/lib/breakpoint.rb:536:in `breakpoint'
    app/controllers/top_controller.rb:3:in `show'
    => "/path/to/rails/root/app/controllers/top_controller.rb:3"
    
  • Generate scaffold layout in subdirectory appropriate to its module nesting. #5511 nils@alumni.rice.edu

  • Mongrel: script/server tails the rails log like it does with lighttpd. Prefer mongrel over lighttpd. #5541 mike@clarkware.com

  • Don't assume Active Record is available. #5497 bob@sporkmonger.com

  • Mongrel: script/server works on Win32. #5499 jeremydurham@gmail.com

  • Remove opts.on { |options[:option_name] } style hash assignment. Closes #4440. Nick Sieger

  • Mongrel support for script/server. #5475 jeremydurham@gmail.com

  • Fix script/plugin so it doesn't barf on invalid URLs Rick Olson

  • Fix plugin install bug at dir with space. (closes #5359) Yoshimasa NIWA

  • Fix bug with 'script/plugin install' so it reports unknown plugin names correctly. Rick Olson

  • Added uninstall.rb hook to plugin handling, such that plugins have a way of removing assets and other artifacts on removal #5003 takiuchi@drecom.co.jp

  • Create temporary dirs relative to RAILS_ROOT when running script/server #5014 elliot@townx.org

  • Minor tweak to dispatcher to use recognize instead of recognize!, as per the new routes. Jamis Buck

  • Make "script/plugin install" work with svn+ssh URLs. Sam Stephenson

  • Added lib/ to the directories that will get application docs generated David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Add observer generator. Closes #5167. François Beausoleil

  • Session migration generator obeys pluralize_table_names. #5145 James Adam

  • rake test:recent understands subdirectories. #2925 jerrett@bravenet.com

  • The app generator detects the XAMPP package's MySQL socket location. #3832 elliot@townx.org

  • The app generator sets a session key in application.rb so apps running on the same host may distinguish their cookies. #2967 rcoder, rails-bug@owl.me.uk

  • Distinguish the spawners for different processes David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added -n/--process to script/process/spawner name the process pid (default is dispatch) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Namespaced OrderedHash so the Rails implementation does not clash with any others. (fixes #4911) Julian Tarkhanov

  • Replace Ruby's deprecated append_features in favor of included. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added script/process/inspector to do simple process status information on Rails dispatchers keeping pid files in tmp/pids David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added pid file usage to script/process/spawner and script/process/reaper along with a directive in default config/lighttpd.conf file to record the pid. They will all save their pid file in tmp/pids David Heinemeier Hansson

1.1.6 (August 10th, 2006)

  • Additional security patch

1.1.5 (August 8th, 2006)

  • Mention in docs that config.frameworks doesn't work when getting Rails via Gems. #4857 Alisdair McDiarmid

  • Change the scaffolding layout to use yield rather than @content_for_layout. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Includes critical security patch

1.1.4 (June 29th, 2006)

  • Remove use of opts.on { |options[:name] } style hash assignment. References #4440. headius@headius.com

  • Updated to Action Pack 1.12.3, ActionWebService 1.1.4, ActionMailer 1.2.3

1.1.3 (June 27th, 2006)

  • Updated to Active Record 1.14.3, Action Pack 1.12.2, ActionWebService 1.1.3, ActionMailer 1.2.2

1.1.2 (April 9th, 2006)

  • Mention in docs that config.frameworks doesn't work when getting Rails via Gems. Closes #4857. Alisdair McDiarmid

  • Change the scaffolding layout to use yield rather than @content_for_layout. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added rake rails:update:configs to update config/boot.rb from the latest (also included in rake rails:update) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that boot.rb would set RAILS_GEM_VERSION twice, not respect an uncommented RAILS_GEM_VERSION line, and not use require_gem David Heinemeier Hansson

1.1.1 (April 6th, 2006)

  • Enhances plugin#discover allowing it to discover svn:// like URIs (closes #4565) ruben.nine@gmail.com

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc0 Sam Stephenson

  • Fixed that the -r/--ruby path option of the rails command was not being respected #4549 ryan.raaum@gmail.com

  • Added that Dispatcher exceptions should not be shown to the user unless a default log has not been configured. Instead show public/500.html David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that rake clone_structure_to_test should quit on pgsql if the dump is unsuccesful #4585 augustz@augustz.com

  • Fixed that rails --version should have the return code of 0 (success) #4560 blair@orcaware.com

  • Install alias so Rails::InfoController is accessible at /rails_info. Closes #4546. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fixed that spawner should daemonize if running in repeat mode David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added TAG option for rake rails:freeze:edge, so you can say rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-1-0 to lock to the 1.1.0 release David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Applied Prototype $() performance patches (#4465, #4477) and updated script.aculo.us Sam Stephenson, Thomas Fuchs

  • Use --simple-prompt instead of --prompt-mode simple for console compatibility with Windows/Ruby 1.8.2 #4532 starr@starrnhorne.com

  • Make Rails::VERSION implicitly loadable #4491. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fixed rake rails:freeze:gems #4518 benji@silverinsanity.com

  • Added -f/--freeze option to rails command for freezing the application to the Rails version it was generated with David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added gem binding of apps generated through the rails command to the gems of they were generated with Nicholas Seckar

  • Added expiration settings for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and images to default lighttpd.conf David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added gzip compression for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to default lighttpd.conf David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Avoid passing escapeHTML non-string in Rails' info controller Nicholas Seckar

1.1.0 (March 27th, 2006)

  • Allow db:fixtures:load to load a subset of the applications fixtures. Chad Fowler

    ex.

    rake db:fixtures:load FIXTURES=customers,plans

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_pre1 Sam Stephenson

  • Update to script.aculo.us 1.6 Thomas Fuchs

  • Add an integration_test generator Jamis Buck

  • Make all ActionView helpers available in the console from the helper method for debugging purposes. n.b.: Only an 80% solution. Some stuff won't work, most will. Marcel Molina Jr.

    ex.

    >> puts helper.options_for_select([%w(a 1), %w(b 2), %w(c 3)])
    <option value="1">a</option>
    <option value="2">b</option>
    <option value="3">c</option>
    => nil
    
  • Replaced old session rake tasks with db:sessions:create to generate a migration, and db:sessions:clear to remove sessions. Rick Olson

  • Reject Ruby 1.8.3 when loading Rails; extract version checking code. Chad Fowler

  • Remove explicit loading of RailsInfo and RailsInfoController. Nicholas Seckar

  • Move RailsInfo and RailsInfoController to Rails::Info and Rails::InfoController. Nicholas Seckar

  • Extend load path with Railties' builtin directory to make adding support code easy. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fix the rails_info controller by explicitly loading it, and marking it as not reloadable. Nicholas Seckar

  • Fixed rails:freeze:gems for Windows #3274 paul@paulbutcher.com

  • Added 'port open?' check to the spawner when running in repeat mode so we don't needlessly boot the dispatcher if the port is already in use anyway #4089 guy.naor@famundo.com

  • Add verification to generated scaffolds, don't allow get for unsafe actions Michael Koziarski

  • Don't replace application.js in public/javascripts if it already exists Cody Fauser

  • Change test:uncommitted to delay execution of svn status by using internal Rake API's. Nicholas Seckar

  • Use require_library_or_gem to load rake in commands/server.rb. Closes #4205. rob.rasmussen@gmail.com

  • Use the Rake API instead of shelling out to create the tmp directory in commands/server.rb. Chad Fowler

  • Added a backtrace to the evil WSOD (White Screen of Death). Closes #4073. TODO: Clearer exceptions Rick Olson

  • Added tracking of database and framework versions in script/about #4088 charles.gerungan@gmail.com/Rick Olson

  • Added public/javascripts/application.js as a sample since it'll automatically be included in javascript_include_tag :defaults David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added socket cleanup for lighttpd, both before and after David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added automatic creation of tmp/ when running script/server David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added silence_stream that'll work on both STDERR or STDOUT or any other stream and deprecated silence_stderr in the process David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added reload! method to script/console to reload all models and others that include Reloadable without quitting the console #4056 esad@esse.at

  • Added that rake rails:freeze:edge will now just export all the contents of the frameworks instead of just lib, so stuff like rails:update:scripts, rails:update:javascripts, and script/server on lighttpd still just works #4047 David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added fix for upload problems with lighttpd from Safari/IE to config/lighttpd.conf #3999 Thijs van der Vossen

  • Added test:uncommitted to test changes since last checkin to Subversion #4035 technomancy@gmail.com

  • Help script/about print the correct svn revision when in a non-English locale. #4026 babie7a0@ybb.ne.jp

  • Add 'app' accessor to script/console as an instance of Integration::Session Jamis Buck

  • Generator::Base#usage takes an optional message argument which defaults to Generator::Base#usage_message. Jeremy Kemper

  • Remove the extraneous AR::Base.threaded_connections setting from the webrick server. Jeremy Kemper

  • Add integration test support to app generation and testing Jamis Buck

  • Added namespaces to all tasks, so for example load_fixtures is now db:fixtures:load. All the old task names are still valid, they just point to the new namespaced names. "rake -T" will only show the namespaced ones, though David Heinemeier Hansson

  • CHANGED DEFAULT: ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format is now :ruby by default instead of :sql. This means that we'll assume you want to live in the world of db/schema.rb where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. If your schema contains un-dumpable elements, such as constraints or database-specific column types, you just got an invitation to either 1) patch the dumper to include foreign key support, 2) stop being db specific, or 3) just change the default in config/environment.rb to config.active_record.schema_format = :sql -- we even include an example for that on new Rails skeletons now. Brought to you by the federation of opinionated framework builders! David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added -r/--repeat option to script/process/spawner that offers the same loop protection as the spinner did. This deprecates the script/process/spinner, so it's no longer included in the default Rails skeleton, but still available for backwards compatibility #3461 ror@andreas-s.net

  • Added collision option to template generation in generators #3329 [anna@wota.jp]. Examples:

    m.template "stuff.config" , "config/stuff.config" , :collision => :skip
    m.template "auto-stamping", "config/generator.log", :collision => :force
    
  • Added more information to script/plugin's doings to ease debugging #3755 Rick Olson

  • Changed the default configuration for lighttpd to use tmp/sockets instead of log/ for the FastCGI sockets David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added a default configuration of the FileStore for fragment caching if tmp/cache is available, which makes action/fragment caching ready to use out of the box with no additional configuration David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Changed the default session configuration to place sessions in tmp/sessions, if that directory is available, instead of /tmp (this essentially means a goodbye to 9/10 White Screen of Death errors and should have web hosting firms around the world cheering) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added tmp/sessions, tmp/cache, and tmp/sockets as default directories in the Rails skeleton David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added that script/generate model will now automatically create a migration file for the model created. This can be turned off by calling the generator with --skip-migration David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added -d/--database option to the rails command, so you can do "rails --database=sqlite2 myapp" to start a new application preconfigured to use SQLite2 as the database. Removed the configuration examples from SQLite and PostgreSQL from the default MySQL configuration David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Allow script/server -c /path/to/lighttpd.conf Jeremy Kemper

  • Remove hardcoded path to reaper script in script/server Jeremy Kemper

  • Update script.aculo.us to V1.5.3 Thomas Fuchs

  • Added SIGTRAP signal handler to RailsFCGIHandler that'll force the process into a breakpoint after the next request. This breakpoint can then be caught with script/breakpointer and give you access to the Ruby image inside that process. Useful for debugging memory leaks among other things David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Changed default lighttpd.conf to use CWD from lighttpd 1.4.10 that allows the same configuration to be used for both detach and not. Also ensured that auto-repeaping of FCGIs only happens when lighttpd is not detached. David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added Configuration#after_initialize for registering a block which gets called after the framework is fully initialized. Useful for things like per-environment configuration of plugins. Michael Koziarski

  • Added check for RAILS_FRAMEWORK_ROOT constant that allows the Rails framework to be found in a different place than vendor/rails. Should be set in boot.rb. David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed that static requests could unlock the mutex guarding dynamic requests in the WEBrick servlet #3433 tom@craz8.com

  • Fixed documentation tasks to work with Rake 0.7.0 #3563 kazuhiko@fdiary.net

  • Update to Prototype 1.5.0_pre0 Sam Stephenson

  • Sort the list of plugins so we load in a consistent order Rick Olson

  • Show usage when script/plugin is called without arguments tom@craz8.com

  • Corrected problems with plugin loader where plugins set 'name' incorrectly #3297 anna@wota.jp

  • Make migration generator only report on exact duplicate names, not partial dupliate names. #3442 jeremy@planetargon.com Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Fix typo in mailer generator USAGE. #3458 chriztian.steinmeier@gmail.com

  • Ignore version mismatch between pg_dump and the database server. #3457 Simon Stapleton

  • Reap FCGI processes after lighttpd exits. Sam Stephenson

  • Honor ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names when creating and destroying session store table. #3204. rails@bencurtis.com, Marcel Molina Jr.

