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diff --git a/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md b/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md index 8bd2074e82..a98f7be067 100644 --- a/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md +++ b/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md @@ -49,13 +49,38 @@ client-side JavaScript framework and a server-side Ruby framework. You have access to your full domain model written with Active Record or your ORM of choice. -See the [Active Cable Overview](action_cable_overview.html) guide for more +See the [Action Cable Overview](action_cable_overview.html) guide for more information. -### Rails API -[Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19832) +### API Applications -ToDo... +Rails can now be used to create slimmed down API only applications. +This is useful for creating and serving APIs similar to [Twitter](https://dev.twitter.com) or [GitHub](http://developer.github.com) API, +that can be used to serve public facing, as well as, for custom applications. + +You can generate a new api Rails app using: + +```bash +$ rails new my_api --api +``` + +This will do three main things: + +- Configure your application to start with a more limited set of middleware + than normal. Specifically, it will not include any middleware primarily useful + for browser applications (like cookies support) by default. +- Make `ApplicationController` inherit from `ActionController::API` instead of + `ActionController::Base`. As with middleware, this will leave out any Action + Controller modules that provide functionalities primarily used by browser + applications. +- Configure the generators to skip generating views, helpers and assets when + you generate a new resource. + +The application provides a base for APIs, +that can then be [configured to pull in functionality](api_app.html) as suitable for the application's needs. + +See the [Using Rails for API-only Applications](api_app.html) guide for more +information. ### Active Record attributes API @@ -65,9 +90,10 @@ It also changes the behavior of values passed to `ActiveRecord::Base.where`, whi without having to rely on implementation details or monkey patching. Some things that you can achieve with this: -* The type detected by Active Record can be overridden. -* A default can also be provided. -* Attributes do not need to be backed by a database column. + +- The type detected by Active Record can be overridden. +- A default can also be provided. +- Attributes do not need to be backed by a database column. ```ruby @@ -99,14 +125,14 @@ store_listing.price_in_cents # => 10 StoreListing.new.my_string # => "new default" StoreListing.new.my_default_proc # => 2015-05-30 11:04:48 -0600 model = StoreListing.new(field_without_db_column: ["1", "2", "3"]) -model.attributes #=> {field_without_db_column: [1, 2, 3]} +model.attributes # => {field_without_db_column: [1, 2, 3]} ``` **Creating Custom Types:** You can define your own custom types, as long as they respond -to the methods defined on the value type. The method +deserialize+ or -+cast+ will be called on your type object, with raw input from the +to the methods defined on the value type. The method `deserialize` or +`cast` will be called on your type object, with raw input from the database or from your controllers. This is useful, for example, when doing custom conversion, like Money data. @@ -114,7 +140,7 @@ like Money data. When `ActiveRecord::Base.where` is called, it will use the type defined by the model class to convert the value to SQL, -calling +serialize+ on your type object. +calling `serialize` on your type object. This gives the objects ability to specify, how to convert values when performing SQL queries. @@ -129,10 +155,23 @@ for a detailed write up. ### Test Runner -[Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19216) -ToDo... +A new test runner has been introduced to enhance the capabilities of running tests from Rails. +To use this test runner simply type `bin/rails test`. +Test Runner is inspired from `RSpec`, `minitest-reporters`, `maxitest` and others. +It includes some of these notable advancements: + +- Run a single test using line number of test. +- Run multiple tests pinpointing to line number of tests. +- Improved failure messages, which also add ease of re-running failed tests. +- Fail fast using `-f` option, to stop tests immediately on occurrence of failure, +instead of waiting for the suite to complete. +- Defer test output until the end of a full test run using the `-d` option. +- Complete exception backtrace output using `-b` option. +- Integration with `Minitest` to allow options like `-s` for test seed data, +`-n` for running specific test by name, `-v` for better verbose output and so forth. +- Colored test output. Railties -------- @@ -167,13 +206,13 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][railties] for detailed changes. * Deprecated `config.static_cache_control` in favor of `config.public_file_server.headers`. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22173)) + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19135)) * Deprecated `config.serve_static_files` in favor of `config.public_file_server.enabled`. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22173)) * Deprecated the tasks in the `rails` task namespace in favor of the `app` namespace. - (e.g. `rails:update` and `rails:template` tasks is renamed to `app:update` and `app:template`.) + (e.g. `rails:update` and `rails:template` tasks are renamed to `app:update` and `app:template`.) ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23439)) ### Notable changes @@ -219,7 +258,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][railties] for detailed changes. Spring to watch additional common files. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b04d07337fd7bc17e88500e9d6bcd361885a45f8)) - * Added `--skip-action-mailer` to skip Action Mailer while generating new app. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18288)) @@ -229,6 +267,9 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][railties] for detailed changes. * Changed `_form.html.erb` generated by scaffold generator to use local variables. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/13434)) +* Disabled autoloading of classes in production environment. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a71350cae0082193ad8c66d65ab62e8bb0b7853b)) + Action Pack ----------- @@ -320,6 +361,15 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-pack] for detailed changes. * Deprecated `:controller` and `:action` path parameters. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23980)) +* Deprecated env method on controller instances. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/05934d24aff62d66fc62621aa38dae6456e276be)) + +* `ActionDispatch::ParamsParser` is deprecated and was removed from the + middleware stack. To configure the parameter parsers use + `ActionDispatch::Request.parameter_parsers=`. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/38d2bf5fd1f3e014f2397898d371c339baa627b1), + [commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5ed38014811d4ce6d6f957510b9153938370173b)) + ### Notable changes * Added `ActionController::Renderer` to render arbitrary templates @@ -367,7 +417,7 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-pack] for detailed changes. `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` instead. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4414c5d1795e815b102571425974a8b1d46d932d)) -* Rails will only generate "weak", instead of strong ETags. +* Rails generates weak ETags by default. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/17573)) * Controller actions without an explicit `render` call and with no @@ -382,11 +432,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-pack] for detailed changes. * Added request encoding and response parsing to integration tests. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21671)) -* Update default rendering policies when the controller action did - not explicitly indicate a response. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23827)) - - * Add `ActionController#helpers` to get access to the view context at the controller level. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/24866)) @@ -394,6 +439,24 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-pack] for detailed changes. * Discarded flash messages get removed before storing into session. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18721)) +* Added support for passing collection of records to `fresh_when` and + `stale?`. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18374)) + +* `ActionController::Live` became an `ActiveSupport::Concern`. That + means it can't be just included in other modules without extending + them with `ActiveSupport::Concern` or `ActionController::Live` + won't take effect in production. Some people may be using another + module to include some special `Warden`/`Devise` authentication + failure handling code as well since the middleware can't catch a + `:warden` thrown by a spawned thread which is the case when using + `ActionController::Live`. + ([More details in this issue](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/25581)) + +* Introduce `Response#strong_etag=` and `#weak_etag=` and analogous + options for `fresh_when` and `stale?`. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/24387)) + Action View ------------- @@ -413,13 +476,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-view] for detailed changes. supported by I18n. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/20019)) -### Deprecations - -* Deprecated `datetime_field` and `datetime_field_tag` helpers. - Datetime input type was removed from HTML specification. - One can use `datetime_local_field` and `datetime_local_field_tag` instead. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/24385)) - ### Notable Changes * Changed the default template handler from `ERB` to `Raw`. @@ -439,6 +495,10 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-view] for detailed changes. * Partial template name no longer has to be a valid Ruby identifier. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/da9038e)) +* The `datetime_tag` helper now generates an input tag with the type of + `datetime-local`. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/25469)) + Action Mailer ------------- @@ -524,8 +584,10 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. [activemodel-serializers-xml](https://github.com/rails/activemodel-serializers-xml) gem. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21161)) -* Removed support for the legacy `mysql` database adapter from core. It will - live on in a separate gem for now, but most users should just use `mysql2`. +* Removed support for the legacy `mysql` database adapter from core. Most users should + be able to use `mysql2`. It will be converted to a separate gem when when we find someone + to maintain it. ([Pull Request 1](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22642), + [Pull Request 2](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22715)) * Removed support for the `protected_attributes` gem. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f4fbc0301021f13ae05c8e941c8efc4ae351fdf9)) @@ -536,6 +598,9 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. * Removed support for `activerecord-deprecated_finders` gem. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/78dab2a8569408658542e462a957ea5a35aa4679)) +* Removed `ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column::TRUE_VALUES` constant. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a502703c3d2151d4d3b421b29fefdac5ad05df61)) + ### Deprecations * Deprecated passing a class as a value in a query. Users should pass strings @@ -597,6 +662,14 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. `use_transactional_tests` for more clarity. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19282)) +* Deprecated passing a column to `ActiveRecord::Connection#quote`. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7bb620869725ad6de603f6a5393ee17df13aa96c)) + +* Added an option `end` to `find_in_batches` that complements the `start` + parameter to specify where to stop batch processing. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/12257)) + + ### Notable changes * Added a `foreign_key` option to `references` while creating the table. @@ -631,9 +704,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. operator to combine WHERE or HAVING clauses. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b0b37942d729b6bdcd2e3178eda7fa1de203b3d0)) -* Added `:time` option added for `#touch`. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18956)) - * Added `ActiveRecord::Base.suppress` to prevent the receiver from being saved during the given block. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18910)) @@ -719,6 +789,29 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. * Added `:index_errors` option to add indexes to errors of nested attributes. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19686)) +* Added support for bidirectional destroy dependencies. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18548)) + +* Added support for `after_commit` callbacks in transactional tests. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18458)) + +* Added `foreign_key_exists?` method to see if a foreign key exists on a table + or not. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18662)) + +* Added `:time` option to `touch` method to touch records with different time + than the current time. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18956)) + +* Change transaction callbacks to not swallow errors. + Before this change any errors raised inside a transaction callback + were getting rescued and printed in the logs, unless you used + the (newly deprecated) `raise_in_transactional_callbacks = true` option. + + Now these errors are not rescued anymore and just bubble up, matching the + behavior of other callbacks. + ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/07d3d402341e81ada0214f2cb2be1da69eadfe72)) + Active Model ------------ @@ -772,6 +865,9 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-model] for detailed changes. * Validate multiple contexts on `valid?` and `invalid?` at once. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21069)) +* Change `validates_acceptance_of` to accept `true` as default value + apart from `1`. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18439)) Active Job ----------- @@ -873,8 +969,10 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. `ActiveSupport::Cache::MemCachedStore#escape_key`, and `ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore#key_file_path`. Use `normalize_key` instead. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22215), + [commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a8f773b0)) - Deprecated `ActiveSupport::Cache::LocaleCache#set_cache_value` in favor of `write_cache_value`. +* Deprecated `ActiveSupport::Cache::LocaleCache#set_cache_value` in favor of `write_cache_value`. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22215)) * Deprecated passing arguments to `assert_nothing_raised`. @@ -905,7 +1003,8 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. * Added `#on_weekend?`, `#on_weekday?`, `#next_weekday`, `#prev_weekday` methods to `Date`, `Time`, and `DateTime`. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18335)) + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18335), + [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23687)) * Added `same_time` option to `#next_week` and `#prev_week` for `Date`, `Time`, and `DateTime`. @@ -913,7 +1012,7 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. * Added `#prev_day` and `#next_day` counterparts to `#yesterday` and `#tomorrow` for `Date`, `Time`, and `DateTime`. - ([Pull Request](httpshttps://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18335)) + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18335)) * Added `SecureRandom.base58` for generation of random base58 strings. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b1093977110f18ae0cafe56c3d99fc22a7d54d1b)) @@ -956,9 +1055,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. * Added `Array#second_to_last` and `Array#third_to_last` methods. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23583)) -* Added `#on_weekday?` method to `Date`, `Time`, and `DateTime`. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23687)) - * Publish `ActiveSupport::Executor` and `ActiveSupport::Reloader` APIs to allow components and libraries to manage, and participate in, the execution of application code, and the application reloading process. @@ -967,6 +1063,13 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. * `ActiveSupport::Duration` now supports ISO8601 formatting and parsing. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/16917)) +* `ActiveSupport::JSON.decode` now supports parsing ISO8601 local times when + `parse_json_times` is enabled. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23011)) + +* `ActiveSupport::JSON.decode` now return `Date` objects for date strings. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23011)) + * Added ability to `TaggedLogging` to allow loggers to be instantiated multiple times so that they don't share tags with each other. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/9065)) |