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 [DHH]

5 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/railties/CHANGELOG b/railties/CHANGELOG
index ae20cb50da..e6b90198ab 100644
--- a/railties/CHANGELOG
+++ b/railties/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+*2.3.0/3.0*
+
+* 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 [DHH]
+
+
 *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]
diff --git a/railties/Rakefile b/railties/Rakefile
index 1bc59ac0b0..c9541b0292 100644
--- a/railties/Rakefile
+++ b/railties/Rakefile
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ task :copy_html_files do
 end
 
 task :copy_application do
-  cp "helpers/application.rb", "#{PKG_DESTINATION}/app/controllers/application.rb"
+  cp "helpers/application_controller.rb", "#{PKG_DESTINATION}/app/controllers/application_controller.rb"
   cp "helpers/application_helper.rb", "#{PKG_DESTINATION}/app/helpers/application_helper.rb"
 end
 
diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.txt
index 2cba53b94c..8f1fae5007 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.txt
+++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.txt
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ With those declarations, the +inventory+ layout would be used only for the +inde
 
 Layouts are shared downwards in the hierarchy, and more specific layouts always override more general ones. For example:
 
-+application.rb+:
++application_controller.rb+:
 
 [source, ruby]
 -------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/railties/helpers/application.rb b/railties/helpers/application_controller.rb
index 0a3ed822a4..0a3ed822a4 100644
--- a/railties/helpers/application.rb
+++ b/railties/helpers/application_controller.rb
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/applications/app/app_generator.rb b/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/applications/app/app_generator.rb
index 32c320385d..8c9bc63fc6 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/applications/app/app_generator.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/applications/app/app_generator.rb
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ class AppGenerator < Rails::Generator::Base
       m.file "README",         "README"
 
       # Application
-      m.template "helpers/application.rb",        "app/controllers/application.rb", :assigns => { :app_name => @app_name, :app_secret => md5.hexdigest }
+      m.template "helpers/application_controller.rb", "app/controllers/application_controller.rb", :assigns => { 
+        :app_name => @app_name, :app_secret => md5.hexdigest }
       m.template "helpers/application_helper.rb", "app/helpers/application_helper.rb"
       m.template "helpers/test_helper.rb",        "test/test_helper.rb"
       m.template "helpers/performance_test.rb",   "test/performance/browsing_test.rb"