1.0.0 (December 13th, 2005)

  • Update instructions on how to find and install generators. #3172. Chad Fowler

  • Generator looks in vendor/generators also. Chad Fowler

  • Generator copies files in binary mode. #3156 minimudboy@gmail.com

  • Add builtin/ to the gemspec. Closes #3047. Nicholas Seckar, Sam Stephenson

  • Add install.rb file to plugin generation which is loaded, if it exists, when you install a plugin. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Run initialize_logger in script/lighttpd to ensure the log file exists before tailing it. Sam Stephenson

  • Make load_fixtures include csv fixtures. #3053. me@mdaines.com

  • Fix freeze_gems so that the latest rails version is dumped by default. Nicholas Seckar

  • script/plugin: handle root paths and plugin names which contain spaces. #2995 justin@aspect.net

  • Model generator: correct relative path to test_helper in unit test. Jeremy Kemper

  • Make the db_schema_dump task honor the SCHEMA environment variable if present the way db_schema_import does. #2931. Blair Zajac

  • Have the lighttpd server script report the actual ip to which the server is bound. #2903. Adam

  • Add plugin library directories to the load path after the lib directory so that libraries in the lib directory get precedence. #2910. James Adam

  • Make help for the console command more explicit about how to specify the desired environment in which to run the console. #2911. anonymous

  • PostgreSQL: the purge_test_database Rake task shouldn't explicitly specify the template0 template when creating a fresh test database. #2964 Dreamer3

  • Introducing the session_migration generator. Creates an add_session_table migration. Allows generator to specify migrations directory. #2958, #2960 Rick Olson

  • script/console uses RAILS_ENV environment variable if present. #2932 [Blair Zajac blair@orcaware.com

  • Windows: eliminate the socket option in database.yml. #2924 Wayne Vucenic waynev@gmail.com

  • Eliminate nil from newly generated logfiles. #2927 Blair Zajac blair@orcaware.com

  • Rename Version constant to VERSION. #2802 Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Eliminate Subversion dependencies in scripts/plugin. Correct install options. Introduce --force option to reinstall a plugin. Remove useless --long option for list. Use --quiet to quiet the download output and --revision to update to a specific svn revision. #2842 Chad Fowler, Rick Olson

  • SQLite: the clone_structure_to_test and purge_test_database Rake tasks should always use the test environment. #2846 Rick Olson

  • Make sure that legacy db tasks also reference :database for SQLite #2830 kazuhiko@fdiary.net

  • Pass FILE when evaluating plugins' init.rb. #2817 James Adam

  • Better svn status matching for generators. #2814 François Beausoleil francois.beausoleil@gmail.com, Blair Zajac blair@orcaware.com

  • Don't reload routes until plugins have been loaded so they have a chance to extend the routing capabilities David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Don't detach or fork for script/server tailing Nicholas Seckar

  • Changed all script/* to use #!/usr/bin/env ruby instead of hard-coded Ruby path. public/dispatcher.* still uses the hard-coded path for compatibility with web servers that don't have Ruby in path David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Force RAILS_ENV to be "test" when running tests, so that ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "production" in config/environment.rb doesn't wreck havok [David Heinemeier Hansson] #2660

  • Correct versioning in :freeze_gems Rake task. #2778 Jakob Skjerning, Jeremy Kemper

  • Added an omnipresent RailsInfoController with a properties action that delivers an HTML rendering of Rails::Info (but only when local_request? is true). Added a new default index.html which fetches this with Ajax. Sam Stephenson

0.14.3 (RC4) (November 7th, 2005)

Add 'add_new_scripts' rake task for adding new rails scripts to script/ Jamis Buck

  • Remove bogus hyphen from script/process/reaper calls to 'ps'. #2767 anonymous

  • Copy lighttpd.conf when it is first needed, instead of on app creation Jamis Buck

  • Use require_library_or_gem 'fcgi' in script/server Sam Stephenson

  • Added default lighttpd config in config/lighttpd.conf and added a default runner for lighttpd in script/server (works like script/server, but using lighttpd and FastCGI). It will use lighttpd if available, otherwise WEBrick. You can force either or using 'script/server lighttpd' or 'script/server webrick' David Heinemeier Hansson

  • New configuration option config.plugin_paths which may be a single path like the default 'vendor/plugins' or an array of paths: ['vendor/plugins', 'lib/plugins']. Jeremy Kemper

  • Plugins are discovered in nested paths, so you can organize your plugins directory as you like. Jeremy Kemper

  • Refactor load_plugin from load_plugins. #2757 alex.r.moon@gmail.com

  • Make use of silence_stderr in script/lighttpd, script/plugin, and Rails::Info Sam Stephenson

  • Enable HTTP installation of plugins when svn isn't avaialable. Closes #2661. Chad Fowler

  • Added script/about to display formatted Rails::Info output Sam Stephenson

  • Added Rails::Info to catalog assorted information about a Rails application's environment Sam Stephenson

  • Tail the logfile when running script/server lighttpd in the foreground Sam Stephenson

  • Try to guess the port number from config/lighttpd.conf in script/server lighttpd Sam Stephenson

  • Don't reap spawn-fcgi. #2727 matthew@walker.wattle.id.au

  • Reaper knows how to find processes even if the dispatch path is very long. #2711 matthew@walker.wattle.id.au

  • Make fcgi handler respond to TERM signals with an explicit exit Jamis Buck

  • Added demonstration of fixture use to the test case generated by the model generator David Heinemeier Hansson

  • If specified, pass PostgreSQL client character encoding to createdb. #2703 Kazuhiko kazuhiko@fdiary.net

  • Catch CGI multipart parse errors. Wrap dispatcher internals in a failsafe response handler. Jeremy Kemper

  • The freeze_gems Rake task accepts the VERSION environment variable to decide which version of Rails to pull into vendor/rails. Chad Fowler, Jeremy Kemper

  • Removed script.aculo.us.js, builder.js and slider.js (preperation for move of scriptaculous extensions to plugins, core scriptaculous will remain in Railties) Thomas Fuchs

  • The freeze_edge Rake task does smarter svn detection and can export a specific revision by passing the REVISION environment variable. For example: rake freeze_edge REVISION=1234. #2663 Rick Olson

