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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ A Guide for Upgrading Ruby on Rails
This guide provides steps to be followed when you upgrade your applications to a newer version of Ruby on Rails. These steps are also available in individual release guides.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
General Advice
--------------
@@ -50,6 +52,76 @@ Upgrading from Rails 4.1 to Rails 4.2
NOTE: This section is a work in progress.
+### Serialized attributes
+
+When using a custom coder (e.g. `serialize :metadata, JSON`),
+assigning `nil` to a serialized attribute will save it to the database
+as `NULL` instead of passing the `nil` value through the coder (e.g. `"null"`
+when using the `JSON` coder).
+
+### `after_bundle` in Rails templates
+
+If you have a Rails template that adds all the files in version control, it
+fails to add the generated binstubs because it gets executed before Bundler:
+
+```ruby
+# template.rb
+generate(:scaffold, "person name:string")
+route "root to: 'people#index'"
+rake("db:migrate")
+
+git :init
+git add: "."
+git commit: %Q{ -m 'Initial commit' }
+```
+
+You can now wrap the `git` calls in an `after_bundle` block. It will be run
+after the binstubs have been generated.
+
+```ruby
+# template.rb
+generate(:scaffold, "person name:string")
+route "root to: 'people#index'"
+rake("db:migrate")
+
+after_bundle do
+ git :init
+ git add: "."
+ git commit: %Q{ -m 'Initial commit' }
+end
+```
+
+### Rails Html Sanitizer
+
+There's a new choice for sanitizing HTML fragments in your applications. The
+venerable html-scanner approach is now officially being deprecated in favor of
+[`Rails Html Sanitizer`](https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer).
+
+This means the methods `sanitize`, `sanitize_css`, `strip_tags` and
+`strip_links` are backed by a new implementation.
+
+In the next major Rails version `Rails Html Sanitizer` will be the default
+sanitizer. It already is for new applications.
+
+Include this in your Gemfile to try it out today:
+
+```ruby
+gem 'rails-html-sanitizer'
+```
+
+This new sanitizer uses [Loofah](https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah) internally. Loofah in turn uses Nokogiri, which
+wraps XML parsers written in both C and Java, so sanitization should be faster
+no matter which Ruby version you run.
+
+The new version updates `sanitize`, so it can take a `Loofah::Scrubber` for
+powerful scrubbing.
+[See some examples of scrubbers here](https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah#loofahscrubber).
+
+Two new scrubbers have also been added: `PermitScrubber` and `TargetScrubber`.
+Read the [gem's readme](https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer) for more information.
+
+The documentation for `PermitScrubber` and `TargetScrubber` explains how you
+can gain complete control over when and how elements should be stripped.
Upgrading from Rails 4.0 to Rails 4.1
-------------------------------------
@@ -239,6 +311,16 @@ If your application depends on one of these features, you can get them back by
adding the [`activesupport-json_encoder`](https://github.com/rails/activesupport-json_encoder)
gem to your Gemfile.
+#### JSON representation of Time objects
+
+`#as_json` for objects with time component (`Time`, `DateTime`, `ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone`)
+now returns millisecond precision by default. If you need to keep old behavior with no millisecond
+precision, set the following in an initializer:
+
+```
+ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.time_precision = 0
+```
+
### Usage of `return` within inline callback blocks
Previously, Rails allowed inline callback blocks to use `return` this way:
@@ -430,6 +512,20 @@ symbol access is no longer supported. This is also the case for
`store_accessors` based on top of `json` or `hstore` columns. Make sure to use
string keys consistently.
+### Explicit block use for `ActiveSupport::Callbacks`
+
+Rails 4.1 now expects an explicit block to be passed when calling
+`ActiveSupport::Callbacks.set_callback`. This change stems from
+`ActiveSupport::Callbacks` being largely rewritten for the 4.1 release.
+
+```ruby
+# Previously in Rails 4.0
+set_callback :save, :around, ->(r, &block) { stuff; result = block.call; stuff }
+
+# Now in Rails 4.1
+set_callback :save, :around, ->(r, block) { stuff; result = block.call; stuff }
+```
+
Upgrading from Rails 3.2 to Rails 4.0
-------------------------------------
@@ -561,6 +657,9 @@ Rails 4.0 no longer supports loading plugins from `vendor/plugins`. You must rep
* Rails 4.0 has changed `serialized_attributes` and `attr_readonly` to class methods only. You shouldn't use instance methods since it's now deprecated. You should change them to use class methods, e.g. `self.serialized_attributes` to `self.class.serialized_attributes`.
+* When using the default coder, assigning `nil` to a serialized attribute will save it
+to the database as `NULL` instead of passing the `nil` value through YAML (`"--- \n...\n"`).
+
* Rails 4.0 has removed `attr_accessible` and `attr_protected` feature in favor of Strong Parameters. You can use the [Protected Attributes gem](https://github.com/rails/protected_attributes) for a smooth upgrade path.
* If you are not using Protected Attributes, you can remove any options related to