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-rw-r--r--guides/source/active_storage_overview.md23
-rw-r--r--guides/source/configuring.md2
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diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md b/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md
index 5be514c786..d09adf3c19 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md
@@ -917,35 +917,29 @@ Schema Dumping and You
### What are Schema Files for?
Migrations, mighty as they may be, are not the authoritative source for your
-database schema. That role falls to either `db/schema.rb` or an SQL file which
-Active Record generates by examining the database. They are not designed to be
-edited, they just represent the current state of the database.
+database schema. Your database remains the authoritative source. By default,
+Rails generates `db/schema.rb` which attempts to capture the current state of
+your database schema.
-There is no need (and it is error prone) to deploy a new instance of an app by
-replaying the entire migration history. It is much simpler and faster to just
-load into the database a description of the current schema.
-
-For example, this is how the test database is created: the current development
-database is dumped (either to `db/schema.rb` or `db/structure.sql`) and then
-loaded into the test database.
+It tends to be faster and less error prone to create a new instance of your
+application's database by loading the schema file via `rails db:schema:load`
+than it is to replay the entire migration history. Old migrations may fail to
+apply correctly if those migrations use changing external dependencies or rely
+on application code which evolves separately from your migrations.
Schema files are also useful if you want a quick look at what attributes an
Active Record object has. This information is not in the model's code and is
frequently spread across several migrations, but the information is nicely
-summed up in the schema file. The
-[annotate_models](https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models) gem automatically
-adds and updates comments at the top of each model summarizing the schema if
-you desire that functionality.
+summed up in the schema file.
### Types of Schema Dumps
-There are two ways to dump the schema. This is set in `config/application.rb`
-by the `config.active_record.schema_format` setting, which may be either `:sql`
-or `:ruby`.
+The format of the schema dump generated by Rails is controlled by the
+`config.active_record.schema_format` setting in `config/application.rb`. By
+default, the format is `:ruby`, but can also be set to `:sql`.
If `:ruby` is selected, then the schema is stored in `db/schema.rb`. If you look
-at this file you'll find that it looks an awful lot like one very big
-migration:
+at this file you'll find that it looks an awful lot like one very big migration:
```ruby
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20080906171750) do
@@ -967,36 +961,32 @@ end
In many ways this is exactly what it is. This file is created by inspecting the
database and expressing its structure using `create_table`, `add_index`, and so
-on. Because this is database-independent, it could be loaded into any database
-that Active Record supports. This could be very useful if you were to
-distribute an application that is able to run against multiple databases.
-
-NOTE: `db/schema.rb` cannot express database specific items such as triggers,
-sequences, stored procedures or check constraints, etc. Please note that while
-custom SQL statements can be run in migrations, these statements cannot be reconstituted
-by the schema dumper. If you are using features like this, then you
-should set the schema format to `:sql`.
-
-Instead of using Active Record's schema dumper, the database's structure will
-be dumped using a tool specific to the database (via the `db:structure:dump`
-rails task) into `db/structure.sql`. For example, for PostgreSQL, the `pg_dump`
-utility is used. For MySQL and MariaDB, this file will contain the output of
-`SHOW CREATE TABLE` for the various tables.
-
-Loading these schemas is simply a question of executing the SQL statements they
-contain. By definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's
-structure. Using the `:sql` schema format will, however, prevent loading the
-schema into a RDBMS other than the one used to create it.
+on.
+
+`db/schema.rb` cannot express everything your database may support such as
+triggers, sequences, stored procedures, check constraints, etc. While migrations
+may use `execute` to create database constructs that are not supported by the
+Ruby migration DSL, these constructs may not be able to be reconstituted by the
+schema dumper. If you are using features like these, you should set the schema
+format to `:sql` in order to get an accurate schema file that is useful to
+create new database instances.
