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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**DO NOT READ THIS FILE IN GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED IN http://guides.rubyonrails.org.**
+
A Guide for Upgrading Ruby on Rails
===================================
@@ -18,9 +20,10 @@ The best way to be sure that your application still works after upgrading is to
Rails generally stays close to the latest released Ruby version when it's released:
-* Rails 3 and above require Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. Support for all of the previous Ruby versions has been dropped officially. You should upgrade as early as possible.
-* Rails 3.2.x is the last branch to support Ruby 1.8.7.
+* Rails 5 requires Ruby 2.2 or newer.
* Rails 4 prefers Ruby 2.0 and requires 1.9.3 or newer.
+* Rails 3.2.x is the last branch to support Ruby 1.8.7.
+* Rails 3 and above require Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. Support for all of the previous Ruby versions has been dropped officially. You should upgrade as early as possible.
TIP: Ruby 1.8.7 p248 and p249 have marshaling bugs that crash Rails. Ruby Enterprise Edition has these fixed since the release of 1.8.7-2010.02. On the 1.9 front, Ruby 1.9.1 is not usable because it outright segfaults, so if you want to use 1.9.x, jump straight to 1.9.3 for smooth sailing.
@@ -47,24 +50,37 @@ Overwrite /myapp/config/application.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh]
Don't forget to review the difference, to see if there were any unexpected changes.
-Upgrading from Rails 4.1 to Rails 4.2
+Upgrading from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5.0
-------------------------------------
-NOTE: This section is a work in progress, please help to improve this by sending
-a [pull request](https://github.com/rails/rails/edit/master/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md).
+### Halting callback chains by returning `false`
-### Web Console
+In Rails 4.2, when a 'before' callback returns `false` in ActiveRecord,
+ActiveModel and ActiveModel::Validations, then the entire callback chain
+is halted. In other words, successive 'before' callbacks are not executed,
+and neither is the action wrapped in callbacks.
-First, add `gem 'web-console', '~> 2.0'` to the `:development` group in your Gemfile and run `bundle install` (it won't have been included when you upgraded Rails). Once it's been installed, you can simply drop a reference to the console helper (i.e., `<%= console %>`) into any view you want to enable it for. A console will also be provided on any error page you view in your development environment.
+In Rails 5.0, returning `false` in a callback will not have this side effect
+of halting the callback chain. Instead, callback chains must be explicitly
+halted by calling `throw(:abort)`.
-Additionally, you can tell Rails to automatically mount a VT100-compatible console on a predetermined path by setting the appropriate configuration flags in your development config:
+When you upgrade from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5.0, returning `false` in a callback
+will still halt the callback chain, but you will receive a deprecation warning
+about this upcoming change.
-```ruby
-# config/environments/development.rb
+When you are ready, you can opt into the new behavior and remove the deprecation
+warning by adding the following configuration to your `config/application.rb`:
-config.web_console.automount = true
-config.web_console.default_mount_path = '/terminal' # Optional, defaults to /console
-```
+ config.active_support.halt_callback_chains_on_return_false = false
+
+See [#17227](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/17227) for more details.
+
+Upgrading from Rails 4.1 to Rails 4.2
+-------------------------------------
+
+### Web Console
+
+First, add `gem 'web-console', '~> 2.0'` to the `:development` group in your Gemfile and run `bundle install` (it won't have been included when you upgraded Rails). Once it's been installed, you can simply drop a reference to the console helper (i.e., `<%= console %>`) into any view you want to enable it for. A console will also be provided on any error page you view in your development environment.
### Responders
@@ -145,6 +161,18 @@ 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).
+### Production log level
+
+In Rails 5, the default log level for the production environment will be changed
+to `:debug` (from `:info`). To preserve the current default, add the following
+line to your `production.rb`:
+
+```ruby
+# Set to `:info` to match the current default, or set to `:debug` to opt-into
+# the future default.
+config.log_level = :info
+```
+
### `after_bundle` in Rails templates
If you have a Rails template that adds all the files in version control, it
@@ -207,12 +235,47 @@ gem 'rails-deprecated_sanitizer'
```
### Rails DOM Testing
+
The [`TagAssertions` module](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Assertions/TagAssertions.html) (containing methods such as `assert_tag`), [has been deprecated](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/6061472b8c310158a2a2e8e9a6b81a1aef6b60fe/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/assertions/dom.rb) in favor of the `assert_select` methods from the `SelectorAssertions` module, which has been extracted into the [rails-dom-testing gem](https://github.com/rails/rails-dom-testing).
### Masked Authenticity Tokens
+
In order to mitigate SSL attacks, `form_authenticity_token` is now masked so that it varies with each request. Thus, tokens are validated by unmasking and then decrypting. As a result, any strategies for verifying requests from non-rails forms that relied on a static session CSRF token have to take this into account.
+### Action Mailer
+
+Previously, calling a mailer method on a mailer class will result in the
+corresponding instance method being executed directly. With the introduction of
+Active Job and `#deliver_later`, this is no longer true. In Rails 4.2, the
+invocation of the instance methods are deferred until either `deliver_now` or
+`deliver_later` is called. For example:
+
+```ruby
+class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ def notify(user, ...)
+ puts "Called"
+ mail(to: user.email, ...)
+ end
+end
+
+mail = Notifier.notify(user, ...) # Notifier#notify is not yet called at this point
+mail = mail.deliver_now # Prints "Called"
+```
+
+This should not result in any noticeable differences for most applications.
+However, if you need some non-mailer methods to be executed synchronously, and
+you were previously relying on the synchronous proxying behavior, you should
+define them as class methods on the mailer class directly:
+
+```ruby
+class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base
+ def self.broadcast_notifications(users, ...)
+ users.each { |user| Notifier.notify(user, ...) }
+ end
+end
+```
+
Upgrading from Rails 4.0 to Rails 4.1
-------------------------------------
@@ -731,7 +794,7 @@ file (in `config/application.rb`):
```ruby
# Require the gems listed in Gemfile, including any gems
# you've limited to :test, :development, or :production.
-Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env)
+Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)
```
### vendor/plugins
@@ -950,7 +1013,7 @@ The following changes are meant for upgrading your application to the latest
Make the following changes to your `Gemfile`.
```ruby
-gem 'rails', '3.2.18'
+gem 'rails', '3.2.21'
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 3.2.6'
@@ -1075,7 +1138,7 @@ You can help test performance with these additions to your test environment:
```ruby
# Configure static asset server for tests with Cache-Control for performance
-config.serve_static_assets = true
+config.serve_static_files = true
config.static_cache_control = 'public, max-age=3600'
```