rails/activemodel/CHANGELOG.md

• Validate multiple contexts on valid? and invalid? at once.

  Example:

  class Person
    include ActiveModel::Validations
  
    attr_reader :name, :title
    validates_presence_of :name, on: :create
    validates_presence_of :title, on: :update
  end
  
  person = Person.new
  person.valid?([:create, :update])    # => false
  person.errors.messages               # => {:name=>["can't be blank"], :title=>["can't be blank"]}
  

  Dmitry Polushkin

• Add case_sensitive option for confirmation validator in models.

  Akshat Sharma

• Ensure method_missing is called for methods passed to ActiveModel::Serialization#serializable_hash that don't exist.

  Jay Elaraj

• Remove ActiveModel::Serializers::Xml from core.

  Zachary Scott

• Add ActiveModel::Dirty#[attr_name]_previously_changed? and ActiveModel::Dirty#[attr_name]_previous_change to improve access to recorded changes after the model has been saved.

  It makes the dirty-attributes query methods consistent before and after saving.

  Fernando Tapia Rico

• Deprecate the :tokenizer option for validates_length_of, in favor of plain Ruby.

  Sean Griffin

• Deprecate ActiveModel::Errors#add_on_empty and ActiveModel::Errors#add_on_blank with no replacement.

  Wojciech Wnętrzak

• Deprecate ActiveModel::Errors#get, ActiveModel::Errors#set and ActiveModel::Errors#[]= methods that have inconsistent behavior.

  Wojciech Wnętrzak

• Allow symbol as values for tokenize of LengthValidator.

  Kensuke Naito

• Assigning an unknown attribute key to an ActiveModel instance during initialization will now raise ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment::UnknownAttributeError instead of NoMethodError.

  Example:

  User.new(foo: 'some value')
  # => ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute 'foo' for User.
  

  Eugene Gilburg

• Extracted ActiveRecord::AttributeAssignment to ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment allowing to use it for any object as an includable module.

  Example:

  class Cat
    include ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment
    attr_accessor :name, :status
  end
  
  cat = Cat.new
  cat.assign_attributes(name: "Gorby", status: "yawning")
  cat.name   # => 'Gorby'
  cat.status # => 'yawning'
  cat.assign_attributes(status: "sleeping")
  cat.name   # => 'Gorby'
  cat.status # => 'sleeping'
  

  Bogdan Gusiev

• Add ActiveModel::Errors#details

  To be able to return type of used validator, one can now call details on errors instance.

  Example:

  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    validates :name, presence: true
  end
  
  user = User.new; user.valid?; user.errors.details
  => {name: [{error: :blank}]}
  

  Wojciech Wnętrzak

• Change validates_acceptance_of to accept true by default.

  The default for validates_acceptance_of is now "1" and true. In the past, only "1" was the default and you were required to add accept: true.

• Remove deprecated ActiveModel::Dirty#reset_#{attribute} and ActiveModel::Dirty#reset_changes.

  Rafael Mendonça França

• Change the way in which callback chains can be halted.

  The preferred method to halt a callback chain from now on is to explicitly throw(:abort). In the past, returning false in an Active Model before_ callback had the side effect of halting the callback chain. This is not recommended anymore and, depending on the value of the ActiveSupport.halt_callback_chains_on_return_false option, will either not work at all or display a deprecation warning.

Please check 4-2-stable for previous changes.