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diff --git a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md index 8ad2e2bdb4..a8182617f3 100644 --- a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ If your application is currently on any version of Rails older than 3.2.x, you s The following changes are meant for upgrading your application to Rails 4.0. +### Gemfile + +Rails 4.0 removed the `assets` group from Gemfile. You'd need to remove that line from your Gemfile when upgrading. + ### vendor/plugins Rails 4.0 no longer supports loading plugins from `vendor/plugins`. You must replace any plugins by extracting them to gems and adding them to your Gemfile. If you choose not to make them gems, you can move them into, say, `lib/my_plugin/*` and add an appropriate initializer in `config/initializers/my_plugin.rb`. @@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ Rails 4.0 extracted Active Resource to its own gem. If you still need the featur * Rails 4.0 has changed how errors attach with the `ActiveModel::Validations::ConfirmationValidator`. Now when confirmation validations fail, the error will be attached to `:#{attribute}_confirmation` instead of `attribute`. -* Rails 4.0 has changed `ActiveModel::Serializers::JSON.include_root_in_json` default value to `false`. Now, Active Model Serializers and Active Record objects have the same default behaviour. This means that you can comment or remove the following option in the `config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb` file: +* Rails 4.0 has changed `ActiveModel::Serializers::JSON.include_root_in_json` default value to `false`. Now, Active Model Serializers and Active Record objects have the same default behavior. This means that you can comment or remove the following option in the `config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb` file: ```ruby # Disable root element in JSON by default. @@ -88,17 +92,22 @@ Rails 4.0 extracted Active Resource to its own gem. If you still need the featur Please note that you should wait to set `secret_key_base` until you have 100% of your userbase on Rails 4.x and are reasonably sure you will not need to rollback to Rails 3.x. This is because cookies signed based on the new `secret_key_base` in Rails 4.x are not backwards compatible with Rails 3.x. You are free to leave your existing `secret_token` in place, not set the new `secret_key_base`, and ignore the deprecation warnings until you are reasonably sure that your upgrade is otherwise complete. -* Rails 4.0 introduces a new `UpgradeSignatureToEncryptionCookieStore` cookie store. This is useful for upgrading apps using the old default `CookieStore` to the new default `EncryptedCookieStore` which leverages the new `ActiveSupport::KeyGenerator`. To use this transitional cookie store, you'll want to leave your existing `secret_token` in place, add a new `secret_key_base`, and change your `session_store` like so: +If you are relying on the ability for external applications or Javascript to be able to read your Rails app's signed session cookies (or signed cookies in general) you should not set `secret_key_base` until you have decoupled these concerns. -```ruby - # config/initializers/session_store.rb - Myapp::Application.config.session_store :upgrade_signature_to_encryption_cookie_store, key: 'existing session key' +* Rails 4.0 encrypts the contents of cookie-based sessions if `secret_key_base` has been set. Rails 3.x signed, but did not encrypt, the contents of cookie-based session. Signed cookies are "secure" in that they are verified to have been generated by your app and are tamper-proof. However, the contents can be viewed by end users, and encrypting the contents eliminates this caveat/concern without a significant performance penalty. +As described above, existing signed cookies generated with Rails 3.x will be transparently upgraded if you leave your existing `secret_token` in place and add the new `secret_key_base`. + +```ruby # config/initializers/secret_token.rb Myapp::Application.config.secret_token = 'existing secret token' Myapp::Application.config.secret_key_base = 'new secret key base' ``` +The same caveats apply here, too. You should wait to set `secret_key_base` until you have 100% of your userbase on Rails 4.x and are reasonably sure you will not need to rollback to Rails 3.x. You should also take care to make sure you are not relying on the ability to decode signed cookies generated by your app in external applications or Javascript before upgrading. + +Please read [Pull Request #9978](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/9978) for details on the move to encrypted session cookies. + * Rails 4.0 removed the `ActionController::Base.asset_path` option. Use the assets pipeline feature. * Rails 4.0 has deprecated `ActionController::Base.page_cache_extension` option. Use `ActionController::Base.default_static_extension` instead. @@ -311,7 +320,7 @@ config.assets.debug = true Again, most of the changes below are for the asset pipeline. You can read more about these in the [Asset Pipeline](asset_pipeline.html) guide. ```ruby -# Compress JavaScripts and CSS +# Compress JavaScript and CSS config.assets.compress = true # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed |