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diff --git a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md index 6f5dea45b5..c0c94475e0 100644 --- a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -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' ``` |