+
+When the schema format is set to `:sql`, the database structure will be dumped
+using a tool specific to the database into `db/structure.sql`. For example, for
+PostgreSQL, the `pg_dump` utility is used. For MySQL and MariaDB, this file will
+contain the output of `SHOW CREATE TABLE` for the various tables.
+
+To load the schema from `db/structure.sql`, run `rails db:structure:load`.
+Loading this file is done by executing the SQL statements it contains. By
+definition, this will create a perfect copy of the database's structure.
### Schema Dumps and Source Control
-Because schema dumps are the authoritative source for your database schema, it
-is strongly recommended that you check them into source control.
+Because schema files are commonly used to create new databases, it is strongly
+recommended that you check your schema file into source control.
-`db/schema.rb` contains the current version number of the database. This
-ensures conflicts are going to happen in the case of a merge where both
-branches touched the schema. When that happens, solve conflicts manually,
-keeping the highest version number of the two.
+Merge conflicts can occur in your schema file when two branches modify schema.
+To resolve these conflicts run `rails db:migrate` to regenerate the schema file.
Active Record and Referential Integrity
---------------------------------------
diff --git a/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md b/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md
index d67f65e88a..4a915b1083 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md
@@ -337,14 +337,15 @@ rails_blob_path(user.avatar, disposition: "attachment")
Transforming Images
-------------------
-To create variation of the image, call `variant` on the Blob.
-You can pass any [MiniMagick](https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick)
-supported transformation to the method.
+To create variation of the image, call `variant` on the Blob. You can pass
+any transformation to the method supported by the processor. The default
+processor is [MiniMagick](https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick), but you
+can also use [Vips](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-vips/Vips/Image).
-To enable variants, add `mini_magick` to your `Gemfile`:
+To enable variants, add the `image_processing` gem to your `Gemfile`:
```ruby
-gem 'mini_magick'
+gem 'image_processing', '~> 1.2'
```
When the browser hits the variant URL, Active Storage will lazy transform the
@@ -352,7 +353,15 @@ original blob into the format you specified and redirect to its new service
location.
```erb
-<%= image_tag user.avatar.variant(resize: "100x100") %>
+<%= image_tag user.avatar.variant(resize_to_fit: [100, 100]) %>
+```
+
+To switch to the Vips processor, you would add the following to
+`config/application.rb`:
+
+```ruby
+# Use Vips for processing variants.
+config.active_storage.variant_processor = :vips
```
Previewing Files
@@ -366,7 +375,7 @@ the box, Active Storage supports previewing videos and PDF documents.
<ul>
<% @message.files.each do |file| %>
<li>
- <%= image_tag file.preview(resize: "100x100>") %>
+ <%= image_tag file.preview(resize_to_limit: [100, 100]) %>
</li>
<% end %>
</ul>
diff --git a/guides/source/configuring.md b/guides/source/configuring.md
index 7d5ca4b8a7..c98e9b719c 100644
--- a/guides/source/configuring.md
+++ b/guides/source/configuring.md
@@ -778,6 +778,8 @@ normal Rails server.
`config.active_storage` provides the following configuration options:
+* `config.active_storage.variant_processor` accepts a symbol `:mini_magick` or `:vips`, specifying whether variant transformations will be performed with MiniMagick or ruby-vips. The default is `:mini_magick`.
+
* `config.active_storage.analyzers` accepts an array of classes indicating the analyzers available for Active Storage blobs. The default is `[ActiveStorage::Analyzer::ImageAnalyzer, ActiveStorage::Analyzer::VideoAnalyzer]`. The former can extract width and height of an image blob; the latter can extract width, height, duration, angle, and aspect ratio of a video blob.
* `config.active_storage.previewers` accepts an array of classes indicating the image previewers available in Active Storage blobs. The default is `[ActiveStorage::Previewer::PDFPreviewer, ActiveStorage::Previewer::VideoPreviewer]`. The former can generate a thumbnail from the first page of a PDF blob; the latter from the relevant frame of a video blob.