  • Comment database.yml and include PostgreSQL and SQLite examples. Jeremy Kemper

  • Improve script/plugin on Windows. #2646 Chad Fowler

  • The *_plugindoc Rake tasks look deeper into the plugins' lib directories. #2652 bellis@deepthought.org

  • The PostgreSQL :db_structure_dump Rake task limits its dump to the schema search path in database.yml. Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomozov@gmail.com

  • Add task to generate rdoc for all installed plugins. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Update script.aculo.us to V1.5_rc4 Thomas Fuchs

  • Add default Mac + DarwinPorts MySQL socket locations to the app generator. Jeremy Kemper

  • Migrations may be destroyed: script/destroy migration foo. #2635 Charles M. Gerungan charles.gerungan@gmail.com, Jamis Buck, Jeremy Kemper

  • Added that plugins can carry generators and that generator stub files can be created along with new plugins using script/generate plugin --with-generator David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Removed app/apis as a default empty dir since its automatically created when using script/generate web_service David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added script/plugin to manage plugins (install, remove, list, etc) Ryan Tomayko

  • Added test_plugins task: Run the plugin tests in vendor/plugins/**/test (or specify with PLUGIN=name) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Added plugin generator to create a stub structure for a new plugin in vendor/plugins (see "script/generate plugin" for help) David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Fixed scaffold generator when started with only 1 parameter #2609 self@mattmower.com

  • rake should run functional tests even if the unit tests have failures Jim Weirich

  • Back off cleanpath to be symlink friendly. Closes #2533 Nicholas Seckar

  • Load rake task files in alphabetical order so you can build dependencies and count on them #2554 Blair Zajac

0.14.2 (RC3) (October 26th, 2005)

  • Constants set in the development/test/production environment file are set in Object

  • Scaffold generator pays attention to the controller name. #2562 self@mattmower.com

  • Include tasks from vendor/plugins/*/tasks in the Rakefile #2545 Rick Olson

0.14.1 (RC2) (October 19th, 2005)

  • Don't clean RAILS_ROOT on windows

  • Remove trailing '/' from RAILS_ROOT Nicholas Seckar

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.12.1 and Action Pack 1.10.1

0.14.0 (RC1) (October 16th, 2005)

  • Moved generator folder from RAILS_ROOT/generators to RAILS_ROOT/lib/generators Tobias Lütke

  • Fix rake dev and related commands Nicholas Seckar

  • The rails command tries to deduce your MySQL socket by running mysql_config --socket. If it fails, default to /path/to/your/mysql.sock

  • Made the rails command use the application name for database names in the tailored database.yml file. Example: "rails ~/projects/blog" will use "blog_development" instead of "rails_development". Florian Weber

  • Added Rails framework freezing tasks: freeze_gems (freeze to current gems), freeze_edge (freeze to Rails SVN trunk), unfreeze_rails (float with newest gems on system)

  • Added update_javascripts task which will fetch all the latest js files from your current rails install. Use after updating rails. Tobias Lütke

  • Added cleaning of RAILS_ROOT to useless elements such as '../non-dot-dot/'. Provides cleaner backtraces and error messages. Nicholas Seckar

  • Made the instantiated/transactional fixtures settings be controlled through Rails::Initializer. Transactional and non-instantiated fixtures are default from now on. Florian Weber

  • Support using different database adapters for development and test with ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format = :ruby Sam Stephenson

  • Make webrick work with session(:off)

  • Add --version, -v option to the Rails command. Closes #1840. stancell

  • Update Prototype to V1.4.0_pre11, script.aculo.us to V1.5_rc3 [2504] and fix the rails generator to include the new .js files Thomas Fuchs

  • Make the generator skip a file if it already exists and is identical to the new file.

  • Add experimental plugin support #2335

  • Made Rakefile aware of new .js files in script.aculo.us Thomas Fuchs

  • Make table_name and controller_name in generators honor AR::Base.pluralize_table_names. #1216 #2213 kazuhiko@fdiary.net

  • Clearly label functional and unit tests in rake stats output. #2297 lasse.koskela@gmail.com

  • Make the migration generator only check files ending in *.rb when calculating the next file name #2317 Chad Fowler

  • Added prevention of duplicate migrations from the generator #2240 François Beausoleil

  • Add db_schema_dump and db_schema_import rake tasks to work with the new ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper (for dumping a schema to and reading a schema from a ruby file).

  • Reformed all the config/environments/* files to conform to the new Rails::Configuration approach. Fully backwards compatible.

  • Added create_sessions_table, drop_sessions_table, and purge_sessions_table as rake tasks for databases that supports migrations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite) to get a table for use with CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore

  • Added dump of schema version to the db_structure_dump task for databases that support migrations #1835 Rick Olson

  • Fixed script/profiler for Ruby 1.8.2 #1863 Rick Olson

  • Fixed clone_structure_to_test task for SQLite #1864 jon@burningbush.us

  • Added -m/--mime-types option to the WEBrick server, so you can specify a Apache-style mime.types file to load #2059 ask@develooper.com

  • Added -c/--svn option to the generator that'll add new files and remove destroyed files using svn add/revert/remove as appropriate #2064 Kevin Clark

  • Added -c/--charset option to WEBrick server, so you can specify a default charset (which without changes is UTF-8) #2084 wejn@box.cz

  • Make the default stats task extendable by modifying the STATS_DIRECTORIES constant

  • Allow the selected environment to define RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER, and have Rails::Initializer use it if it exists.

  • Moved all the shared tasks from Rakefile into Rails, so that the Rakefile is empty and doesn't require updating.

  • Added Rails::Initializer and Rails::Configuration to abstract all of the common setup out of config/environment.rb (uses config/boot.rb to bootstrap the initializer and paths)

  • Fixed the scaffold generator to fail right away if the database isn't accessible instead of in mid-air #1169 Chad Fowler

  • Corrected project-local generator location in scripts.rb #2010 Michael Schuerig

  • Don't require the environment just to clear the logs #2093 Scott Barron

  • Make the default rakefile read *.rake files from config/tasks (for easy extension of the rakefile by e.g. generators)

  • Only load breakpoint in development mode and when BREAKPOINT_SERVER_PORT is defined.

