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diff --git a/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md b/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md index 696493a3cf..e936644daf 100644 --- a/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md +++ b/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON http://guides.rubyonrails.org.** +**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON https://guides.rubyonrails.org.** Ruby on Rails 3.0 Release Notes =============================== @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Even if you don't give a hoot about any of our internal cleanups, Rails 3.0 is g On top of all that, we've tried our best to deprecate the old APIs with nice warnings. That means that you can move your existing application to Rails 3 without immediately rewriting all your old code to the latest best practices. -These release notes cover the major upgrades, but don't include every little bug fix and change. Rails 3.0 consists of almost 4,000 commits by more than 250 authors! If you want to see everything, check out the [list of commits](http://github.com/rails/rails/commits/3-0-stable) in the main Rails repository on GitHub. +These release notes cover the major upgrades, but don't include every little bug fix and change. Rails 3.0 consists of almost 4,000 commits by more than 250 authors! If you want to see everything, check out the [list of commits](https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/3-0-stable) in the main Rails repository on GitHub. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ If you're upgrading an existing application, it's a great idea to have good test Rails 3.0 requires Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. Support for all of the previous Ruby versions has been dropped officially and you should upgrade as early as possible. Rails 3.0 is also compatible with Ruby 1.9.2. -TIP: Note that Ruby 1.8.7 p248 and p249 have marshaling bugs that crash Rails 3.0. Ruby Enterprise Edition have these fixed since release 1.8.7-2010.02 though. On the 1.9 front, Ruby 1.9.1 is not usable because it outright segfaults on Rails 3.0, so if you want to use Rails 3 with 1.9.x jump on 1.9.2 for smooth sailing. +TIP: Note that Ruby 1.8.7 p248 and p249 have marshalling bugs that crash Rails 3.0. Ruby Enterprise Edition have these fixed since release 1.8.7-2010.02 though. On the 1.9 front, Ruby 1.9.1 is not usable because it outright segfaults on Rails 3.0, so if you want to use Rails 3 with 1.9.x jump on 1.9.2 for smooth sailing. ### Rails Application object @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The `config.gem` method is gone and has been replaced by using `bundler` and a ` ### Upgrade Process -To help with the upgrade process, a plugin named [Rails Upgrade](http://github.com/rails/rails_upgrade) has been created to automate part of it. +To help with the upgrade process, a plugin named [Rails Upgrade](https://github.com/rails/rails_upgrade) has been created to automate part of it. Simply install the plugin, then run `rake rails:upgrade:check` to check your app for pieces that need to be updated (with links to information on how to update them). It also offers a task to generate a `Gemfile` based on your current `config.gem` calls and a task to generate a new routes file from your current one. To get the plugin, simply run the following: @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ $ cd myapp ### Vendoring Gems -Rails now uses a `Gemfile` in the application root to determine the gems you require for your application to start. This `Gemfile` is processed by the [Bundler](http://github.com/carlhuda/bundler,) which then installs all your dependencies. It can even install all the dependencies locally to your application so that it doesn't depend on the system gems. +Rails now uses a `Gemfile` in the application root to determine the gems you require for your application to start. This `Gemfile` is processed by the [Bundler](https://github.com/bundler/bundler) which then installs all your dependencies. It can even install all the dependencies locally to your application so that it doesn't depend on the system gems. -More information: - [bundler homepage](http://bundler.io/) +More information: - [bundler homepage](https://bundler.io/) ### Living on the Edge @@ -138,14 +138,14 @@ More Information: - [Rails Edge Architecture](http://yehudakatz.com/2009/06/11/r ### Arel Integration -[Arel](http://github.com/brynary/arel) (or Active Relation) has been taken on as the underpinnings of Active Record and is now required for Rails. Arel provides an SQL abstraction that simplifies out Active Record and provides the underpinnings for the relation functionality in Active Record. +[Arel](https://github.com/brynary/arel) (or Active Relation) has been taken on as the underpinnings of Active Record and is now required for Rails. Arel provides an SQL abstraction that simplifies out Active Record and provides the underpinnings for the relation functionality in Active Record. More information: - [Why I wrote Arel](https://web.archive.org/web/20120718093140/http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-wrote-arel/) ### Mail Extraction -Action Mailer ever since its beginnings has had monkey patches, pre parsers and even delivery and receiver agents, all in addition to having TMail vendored in the source tree. Version 3 changes that with all email message related functionality abstracted out to the [Mail](http://github.com/mikel/mail) gem. This again reduces code duplication and helps create definable boundaries between Action Mailer and the email parser. +Action Mailer ever since its beginnings has had monkey patches, pre parsers and even delivery and receiver agents, all in addition to having TMail vendored in the source tree. Version 3 changes that with all email message related functionality abstracted out to the [Mail](https://github.com/mikel/mail) gem. This again reduces code duplication and helps create definable boundaries between Action Mailer and the email parser. More information: - [New Action Mailer API in Rails 3](http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/26/new-actionmailer-api-in-rails-3) @@ -153,15 +153,15 @@ More information: - [New Action Mailer API in Rails 3](http://lindsaar.net/2010/ Documentation ------------- -The documentation in the Rails tree is being updated with all the API changes, additionally, the [Rails Edge Guides](http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/) are being updated one by one to reflect the changes in Rails 3.0. The guides at [guides.rubyonrails.org](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) however will continue to contain only the stable version of Rails (at this point, version 2.3.5, until 3.0 is released). +The documentation in the Rails tree is being updated with all the API changes, additionally, the [Rails Edge Guides](https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/) are being updated one by one to reflect the changes in Rails 3.0. The guides at [guides.rubyonrails.org](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/) however will continue to contain only the stable version of Rails (at this point, version 2.3.5, until 3.0 is released). -More Information: - [Rails Documentation Projects](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/1/15/rails-documentation-projects.) +More Information: - [Rails Documentation Projects](https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/1/15/rails-documentation-projects) Internationalization -------------------- -A large amount of work has been done with I18n support in Rails 3, including the latest [I18n](http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n) gem supplying many speed improvements. +A large amount of work has been done with I18n support in Rails 3, including the latest [I18n](https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n) gem supplying many speed improvements. * I18n for any object - I18n behavior can be added to any object by including `ActiveModel::Translation` and `ActiveModel::Validations`. There is also an `errors.messages` fallback for translations. * Attributes can have default translations. @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ More Information: - [Rails 3 I18n changes](http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010 Railties -------- -With the decoupling of the main Rails frameworks, Railties got a huge overhaul so as to make linking up frameworks, engines or plugins as painless and extensible as possible: +With the decoupling of the main Rails frameworks, Railties got a huge overhaul so as to make linking up frameworks, engines, or plugins as painless and extensible as possible: * Each application now has its own name space, application is started with `YourAppName.boot` for example, makes interacting with other applications a lot easier. * Anything under `Rails.root/app` is now added to the load path, so you can make `app/observers/user_observer.rb` and Rails will load it without any modifications. @@ -213,8 +213,7 @@ Railties now deprecates: More information: * [Discovering Rails 3 generators](http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/01/discovering-rails-3-generators) -* [Making Generators for Rails 3 with Thor](http://caffeinedd.com/guides/331-making-generators-for-rails-3-with-thor) -* [The Rails Module (in Rails 3)](http://litanyagainstfear.com/blog/2010/02/03/the-rails-module/) +* [The Rails Module (in Rails 3)](http://quaran.to/blog/2010/02/03/the-rails-module/) Action Pack ----------- @@ -250,8 +249,8 @@ Deprecations: More Information: -* [Render Options in Rails 3](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/render-options-in-rails-3/) -* [Three reasons to love ActionController::Responder](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/8/31/three-reasons-love-responder) +* [Render Options in Rails 3](https://blog.engineyard.com/2010/render-options-in-rails-3) +* [Three reasons to love ActionController::Responder](https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/8/31/three-reasons-love-responder) ### Action Dispatch @@ -310,7 +309,7 @@ More Information: Major re-write was done in the Action View helpers, implementing Unobtrusive JavaScript (UJS) hooks and removing the old inline AJAX commands. This enables Rails to use any compliant UJS driver to implement the UJS hooks in the helpers. -What this means is that all previous `remote_<method>` helpers have been removed from Rails core and put into the [Prototype Legacy Helper](http://github.com/rails/prototype_legacy_helper). To get UJS hooks into your HTML, you now pass `:remote => true` instead. For example: +What this means is that all previous `remote_<method>` helpers have been removed from Rails core and put into the [Prototype Legacy Helper](https://github.com/rails/prototype_legacy_helper). To get UJS hooks into your HTML, you now pass `:remote => true` instead. For example: ```ruby form_for @post, :remote => true @@ -423,7 +422,7 @@ More Information: Active Record ------------- -Active Record received a lot of attention in Rails 3.0, including abstraction into Active Model, a full update to the Query interface using Arel, validation updates and many enhancements and fixes. All of the Rails 2.x API will be usable through a compatibility layer that will be supported until version 3.1. +Active Record received a lot of attention in Rails 3.0, including abstraction into Active Model, a full update to the Query interface using Arel, validation updates, and many enhancements and fixes. All of the Rails 2.x API will be usable through a compatibility layer that will be supported until version 3.1. ### Query Interface @@ -576,7 +575,7 @@ The following methods have been removed because they are no longer used in the f Action Mailer ------------- -Action Mailer has been given a new API with TMail being replaced out with the new [Mail](http://github.com/mikel/mail) as the email library. Action Mailer itself has been given an almost complete re-write with pretty much every line of code touched. The result is that Action Mailer now simply inherits from Abstract Controller and wraps the Mail gem in a Rails DSL. This reduces the amount of code and duplication of other libraries in Action Mailer considerably. +Action Mailer has been given a new API with TMail being replaced out with the new [Mail](https://github.com/mikel/mail) as the email library. Action Mailer itself has been given an almost complete re-write with pretty much every line of code touched. The result is that Action Mailer now simply inherits from Abstract Controller and wraps the Mail gem in a Rails DSL. This reduces the amount of code and duplication of other libraries in Action Mailer considerably. * All mailers are now in `app/mailers` by default. * Can now send email using new API with three methods: `attachments`, `headers` and `mail`. |