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diff --git a/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md b/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md index 0a62f34371..06761b67bb 100644 --- a/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md +++ b/guides/source/2_3_release_notes.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Ruby on Rails 2.3 Release Notes =============================== -Rails 2.3 delivers a variety of new and improved features, including pervasive Rack integration, refreshed support for Rails Engines, nested transactions for Active Record, dynamic and default scopes, unified rendering, more efficient routing, application templates, and quiet backtraces. This list covers the major upgrades, but doesn't include every little bug fix and change. If you want to see everything, check out the [list of commits](http://github.com/rails/rails/commits/2-3-stable) in the main Rails repository on GitHub or review the `CHANGELOG` files for the individual Rails components. +Rails 2.3 delivers a variety of new and improved features, including pervasive Rack integration, refreshed support for Rails Engines, nested transactions for Active Record, dynamic and default scopes, unified rendering, more efficient routing, application templates, and quiet backtraces. This list covers the major upgrades, but doesn't include every little bug fix and change. If you want to see everything, check out the [list of commits](https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/2-3-stable) in the main Rails repository on GitHub or review the `CHANGELOG` files for the individual Rails components. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ Order.scoped_by_customer_id(12).scoped_by_status("open") There's nothing to define to use dynamic scopes: they just work. * Lead Contributor: [Yaroslav Markin](http://evilmartians.com/) -* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: Dynamic Scope Methods](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/12/29/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-dynamic-scope-methods.) +* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: Dynamic Scope Methods](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/12/29/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-dynamic-scope-methods) ### Default Scopes Rails 2.3 will introduce the notion of _default scopes_ similar to named scopes, but applying to all named scopes or find methods within the model. For example, you can write `default_scope :order => 'name ASC'` and any time you retrieve records from that model they'll come out sorted by name (unless you override the option, of course). * Lead Contributor: Paweł Kondzior -* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: Default Scoping](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/18/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-default-scoping) +* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: Default Scoping](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/18/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-default-scoping) ### Batch Processing @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Note that you should only use this method for batch processing: for small number * More Information (at that point the convenience method was called just `each`): * [Rails 2.3: Batch Finding](http://afreshcup.com/2009/02/23/rails-23-batch-finding/) - * [What's New in Edge Rails: Batched Find](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/23/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-batched-find) + * [What's New in Edge Rails: Batched Find](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/23/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-batched-find) ### Multiple Conditions for Callbacks @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ developers = Developer.find(:all, :group => "salary", :having => "sum(salary) > 10000", :select => "salary") ``` -* Lead Contributor: [Emilio Tagua](http://github.com/miloops) +* Lead Contributor: [Emilio Tagua](https://github.com/miloops) ### Reconnecting MySQL Connections @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ If you're one of the people who has always been bothered by the special-case nam * More Information: * [The Death of Application.rb](http://afreshcup.com/2008/11/17/rails-2x-the-death-of-applicationrb/) - * [What's New in Edge Rails: Application.rb Duality is no More](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-application-rb-duality-is-no-more) + * [What's New in Edge Rails: Application.rb Duality is no More](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-application-rb-duality-is-no-more) ### HTTP Digest Authentication Support @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ end ``` * Lead Contributor: [Gregg Kellogg](http://www.kellogg-assoc.com/) -* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: HTTP Digest Authentication](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/1/30/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-http-digest-authentication) +* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: HTTP Digest