  • Allow the --toggle-spin switch on process/reaper to be negated

  • Replace render_partial with render :partial in scaffold generator Nicholas Seckar

  • Added -w flag to ps in process/reaper #1934 Scott Barron

  • Allow ERb in the database.yml file (just like with fixtures), so you can pull out the database configuration in environment variables #1822 Duane Johnson

  • Added convenience controls for FCGI processes (especially when managed remotely): spinner, spawner, and reaper. They reside in script/process. More details can be had by calling them with -h/--help.

  • Added load_fixtures task to the Rakefile, which will load all the fixtures into the database for the current environment #1791 Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added an empty robots.txt to public/, so that web servers asking for it won't trigger a dynamic call, like favicon.ico #1738 Michael Schubert

  • Dropped the 'immediate close-down' of FCGI processes since it didn't work consistently and produced bad responses when it didn't. So now a TERM ensures exit after the next request (just as if the process is handling a request when it receives the signal). This means that you'll have to 'nudge' all FCGI processes with a request in order to ensure that they have all reloaded. This can be done by something like ./script/process/repear --nudge 'http://www.myapp.com' --instances 10, which will load the myapp site 10 times (and thus hit all of the 10 FCGI processes once, enough to shut down).

0.13.1 (11 July, 2005)

  • Look for app-specific generators in RAILS_ROOT/generators rather than the clunky old RAILS_ROOT/script/generators. Nobody really uses this feature except for the unit tests, so it's a negligible-impact change. If you want to work with third-party generators, drop them in ~/.rails/generators or simply install gems.

  • Fixed that each request with the WEBrick adapter would open a new database connection #1685 Sam Stephenson

  • Added support for SQL Server in the database rake tasks #1652 [Ken Barker] Note: osql and scptxfr may need to be installed on your development environment. This involves getting the .exes and a .rll (scptxfr) from a production SQL Server (not developer level SQL Server). Add their location to your Environment PATH and you are all set.

  • Added a VERSION parameter to the migrate task that allows you to do "rake migrate VERSION=34" to migrate to the 34th version traveling up or down depending on the current version

  • Extend Ruby version check to include RUBY_RELEASE_DATE >= '2005-12-25', the final Ruby 1.8.2 release #1674 court3nay

  • Improved documentation for environment config files #1625 court3nay

0.13.0 (6 July, 2005)

  • Changed the default logging level in config/environment.rb to INFO for production (so SQL statements won't be logged)

  • Added migration generator: ./script/generate migration add_system_settings

  • Added "migrate" as rake task to execute all the pending migrations from db/migrate

  • Fixed that model generator would make fixtures plural, even if ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names was false #1185 Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Added a DOCTYPE of HTML transitional to the HTML files generated by Rails #1124 Michael Koziarski

  • SIGTERM also gracefully exits dispatch.fcgi. Ignore SIGUSR1 on Windows.

  • Add the option to manually manage garbage collection in the FastCGI dispatcher. Set the number of requests between GC runs in your public/dispatch.fcgi Stefan Kaes

  • Allow dynamic application reloading for dispatch.fcgi processes by sending a SIGHUP. If the process is currently handling a request, the request will be allowed to complete first. This allows production fcgi's to be reloaded without having to restart them.

  • RailsFCGIHandler (dispatch.fcgi) no longer tries to explicitly flush $stdout (CgiProcess#out always calls flush)

  • Fixed rakefile actions against PostgreSQL when the password is all numeric #1462 Michael Schubert

  • ActionMailer::Base subclasses are reloaded with the other rails components #1262

  • Made the WEBrick adapter not use a mutex around action performance if ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency is true (default is false)

  • Fixed that mailer generator generated fixtures/plural while units expected fixtures/singular #1457 Scott Barron

  • Added a 'whiny nil' that's aim to ensure that when users pass nil to methods where that isn't appropriate, instead of NoMethodError? and the name of some method used by the framework users will see a message explaining what type of object was expected. Only active in test and development environments by default #1209 Michael Koziarski

  • Fixed the test_helper.rb to be safe for requiring controllers from multiple spots, like app/controllers/article_controller.rb and app/controllers/admin/article_controller.rb, without reloading the environment twice #1390 Nicholas Seckar

  • Fixed Webrick to escape + characters in URL's the same way that lighttpd and apache do #1397 Nicholas Seckar

  • Added -e/--environment option to script/runner #1408 François Beausoleil

  • Modernize the scaffold generator to use the simplified render and test methods and to change style from @params["id"] to params[:id]. #1367

  • Added graceful exit from pressing CTRL-C during the run of the rails command #1150 Caleb Tennis

  • Allow graceful exits for dispatch.fcgi processes by sending a SIGUSR1. If the process is currently handling a request, the request will be allowed to complete and then will terminate itself. If a request is not being handled, the process is terminated immediately (via #exit). This basically works like restart graceful on Apache. Jamis Buck

  • Made dispatch.fcgi more robust by catching fluke errors and retrying unless its a permanent condition. Jamis Buck

  • Added console --profile for profiling an IRB session #1154 Jeremy Kemper

  • Changed console_sandbox into console --sandbox #1154 Jeremy Kemper

0.12.1 (20th April, 2005)

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.10.1, Action Pack 1.8.1, Action Mailer 0.9.1, Action Web Service 0.7.1

0.12.0 (19th April, 2005)

  • Fixed that purge_test_database would use database settings from the development environment when recreating the test database #1122 rails@cogentdude.com

  • Added script/benchmarker to easily benchmark one or more statement a number of times from within the environment. Examples:

    # runs the one statement 10 times
    script/benchmarker 10 'Person.expensive_method(10)'
    
    # pits the two statements against each other with 50 runs each
    script/benchmarker 50 'Person.expensive_method(10)' 'Person.cheap_method(10)'
    
  • Added script/profiler to easily profile a single statement from within the environment. Examples:

    script/profiler 'Person.expensive_method(10)'
    script/profiler 'Person.expensive_method(10)' 10 # runs the statement 10 times
    
  • Added Rake target clear_logs that'll truncate all the *.log files in log/ to zero #1079 Lucas Carlson

  • Added lazy typing for generate, such that ./script/generate cn == ./script/generate controller and the likes #1051 k@v2studio.com

  • Fixed that ownership is brought over in pg_dump during tests for PostgreSQL #1060 pburleson

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.10.0, Action Pack 1.8.0, Action Mailer 0.9.0, Action Web Service 0.7.0, Active Support 1.0.4

0.11.1 (27th March, 2005)

  • Fixed the dispatch.fcgi use of a logger

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.9.1, Action Pack 1.7.0, Action Mailer 0.8.1, Action Web Service 0.6.2, Active Support 1.0.3

0.11.0 (22th March, 2005)

  • Removed SCRIPT_NAME from the WEBrick environment to prevent conflicts with PATH_INFO #896 Nicholas Seckar

  • Removed ?$1 from the dispatch.f/cgi redirect line to get rid of 'complete/path/from/request.html' => nil being in the @params now that the ENV["REQUEST_URI"] is used to determine the path #895 dblack/Nicholas Seckar

  • Added additional error handling to the FastCGI dispatcher to catch even errors taking down the entire process

  • Improved the generated scaffold code a lot to take advantage of recent Rails developments #882 Tobias Lütke

  • Combined the script/environment.rb used for gems and regular files version. If vendor/rails/* has all the frameworks, then files version is used, otherwise gems #878 Nicholas Seckar

  • Changed .htaccess to allow dispatch.* to be called from a sub-directory as part of the push with Action Pack to make Rails work on non-vhost setups #826 Nicholas Seckar/Tobias Lütke

  • Added script/runner which can be used to run code inside the environment by eval'ing the first parameter. Examples:

    ./script/runner 'ReminderService.deliver'
    ./script/runner 'Mailer.receive(STDIN.read)'
    

    This makes it easier to do CRON and postfix scripts without actually making a script just to trigger 1 line of code.

  • Fixed webrick_server cookie handling to allow multiple cookes to be set at once #800, #813 dave@cherryville.org

  • Fixed the Rakefile's interaction with postgresql to:

    1. Use PGPASSWORD and PGHOST in the environment to fix prompting for
       passwords when connecting to a remote db and local socket connections.
    2. Add a '-x' flag to pg_dump which stops it dumping privileges #807 [rasputnik]
    3. Quote the user name and use template0 when dumping so the functions doesn't get dumped too #855 [pburleson]
    4. Use the port if available #875 [madrobby]
    
  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.9.0, Action Pack 1.6.0, Action Mailer 0.8.0, Action Web Service 0.6.1, Active Support 1.0.2

0.10.1 (7th March, 2005)

  • Fixed rake stats to ignore editor backup files like model.rb~ #791 Sebastian Kanthak

  • Added exception shallowing if the DRb server can't be started (not worth making a fuss about to distract new users) #779 Tobias Lütke

  • Added an empty favicon.ico file to the public directory of new applications (so the logs are not spammed by its absence)

  • Fixed that scaffold generator new template should use local variable instead of instance variable #778 Dan Peterson

  • Allow unit tests to run on a remote server for PostgreSQL #781 adamm@galacticasoftware.com

  • Added web_service generator (run ./script/generate web_service for help) #776 Leon Bredt

  • Added app/apis and components to code statistics report #729 Scott Barron

  • Fixed WEBrick server to use ABSOLUTE_RAILS_ROOT instead of working_directory #687 Nicholas Seckar

  • Fixed rails_generator to be usable without RubyGems #686 Cristi BALAN

  • Fixed -h/--help for generate and destroy generators #331

  • Added begin/rescue around the FCGI dispatcher so no uncaught exceptions can bubble up to kill the process (logs to log/fastcgi.crash.log)

  • Fixed that association#count would produce invalid sql when called sequentialy #659 kanis@comcard.de

  • Fixed test/mocks/testing to the correct test/mocks/test #740

  • Added early failure if the Ruby version isn't 1.8.2 or above #735

  • Removed the obsolete -i/--index option from the WEBrick servlet #743

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.8.0, Action Pack 1.5.1, Action Mailer 0.7.1, Action Web Service 0.6.0, Active Support 1.0.1

0.10.0 (24th February, 2005)

  • Changed default IP binding for WEBrick from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 so that the server is accessible both locally and remotely #696 Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Fixed that script/server -d was broken so daemon mode couldn't be used #687 Nicholas Seckar

  • Upgraded to breakpoint 92 which fixes:

    * overload IRB.parse_opts(), fixes #443
      => breakpoints in tests work even when running them via rake
    * untaint handlers, might fix an issue discussed on the Rails ML
    * added verbose mode to breakpoint_client
    * less noise caused by breakpoint_client by default
    * ignored TerminateLineInput exception in signal handler
      => quiet exit on Ctrl-C
    
  • Added support for independent components residing in /components. Example:

    Controller: components/list/items_controller.rb
    (holds a List::ItemsController class with uses_component_template_root called)
    
    Model     : components/list/item.rb
    (namespace is still shared, so an Item model in app/models will take precedence)
    
    Views     : components/list/items/show.rhtml
    
  • Added --sandbox option to script/console that'll roll back all changes made to the database when you quit #672 Jeremy Kemper

  • Added 'recent' as a rake target that'll run tests for files that changed in the last 10 minutes #612 Jeremy Kemper

  • Changed script/console to default to development environment and drop --no-inspect #650 Jeremy Kemper

  • Added that the 'fixture :posts' syntax can be used for has_and_belongs_to_many fixtures where a model doesn't exist #572 Jeremy Kemper

  • Added that running test_units and test_functional now performs the clone_structure_to_test as well #566 rasputnik

  • Added new generator framework that informs about its doings on generation and enables updating and destruction of generated artifacts. See the new script/destroy and script/update for more details #487 Jeremy Kemper

  • Added Action Web Service as a new add-on framework for Action Pack Leon Bredt

  • Added Active Support as an independent utility and standard library extension bundle

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.7.0, Action Pack 1.5.0, Action Mailer 0.7.0

0.9.5 (January 25th, 2005)

  • Fixed dependency reloading by switching to a remove_const approach where all Active Records, Active Record Observers, and Action Controllers are reloading by undefining their classes. This enables you to remove methods in all three types and see the change reflected immediately and it fixes #539. This also means that only those three types of classes will benefit from the const_missing and reloading approach. If you want other classes (like some in lib/) to reload, you must use require_dependency to do it.

