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| author | Sergey Parizhskiy <parizhskiy@gmail.com> | 2011-11-28 17:33:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Sergey Parizhskiy <parizhskiy@gmail.com> | 2011-11-28 17:33:23 +0200 |
| commit | e2e2d6298ebd9c67d0dc14c1e3481a59a4edf5d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 83297628700ed0dc8ac8bdfb60aae8645a517c32 /railties/guides | |
| parent | 493cf44682c19bd69eb2463d260c3bf29c7a23d7 (diff) | |
| parent | 6d05c793cafe79860bcbb469d6c46c83c531ab34 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb index 1e1e4b9a99..7fd6b4f516 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html> <head> <title>Blog</title> - <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> + <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %> <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> <%= csrf_meta_tags %> </head> diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb index e914b5a80e..e16da30f72 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/application.rb @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ module Blog # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file. config.filter_parameters += [:password] + # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the database. + # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper, + # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types + # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql + # Enable the asset pipeline config.assets.enabled = true diff --git a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb index 833241ace3..08697cbbc9 100644 --- a/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb +++ b/railties/guides/code/getting_started/config/environments/test.rb @@ -29,11 +29,6 @@ Blog::Application.configure do # ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array. config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test - # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the test database. - # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper, - # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types - # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql - # Print deprecation notices to the stderr config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile index ad5b848d2c..26c95be031 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile @@ -362,21 +362,14 @@ When using named routes you only need to supply the +:host+: Email clients have no web context and so paths have no base URL to form complete web addresses. Thus, when using named routes only the "_url" variant makes sense. -It is also possible to set a default host that will be used in all mailers by setting the +:host+ option in the +ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options+ hash as follows: +It is also possible to set a default host that will be used in all mailers by setting the <tt>:host</tt> option as a configuration option in <tt>config/application.rb</tt>: <ruby> -class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base - default_url_options[:host] = "example.com" - - def welcome_email(user) - @user = user - @url = user_url(@user) - mail(:to => user.email, - :subject => "Welcome to My Awesome Site") - end -end +config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "example.com" } </ruby> +If you use this setting, you should pass the <tt>:only_path => false</tt> option when using +url_for+. This will ensure that absolute URLs are generated because the +url_for+ view helper will, by default, generate relative URLs when a <tt>:host</tt> option isn't explicitly provided. + h4. Sending Multipart Emails Action Mailer will automatically send multipart emails if you have different templates for the same action. So, for our UserMailer example, if you have +welcome_email.text.erb+ and +welcome_email.html.erb+ in +app/views/user_mailer+, Action Mailer will automatically send a multipart email with the HTML and text versions setup as different parts. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index ad12dca7e8..c4724f182e 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -1287,6 +1287,7 @@ User.where(:id => 1).joins(:posts).explain may yield <plain> +EXPLAIN for: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` INNER JOIN `posts` ON `posts`.`user_id` = `users`.`id` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1 <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> @@ -1302,6 +1303,7 @@ Active Record performs a pretty printing that emulates the one of the database shells. So, the same query running with the PostgreSQL adapter would yield instead <plain> +EXPLAIN for: SELECT "users".* FROM "users" INNER JOIN "posts" ON "posts"."user_id" = "users"."id" WHERE "users"."id" = 1 QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.00..37.24 rows=8 width=0) @@ -1324,12 +1326,15 @@ User.where(:id => 1).includes(:posts).explain yields <plain> +EXPLAIN for: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 1 <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> | 1 | SIMPLE | users | const | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | const | 1 | | <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>-------<plus>---------------<plus>---------<plus>---------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>-------<plus> 1 row in set (0.00 sec) + +EXPLAIN for: SELECT `posts`.* FROM `posts` WHERE `posts`.`user_id` IN (1) <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>---------------<plus>------<plus>---------<plus>------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | <plus>----<plus>-------------<plus>-------<plus>------<plus>---------------<plus>------<plus>---------<plus>------<plus>------<plus>-------------<plus> @@ -1339,3 +1344,14 @@ yields </plain> under MySQL. + +h4. Interpreting EXPLAIN + +Interpretation of the output of EXPLAIN is beyond the scope of this guide. The +following pointers may be helpful: + +* SQLite3: "EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN":http://www.sqlite.org/eqp.html + +* MySQL: "EXPLAIN Output Format":http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/explain-output.html + +* PostgreSQL: "Using EXPLAIN":http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/using-explain.html diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index ff6c5f967f..c1046a3b63 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -440,14 +440,16 @@ NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb+. h4. +in?+ -The predicate +in?+ tests if an object is included in another object. An +ArgumentError+ exception will be raised if the argument passed does not respond to +include?+. +The predicate +in?+ tests if an object is included in another object or a list of objects. An +ArgumentError+ exception will be raised if a single argument is passed and it does not respond to +include?+. Examples of +in?+: <ruby> +1.in?(1,2) # => true 1.in?([1,2]) # => true "lo".in?("hello") # => true 25.in?(30..50) # => false +1.in?(1) # => ArgumentError </ruby> NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/object/inclusion.rb+. @@ -571,7 +573,7 @@ NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/module/attr_accessor_with_default.rb+. h5. Internal Attributes -When you are defining an attribute in a class that is meant to be subclassed name collisions are a risk. That's remarkably important for libraries. +When you are defining an attribute in a class that is meant to be subclassed, name collisions are a risk. That's remarkably important for libraries. Active Support defines the macros +attr_internal_reader+, +attr_internal_writer+, and +attr_internal_accessor+. They behave like their Ruby built-in +attr_*+ counterparts, except they name the underlying instance variable in a way that makes collisions less likely. @@ -3039,12 +3041,16 @@ Active Support defines these methods as well for Ruby 1.8. h6. +beginning_of_week+, +end_of_week+ -The methods +beginning_of_week+ and +end_of_week+ return the dates for the beginning and end of week, assuming weeks start on Monday: +The methods +beginning_of_week+ and +end_of_week+ return the dates for the +beginning and end of the week, respectively. Weeks are assumed to start on +Monday, but that can be changed passing an argument, see examples: <ruby> -d = Date.new(2010, 5, 8) # => Sat, 08 May 2010 -d.beginning_of_week # => Mon, 03 May 2010 -d.end_of_week # => Sun, 09 May 2010 +d = Date.new(2010, 5, 8) # => Sat, 08 May 2010 +d.beginning_of_week # => Mon, 03 May 2010 +d.beginning_of_week(:sunday) # => Sun, 02 May 2010 +d.end_of_week # => Sun, 09 May 2010 +d.end_of_week(:sunday) # => Sat, 08 May 2010 </ruby> +beginning_of_week+ is aliased to +monday+ and +at_beginning_of_week+. +end_of_week+ is aliased to +sunday+ and +at_end_of_week+. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile index 6ff5e87b6d..3681501293 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ location ~ ^/assets/ { } </plain> -When files are precompiled, Sprockets also creates a "gzipped":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) version of your assets. Web servers are typically configured to use a moderate compression ratio as a compromise, but since precompilation happens once Sprockets uses the maximum compression ratio, thus reducing the size of the data transfer to the minimum. On the other hand, web servers can be configured to serve compressed content directly from disk, rather than deflating non-compressed files themselves. +When files are precompiled, Sprockets also creates a "gzipped":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip (.gz) version of your assets. Web servers are typically configured to use a moderate compression ratio as a compromise, but since precompilation happens once, Sprockets uses the maximum compression ratio, thus reducing the size of the data transfer to the minimum. On the other hand, web servers can be configured to serve compressed content directly from disk, rather than deflating non-compressed files themselves. Nginx is able to do this automatically enabling +gzip_static+: diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile index cd6e7d116e..d91011c370 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ NOTE. The +config.asset_path+ configuration is ignored if the asset pipeline is * +config.log_level+ defines the verbosity of the Rails logger. This option defaults to +:debug+ for all modes except production, where it defaults to +:info+. +* +config.log_tags+ accepts a list of methods that respond to +request+ object. 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. + * +config.logger+ accepts a logger conforming to the interface of Log4r or the default Ruby +Logger+ class. Defaults to an instance of +ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger+, with auto flushing off in production mode. * +config.middleware+ allows you to configure the application's middleware. This is covered in depth in the "Configuring Middleware":#configuring-middleware section below. @@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ Every Rails application comes with a standard set of middleware which it uses in * +Rack::Runtime+ sets an +X-Runtime+ header, containing the time (in seconds) taken to execute the request. * +Rails::Rack::Logger+ notifies the logs that the request has began. After request is complete, flushes all the logs. * +ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions+ rescues any exception returned by the application and renders nice exception pages if the request is local or if +config.consider_all_requests_local+ is set to +true+. If +config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions+ is set to +false+, exceptions will be raised regardless. +* +ActionDispatch::RequestId+ makes a unique X-Request-Id header available to the response and enables the +ActionDispatch::Request#uuid+ method. * +ActionDispatch::RemoteIp+ checks for IP spoofing attacks. Configurable with the +config.action_dispatch.ip_spoofing_check+ and +config.action_dispatch.trusted_proxies+ settings. * +Rack::Sendfile+ intercepts responses whose body is being served from a file and replaces it with a server specific X-Sendfile header. Configurable with +config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header+. * +ActionDispatch::Callbacks+ runs the prepare callbacks before serving the request. @@ -263,6 +266,8 @@ h4. Configuring Active Record * +config.active_record.whitelist_attributes+ will create an empty whitelist of attributes available for mass-assignment security for all models in your app. +* +config.active_record.identity_map+ controls whether the identity map is enabled, and is false by default. + The MySQL adapter adds one additional configuration option: * +ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter.emulate_booleans+ controls whether Active Record will consider all +tinyint(1)+ columns in a MySQL database to be booleans and is true by default. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile b/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile index 1cd70404a3..37ead2bff2 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.textile @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ TIP: You may want to "put your git branch name in your shell prompt":http://qugs h3. Helping to Resolve Existing Issues -As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the "Everyone's Issues":https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open list in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: +As a next step beyond reporting issues, you can help the core team resolve existing issues. If you check the "Everyone's Issues":https://github.com/rails/rails/issues list in GitHub Issues, you'll find lots of issues already requiring attention. What can you do for these? Quite a bit, actually: h4. Verifying Bug Reports diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile index fde83ae730..fe43c9db36 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ the following: $ rails --version </shell> -If it says something like "Rails 3.1.1" you are ready to continue. +If it says something like "Rails 3.1.3" you are ready to continue. h4. Creating the Blog Application @@ -450,6 +450,8 @@ start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running: $ rails server </shell> +TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and the absence of a runtime will give you an +execjs+ error. Usually Mac OS X and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. +therubyracer+ and +therubyrhino+ are the commonly used runtimes for Ruby and JRuby respectively. You can also investigate a list of runtimes at "ExecJS":https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs. + This will fire up an instance of the WEBrick web server by default (Rails can also use several other web servers). To see your application in action, open a browser window and navigate to "http://localhost:3000":http://localhost:3000. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile index 2d4cc13571..e9477e84cf 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ end Now, when you call the +books_path+ method you should get +"/en/books"+ (for the default locale). An URL like +http://localhost:3001/nl/books+ should load the Netherlands locale, then, and following calls to +books_path+ should return +"/nl/books"+ (because the locale changed). -If you don't want to force the use of a locale in your routes you can use an optional path scope (donated by the use brackets) like so: +If you don't want to force the use of a locale in your routes you can use an optional path scope (denoted by the parentheses) like so: <ruby> # config/routes.rb diff --git a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile index 036b356a37..5ae9cf0f2b 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ As of Rails 3, +script/server+ has become +rails server+. This was done to centr h4. +bin/rails+ -The actual +rails+ command is kept in _bin/rails_ at the and goes like this: +The actual +rails+ command is kept in _bin/rails_: <ruby> #!/usr/bin/env ruby @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ rescue LoadError end </ruby> -This file will attempt to load +rails/cli+ and if it cannot find it then add the +railties/lib+ path to the load path (+$:+) and will then try to require it again. +This file will attempt to load +rails/cli+. If it cannot find it then +railties/lib+ is added to the load path (+$:+) before retrying. h4. +railties/lib/rails/cli.rb+ @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ else end </ruby> -The +rbconfig+ file here is out of Ruby's standard library and provides us with the +RbConfig+ class which contains useful information dependent on how Ruby was compiled. We'll see this in use in +railties/lib/rails/script_rails_loader+. +The +rbconfig+ file from the Ruby standard library provides us with the +RbConfig+ class which contains detailed information about the Ruby environment, including how Ruby was compiled. We can see this in use in +railties/lib/rails/script_rails_loader+. <ruby> require 'pathname' @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ module Rails end </ruby> -The +rails/script_rails_loader+ file uses +RbConfig::Config+ to gather up the +bin_dir+ and +ruby_install_name+ values for the configuration which will result in a path such as +/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby+, which is the default path on Mac OS X. If you're running Windows the path may be something such as +C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby+. Anyway, the path on your system may be different, but the point of this is that it will point at the known ruby executable location for your install. The +RbConfig::CONFIG["EXEEXT"]+ will suffix this path with ".exe" if the script is running on Windows. This constant is used later on in +exec_script_rails!+. As for the +SCRIPT_RAILS+ constant, we'll see that when we get to the +in_rails_application?+ method. +The +rails/script_rails_loader+ file uses +RbConfig::Config+ to obtain the +bin_dir+ and +ruby_install_name+ values for the configuration which together form the path to the Ruby interpreter. The +RbConfig::CONFIG["EXEEXT"]+ will suffix this path with ".exe" if the script is running on Windows. This constant is used later on in +exec_script_rails!+. As for the +SCRIPT_RAILS+ constant, we'll see that when we get to the +in_rails_application?+ method. Back in +rails/cli+, the next line is this: @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Back in +rails/cli+, the next line is this: Rails::ScriptRailsLoader.exec_script_rails! </ruby> -This method is defined in +rails/script_rails_loader+ like this: +This method is defined in +rails/script_rails_loader+: <ruby> def self.exec_script_rails! @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ rescue SystemCallError end </ruby> -This method will first check if the current working directory (+cwd+) is a Rails application or is a subdirectory of one. The way to determine this is defined in the +in_rails_application?+ method like this: +This method will first check if the current working directory (+cwd+) is a Rails application or a subdirectory of one. This is determined by the +in_rails_application?+ method: <ruby> def self.in_rails_application? @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def self.in_rails_application? end </ruby> -The +SCRIPT_RAILS+ constant defined earlier is used here, with +File.exists?+ checking for its presence in the current directory. If this method returns +false+, then +in_rails_application_subdirectory?+ will be used: +The +SCRIPT_RAILS+ constant defined earlier is used here, with +File.exists?+ checking for its presence in the current directory. If this method returns +false+ then +in_rails_application_subdirectory?+ will be used: <ruby> def self.in_rails_application_subdirectory?(path = Pathname.new(Dir.pwd)) @@ -112,17 +112,17 @@ def self.in_rails_application_subdirectory?(path = Pathname.new(Dir.pwd)) end </ruby> -This climbs the directory tree until it reaches a path which contains a +script/rails+ file. If a directory is reached which contains this file then this line will run: +This climbs the directory tree until it reaches a path which contains a +script/rails+ file. If a directory containing this file is reached then this line will run: <ruby> exec RUBY, SCRIPT_RAILS, *ARGV if in_rails_application? </ruby> -This is effectively the same as doing +ruby script/rails [arguments]+. Where +[arguments]+ at this point in time is simply "server". +This is effectively the same as running +ruby script/rails [arguments]+, where +[arguments]+ at this point in time is simply "server". h4. +script/rails+ -This file looks like this: +This file is as follows: <ruby> APP_PATH = File.expand_path('../../config/application', __FILE__) @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ require File.expand_path('../../config/boot', __FILE__) require 'rails/commands' </ruby> -The +APP_PATH+ constant here will be used later in +rails/commands+. The +config/boot+ file that +script/rails+ references is the +config/boot.rb+ file in our application which is responsible for loading Bundler and setting it up. +The +APP_PATH+ constant will be used later in +rails/commands+. The +config/boot+ file referenced here is the +config/boot.rb+ file in our application which is responsible for loading Bundler and setting it up. h4. +config/boot.rb+ diff --git a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile index 23e36b39f9..c63f2aa119 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ In many ways this is exactly what it is. This file is created by inspecting the There is however a trade-off: +db/schema.rb+ cannot express database specific items such as foreign key constraints, triggers, or stored procedures. While in a migration you can execute custom SQL statements, the schema dumper cannot reconstitute those statements from the database. If you are using features like this, then you should set the schema format to +:sql+. -Instead of using Active Record's schema dumper, the database's structure will be dumped using a tool specific to the database (via the +db:structure:dump+ Rake task) into +db/#{Rails.env}_structure.sql+. For example, for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, the +pg_dump+ utility is used. For MySQL, this file will contain the output of +SHOW CREATE TABLE+ for the various tables. Loading these schemas is simply a question of executing the SQL statements they contain. By definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's structure. Using the +:sql+ schema format will, however, prevent loading the schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it. +Instead of using Active Record's schema dumper, the database's structure will be dumped using a tool specific to the database (via the +db:structure:dump+ Rake task) into +db/structure.sql+. For example, for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, the +pg_dump+ utility is used. For MySQL, this file will contain the output of +SHOW CREATE TABLE+ for the various tables. Loading these schemas is simply a question of executing the SQL statements they contain. By definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's structure. Using the +:sql+ schema format will, however, prevent loading the schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it. h4. Schema Dumps and Source Control @@ -670,4 +670,4 @@ The Active Record way claims that intelligence belongs in your models, not in th Validations such as +validates :foreign_key, :uniqueness => true+ are one way in which models can enforce data integrity. The +:dependent+ option on associations allows models to automatically destroy child objects when the parent is destroyed. Like anything which operates at the application level, these cannot guarantee referential integrity and so some people augment them with foreign key constraints. -Although Active Record does not provide any tools for working directly with such features, the +execute+ method can be used to execute arbitrary SQL. There are also a number of plugins such as "foreign_key_migrations":https://github.com/harukizaemon/redhillonrails/tree/master/foreign_key_migrations/ which add foreign key support to Active Record (including support for dumping foreign keys in +db/schema.rb+). +Although Active Record does not provide any tools for working directly with such features, the +execute+ method can be used to execute arbitrary SQL. You could also use some plugin like "foreigner":https://github.com/matthuhiggins/foreigner which add foreign key support to Active Record (including support for dumping foreign keys in +db/schema.rb+). diff --git a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile index 2341a3522c..5dbbe2c0f0 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ class UserControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase assert_difference 'ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size', +1 do post :invite_friend, :email => 'friend@example.com' end - invite_email = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.first + invite_email = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last assert_equal "You have been invited by me@example.com", invite_email.subject assert_equal 'friend@example.com', invite_email.to[0] |