Authentication](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/1/30/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-http-digest-authentication) ### More Efficient Routing @@ -377,8 +377,8 @@ You can write this view in Rails 2.3: * Lead Contributor: [Eloy Duran](http://superalloy.nl/) * More Information: * [Nested Model Forms](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/1/26/nested-model-forms) - * [complex-form-examples](http://github.com/alloy/complex-form-examples) - * [What's New in Edge Rails: Nested Object Forms](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-attributes) + * [complex-form-examples](https://github.com/alloy/complex-form-examples) + * [What's New in Edge Rails: Nested Object Forms](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-attributes) ### Smart Rendering of Partials @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ render @article render @articles ``` -* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: render Stops Being High-Maintenance](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/20/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-render-stops-being-high-maintenance) +* More Information: [What's New in Edge Rails: render Stops Being High-Maintenance](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/20/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-render-stops-being-high-maintenance) ### Prompts for Date Select Helpers @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ You're likely familiar with Rails' practice of adding timestamps to static asset Asset hosts get more flexible in edge Rails with the ability to declare an asset host as a specific object that responds to a call. This allows you to implement any complex logic you need in your asset hosting. -* More Information: [asset-hosting-with-minimum-ssl](http://github.com/dhh/asset-hosting-with-minimum-ssl/tree/master) +* More Information: [asset-hosting-with-minimum-ssl](https://github.com/dhh/asset-hosting-with-minimum-ssl/tree/master) ### grouped_options_for_select Helper Method @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ Active Support has a few interesting changes, including the introduction of `Obj A lot of folks have adopted the notion of using try() to attempt operations on objects. It's especially helpful in views where you can avoid nil-checking by writing code like `<%= @person.try(:name) %>`. Well, now it's baked right into Rails. As implemented in Rails, it raises `NoMethodError` on private methods and always returns `nil` if the object is nil. -* More Information: [try()](http://ozmm.org/posts/try.html.) +* More Information: [try()](http://ozmm.org/posts/try.html) ### Object#tap Backport @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ If you look up the spec on the "json.org" site, you'll discover that all keys in ### Other Active Support Changes * You can use `Enumerable#none?` to check that none of the elements match the supplied block. -* If you're using Active Support [delegates](http://afreshcup.com/2008/10/19/coming-in-rails-22-delegate-prefixes/,) the new `:allow_nil` option lets you return `nil` instead of raising an exception when the target object is nil. +* If you're using Active Support [delegates](http://afreshcup.com/2008/10/19/coming-in-rails-22-delegate-prefixes/) the new `:allow_nil` option lets you return `nil` instead of raising an exception when the target object is nil. * `ActiveSupport::OrderedHash`: now implements `each_key` and `each_value`. * `ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor` provides a simple way to encrypt information for storage in an untrusted location (like cookies). * Active Support's `from_xml` no longer depends on XmlSimple. Instead, Rails now includes its own XmlMini implementation, with just the functionality that it requires. This lets Rails dispense with the bundled copy of XmlSimple that it's been carting around. @@ -555,11 +555,11 @@ Rails Metal is a new mechanism that provides superfast endpoints inside of your * [Introducing Rails Metal](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/17/introducing-rails-metal) * [Rails Metal: a micro-framework with the power of Rails](http://soylentfoo.jnewland.com/articles/2008/12/16/rails-metal-a-micro-framework-with-the-power-of-rails-m) * [Metal: Super-fast Endpoints within your Rails Apps](http://www.railsinside.com/deployment/180-metal-super-fast-endpoints-within-your-rails-apps.html) - * [What's New in Edge Rails: Rails Metal](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/12/18/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-rails-metal) + * [What's New in Edge Rails: Rails Metal](http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/12/18/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-rails-metal) ### Application Templates -Rails 2.3 incorporates Jeremy McAnally's [rg](http://github.com/jeremymcanally/rg/tree/master) application generator. What this means is that we now have template-based application generation built right into Rails; if you have a set of plugins you include in every application (among many other use cases), you can just set up a template once and use it