  • Added Florian Gross' latest version of Breakpointer and friends that fixes a variaty of bugs #441 Florian Gross

  • Fixed skeleton Rakefile to work with sqlite3 out of the box #521 rasputnik

  • Fixed that script/breakpointer didn't get the Ruby path rewritten as the other scripts #523 brandt@kurowski.net

  • Fixed handling of syntax errors in models that had already been succesfully required once in the current interpreter

  • Fixed that models that weren't referenced in associations weren't being reloaded in the development mode by reinstating the reload

  • Fixed that generate scaffold would produce bad functional tests

  • Fixed that FCGI can also display SyntaxErrors

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.6.0, Action Pack 1.4.0

0.9.4.1 (January 18th, 2005)

  • Added 5-second timeout to WordNet alternatives on creating reserved-word models #501 Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Fixed binding of caller #496 Alexey

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.5.1, Action Pack 1.3.1, Action Mailer 0.6.1

0.9.4 (January 17th, 2005)

  • Added that ApplicationController will catch a ControllerNotFound exception if someone attempts to access a url pointing to an unexisting controller Tobias Lütke

  • Flipped code-to-test ratio around to be more readable #468 Scott Baron

  • Fixed log file permissions to be 666 instead of 777 (so they're not executable) #471 Lucas Carlson

  • Fixed that auto reloading would some times not work or would reload the models twice #475 Tobias Lütke

  • Added rewrite rules to deal with caching to public/.htaccess

  • Added the option to specify a controller name to "generate scaffold" and made the default controller name the plural form of the model.

  • Added that rake clone_structure_to_test, db_structure_dump, and purge_test_database tasks now pick up the source database to use from RAILS_ENV instead of just forcing development #424 Tobias Lütke

  • Fixed script/console to work with Windows (that requires the use of irb.bat) #418 Chris McGrath

  • Fixed WEBrick servlet slowdown over time by restricting the load path reloading to mod_ruby

  • Removed Fancy Indexing as a default option on the WEBrick servlet as it made it harder to use various caching schemes

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.5, Action Pack 1.3, Action Mailer 0.6

0.9.3 (January 4th, 2005)

  • Added support for SQLite in the auto-dumping/importing of schemas for development -> test #416

  • Added automated rewriting of the shebang lines on installs through the gem rails command #379 Manfred Stienstra

  • Added ActionMailer::Base.deliver_method = :test to the test environment so that mail objects are available in ActionMailer::Base.deliveries for functional testing.

  • Added protection for creating a model through the generators with a name of an existing class, like Thread or Date. It'll even offer you a synonym using wordnet.princeton.edu as a look-up. No, I'm not kidding :) Florian Gross

  • Fixed dependency management to happen in a unified fashion for Active Record and Action Pack using the new Dependencies module. This means that the environment options needs to change from:

    Before in development.rb:
      ActionController::Base.reload_dependencies = true  
      ActiveRecord::Base.reload_associations     = true
    
    Now in development.rb:
      Dependencies.mechanism = :load
    
    Before in production.rb and test.rb:
      ActionController::Base.reload_dependencies = false
      ActiveRecord::Base.reload_associations     = false
    
    Now in production.rb and test.rb:
      Dependencies.mechanism = :require
    
  • Fixed problems with dependency caching and controller hierarchies on Ruby 1.8.2 in development mode #351

  • Fixed that generated action_mailers doesnt need to require the action_mailer since thats already done in the environment #382 Lucas Carlson

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 1.2.0 and Active Record 1.4.0

0.9.2

  • Fixed CTRL-C exists from the Breakpointer to be a clean affair without error dumping Kent Sibilev

  • Fixed "rake stats" to work with sub-directories in models and controllers and to report the code to test ration Scott Baron

  • Added that Active Record associations are now reloaded instead of cleared to work with the new const_missing hook in Active Record.

  • Added graceful handling of an inaccessible log file by redirecting output to STDERR with a warning #330 rainmkr

  • Added support for a -h/--help parameter in the generator #331 Ulysses

  • Fixed that File.expand_path in config/environment.rb would fail when dealing with symlinked public directories mjobin

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 1.1.0 and Active Record 1.3.0

0.9.1

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 1.0.1 for important bug fix

  • Updated gem dependencies

0.9.0

  • Renamed public/dispatch.servlet to script/server -- it wasn't really dispatching anyway as its delegating calls to public/dispatch.rb

  • Renamed AbstractApplicationController and abstract_application.rb to ApplicationController and application.rb, so that it will be possible for the framework to automatically pick up on app/views/layouts/application.rhtml and app/helpers/application.rb

  • Added script/console that makes it even easier to start an IRB session for interacting with the domain model. Run with no-args to see help.

  • Added breakpoint support through the script/breakpointer client. This means that you can break out of execution at any point in the code, investigate and change the model, AND then resume execution! Example:

    class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
      def index
        @posts = Post.find_all
        breakpoint "Breaking out from the list"
      end
    end
    

    So the controller will accept the action, run the first line, then present you with a IRB prompt in the breakpointer window. Here you can do things like:

    Executing breakpoint "Breaking out from the list" at .../webrick_server.rb:16 in 'breakpoint'

    >> @posts.inspect
    => "[#<Post:0x14a6be8 @attributes={\"title\"=>nil, \"body\"=>nil, \"id\"=>\"1\"}>,
         #<Post:0x14a6620 @attributes={\"title\"=>\"Rails you know!\", \"body\"=>\"Only ten..\", \"id\"=>\"2\"}>]"
    >> @posts.first.title = "hello from a breakpoint"
    => "hello from a breakpoint"
    

    ...and even better is that you can examine how your runtime objects actually work:

    >> f = @posts.first
    => #<Post:0x13630c4 @attributes={"title"=>nil, "body"=>nil, "id"=>"1"}>
    >> f.
    Display all 152 possibilities? (y or n)
    

    Finally, when you're ready to resume execution, you press CTRL-D

  • Changed environments to be configurable through an environment variable. By default, the environment is "development", but you can change that and set your own by configuring the Apache vhost with a string like (mod_env must be available on the server):

    SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
    

    ...if you're using WEBrick, you can pick the environment to use with the command-line parameters -e/--environment, like this:

    ruby public/dispatcher.servlet -e production
    
  • Added a new default environment called "development", which leaves the production environment to be tuned exclusively for that.

  • Added a start_server in the root of the Rails application to make it even easier to get started

  • Fixed public/.htaccess to use RewriteBase and share the same rewrite rules for all the dispatch methods

  • Fixed webrick_server to handle requests in a serialized manner (the Rails reloading infrastructure is not thread-safe)

  • Added support for controllers in directories. So you can have:

    app/controllers/account_controller.rb        # URL: /account/
    app/controllers/admin/account_controller.rb  # URL: /admin/account/
    

    NOTE: You need to update your public/.htaccess with the new rules to pick it up

  • Added reloading for associations and dependencies under cached environments like FastCGI and mod_ruby. This makes it possible to use those environments for development. This is turned on by default, but can be turned off with ActiveRecord::Base.reload_associations = false and ActionController::Base.reload_dependencies = false in production environments.