over and over again when you run the `rails` command. There's also a rake task to apply a template to an existing application: +Rails 2.3 incorporates Jeremy McAnally's [rg](https://github.com/jm/rg) application generator. What this means is that we now have template-based application generation built right into Rails; if you have a set of plugins you include in every application (among many other use cases), you can just set up a template once and use it over and over again when you run the `rails` command. There's also a rake task to apply a template to an existing application: ``` rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ This will layer the changes from the template on top of whatever code the projec ### Quieter Backtraces -Building on Thoughtbot's [Quiet Backtrace](https://github.com/thoughtbot/quietbacktrace) plugin, which allows you to selectively remove lines from `Test::Unit` backtraces, Rails 2.3 implements `ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner` and `Rails::BacktraceCleaner` in core. This supports both filters (to perform regex-based substitutions on backtrace lines) and silencers (to remove backtrace lines entirely). Rails automatically adds silencers to get rid of the most common noise in a new application, and builds a `config/backtrace_silencers.rb` file to hold your own additions. This feature also enables prettier printing from any gem in the backtrace. +Building on thoughtbot's [Quiet Backtrace](https://github.com/thoughtbot/quietbacktrace) plugin, which allows you to selectively remove lines from `Test::Unit` backtraces, Rails 2.3 implements `ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner` and `Rails::BacktraceCleaner` in core. This supports both filters (to perform regex-based substitutions on backtrace lines) and silencers (to remove backtrace lines entirely). Rails automatically adds silencers to get rid of the most common noise in a new application, and builds a `config/backtrace_silencers.rb` file to hold your own additions. This feature also enables prettier printing from any gem in the backtrace. ### Faster Boot Time in Development Mode with Lazy Loading/Autoload @@ -605,8 +605,8 @@ Deprecated A few pieces of older code are deprecated in this release: -* If you're one of the (fairly rare) Rails developers who deploys in a fashion that depends on the inspector, reaper, and spawner scripts, you'll need to know that those scripts are no longer included in core Rails. If you need them, you'll be able to pick up copies via the [irs_process_scripts](http://github.com/rails/irs_process_scripts/tree) plugin. -* `render_component` goes from "deprecated" to "nonexistent" in Rails 2.3. If you still need it, you can install the [render_component plugin](http://github.com/rails/render_component/tree/master). +* If you're one of the (fairly rare) Rails developers who deploys in a fashion that depends on the inspector, reaper, and spawner scripts, you'll need to know that those scripts are no longer included in core Rails. If you need them, you'll be able to pick up copies via the [irs_process_scripts](https://github.com/rails/irs_process_scripts/tree) plugin. +* `render_component` goes from "deprecated" to "nonexistent" in Rails 2.3. If you still need it, you can install the [render_component plugin](https://github.com/rails/render_component/tree/master). * Support for Rails components has been removed. * If you were one of the people who got used to running `script/performance/request` to look at performance based on integration tests, you need to learn a new trick: that script has been removed from core Rails now. There's a new request_profiler plugin that you can install to get the exact same functionality back. * `ActionController::Base#session_enabled?` is deprecated because sessions are lazy-loaded now. @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ A few pieces of older code are deprecated in this release: * Some integration test helpers have been removed. `response.headers["Status"]` and `headers["Status"]` will no longer return anything. Rack does not allow "Status" in its return headers. However you can still use the `status` and `status_message` helpers. `response.headers["cookie"]` and `headers["cookie"]` will no longer return any CGI cookies. You can inspect `headers["Set-Cookie"]` to see the raw cookie header or use the `cookies` helper to get a hash of the cookies sent to the client. * `formatted_polymorphic_url` is deprecated. Use `polymorphic_url` with `:format` instead. * The `:http_only` option in `ActionController::Response#set_cookie` has been renamed to `:httponly`. -* The `:connector` and `:skip_last_comma` options of `to_sentence` have been replaced by `:words_connnector`, `:two_words_connector`, and `:last_word_connector` options. +* The `:connector` and `:skip_last_comma` options of `to_sentence` have been replaced by `:words_connector`, `:two_words_connector`, and `:last_word_connector` options. * Posting a multipart form with an empty `file_field` control used to submit an empty string to the controller. Now it submits a nil, due to differences between Rack's multipart parser and the old Rails one. Credits |