  • Added support for sub-directories in app/models. So now you can have something like Basecamp with:

    app/models/accounting
    app/models/project
    app/models/participants
    app/models/settings
    

    It's poor man's namespacing, but only for file-system organization. You still require files just like before. Nothing changes inside the files themselves.

  • Fixed a few references in the tests generated by new_mailer Jeremy Kemper

  • Added support for mocks in testing with test/mocks

  • Cleaned up the environments a bit and added global constant RAILS_ROOT

0.8.5 (9)

  • Made dev-util available to all tests, so you can insert breakpoints in any test case to get an IRB prompt at that point [Jeremy Kemper]:

    def test_complex_stuff
      @david.projects << @new_project
      breakpoint "Let's have a closer look at @david"
    end
    

    You 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 Jeremy Kemper

  • Added the new helper style to both controller and helper templates Jeremy Kemper

  • Added new_crud generator for creating a model and controller at the same time with explicit scaffolding Jeremy Kemper

  • 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

  • Upgraded to Action Mailer 0.4.0

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.9.5

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.1.0

0.8.0 (15)

  • Removed custom_table_name option for new_model now that the Inflector is as powerful as it is

  • Changed the default rake action to just do testing and separate API generation and coding statistics into a "doc" task.

  • Fixed WEBrick dispatcher to handle missing slashes in the URLs gracefully alexey

  • Added user option for all postgresql tool calls in the rakefile elvstone

  • Fixed problem with running "ruby public/dispatch.servlet" instead of "cd public; ruby dispatch.servlet" alexey

  • Fixed WEBrick server so that it no longer hardcodes the ruby interpreter used to "ruby" but will get the one used based on the Ruby runtime configuration. Marcel Molina Jr.

  • Fixed Dispatcher so it'll route requests to magic_beans to MagicBeansController/magic_beans_controller.rb Caio Chassot

  • "new_controller MagicBeans" and "new_model SubscriptionPayments" will now both behave properly as they use the new Inflector.

  • Fixed problem with MySQL foreign key constraint checks in Rake :clone_production_structure_to_test target Andreas Schwarz

  • Changed WEBrick server to by default be auto-reloading, which is slower but makes source changes instant. Class compilation cache can be turned on with "-c" or "--cache-classes".

  • Added "-b/--binding" option to WEBrick dispatcher to bind the server to a specific IP address (default: 127.0.0.1) Kevin Temp

  • dispatch.fcgi now DOESN'T set FCGI_PURE_RUBY as it was slowing things down for now reason Andreas Schwarz

  • Added new_mailer generator to work with Action Mailer

  • Included new framework: Action Mailer 0.3

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.9.0

  • Upgraded to Active Record 1.0.0

0.7.0

  • Added an optional second argument to the new_model script that allows the programmer to specify the table name, which will used to generate a custom table_name method in the model and will also be used in the creation of fixtures. Kevin Radloff

  • script/new_model now turns AccountHolder into account_holder instead of accountholder Kevin Radloff

  • Fixed the faulty handleing of static files with WEBrick Andreas Schwarz

  • Unified function_test_helper and unit_test_helper into test_helper

  • Fixed bug with the automated production => test database dropping on PostgreSQL dhawkins

  • create_fixtures in both the functional and unit test helper now turns off the log during fixture generation and can generate more than one fixture at a time. Which makes it possible for assignments like:

    @people, @projects, @project_access, @companies, @accounts =
      create_fixtures "people", "projects", "project_access", "companies", "accounts"
    
  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.8.5 (locally-scoped variables, partials, advanced send_file)

  • Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.5 (better table_name guessing, cloning, find_all_in_collection)

0.6.5

  • No longer specifies a template for rdoc, so it'll use whatever is default (you can change it in the rakefile)

  • The new_model generator will now use the same rules for plural wordings as Active Record (so Category will give categories, not categorys) Kevin Radloff

  • dispatch.fcgi now sets FCGI_PURE_RUBY to true to ensure that it's the Ruby version that's loaded danp

  • Made the GEM work with Windows

  • Fixed bug where mod_ruby would "forget" the load paths added when switching between controllers

  • PostgreSQL are now supported for the automated production => test database dropping Kevin Radloff

  • Errors thrown by the dispatcher are now properly handled in FCGI.

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.8.0 (lots and lots and lots of fixes)

  • Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.4 (a bunch of fixes)

0.6.0

  • Added AbstractionApplicationController as a superclass for all controllers generated. This class can be used to carry filters and methods that are to be shared by all. It has an accompanying ApplicationHelper that all controllers will also automatically have available.

  • Added environments that can be included from any script to get the full Active Record and Action Controller context running. This can be used by maintenance scripts or to interact with the model through IRB. Example:

    require 'config/environments/production'
    
    for account in Account.find_all
      account.recalculate_interests
    end
    

    A short migration script for an account model that had it's interest calculation strategy changed.

  • Accessing the index of a controller with "/weblog" will now redirect to "/weblog/" (only on Apache, not WEBrick)

  • Simplified the default Apache config so even remote requests are served off CGI as a default. You'll now have to do something specific to activate mod_ruby and FCGI (like using the force urls). This should make it easier for new comers that start on an external server.

  • Added more of the necessary Apache options to .htaccess to make it easier to setup

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.7.9 (lots of fixes)

  • Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.3 (lots of fixes)

0.5.7

  • Fixed bug in the WEBrick dispatcher that prevented it from getting parameters from the URL (through GET requests or otherwise)

  • Added lib in root as a place to store app specific libraries

  • Added lib and vendor to load_path, so anything store within can be loaded directly. Hence lib/redcloth.rb can be loaded with require "redcloth"

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.7.8 (lots of fixes)

  • Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.2 (minor upgrade)

0.5.6

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.7.7 (multipart form fix)

  • Updated the generated template stubs to valid XHTML files

  • Ensure that controllers generated are capitalized, so "new_controller TodoLists" gives the same as "new_controller Todolists" and "new_controller todolists".

0.5.5

  • Works on Windows out of the box! (Dropped symlinks)

  • Added webrick dispatcher: Try "ruby public/dispatch.servlet --help" Florian Gross

  • Report errors about initialization to browser (instead of attempting to use uninitialized logger)

  • Upgraded to Action Pack 0.7.6

  • Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.1

  • Added distinct 500.html instead of reusing 404.html

  • Added MIT license

0.5.0

  • First public release