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([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/cd7cc5254b090ccbb84dcee4408a5acede25ef2a)) +* Removed `Rack::ContentLength` middleware from the default + stack. ([Commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/56903585a099ab67a7acfaaef0a02db8fe80c450)) + ### Deprecations * Deprecated `config.static_cache_control` in favor of @@ -107,9 +110,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][railties] for detailed changes. the order they are invoked by Rails. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/19323)) -* Removed `Rack::ContentLength` middleware from the default - stack. ([Commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/56903585a099ab67a7acfaaef0a02db8fe80c450)) - * Added `bin/rails dev:cache` to enable or disable caching in development mode. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/20961)) @@ -431,6 +431,10 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. `#table_exists?` will check only tables in the future. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21601)) +* Deprecate sending the `offset` argument to `find_nth`. Please use the + `offset` method on relation instead. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22053)) + ### Notable changes * Added a `foreign_key` option to `references` while creating the table. @@ -490,9 +494,6 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-record] for detailed changes. * Added `config.active_record.warn_on_records_fetched_greater_than` option. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18846)) -* Added `cache_key` to `ActiveRecord::Relation`. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/20884)) - * Added a native JSON data type support in MySQL. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21110)) @@ -646,7 +647,7 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][active-support] for detailed changes. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/16938)) * Removed deprecated `ThreadSafe::Cache`. Use `Concurrent::Map` instead. - ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/16938)) + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/21679)) ### Deprecations diff --git a/guides/source/action_controller_overview.md b/guides/source/action_controller_overview.md index d2e2d27737..9ef2c1a441 100644 --- a/guides/source/action_controller_overview.md +++ b/guides/source/action_controller_overview.md @@ -995,10 +995,6 @@ you would like in a response object. The `ActionController::Live` module allows you to create a persistent connection with a browser. Using this module, you will be able to send arbitrary data to the browser at specific points in time. -NOTE: The default Rails server (WEBrick) is a buffering web server and does not -support streaming. In order to use this feature, you'll need to use a non buffering -server like [Puma](http://puma.io), [Rainbows](http://rainbows.bogomips.org) -or [Passenger](https://www.phusionpassenger.com). #### Incorporating Live Streaming @@ -1118,7 +1114,7 @@ Rails default exception handling displays a "500 Server Error" message for all e ### The Default 500 and 404 Templates -By default a production application will render either a 404 or a 500 error message. These messages are contained in static HTML files in the `public` folder, in `404.html` and `500.html` respectively. You can customize these files to add some extra information and style, but remember that they are static HTML; i.e. you can't use ERB, SCSS, CoffeeScript, or layouts for them. +By default a production application will render either a 404 or a 500 error message, in the development environment all unhandled exceptions are raised. These messages are contained in static HTML files in the `public` folder, in `404.html` and `500.html` respectively. You can customize these files to add some extra information and style, but remember that they are static HTML; i.e. you can't use ERB, SCSS, CoffeeScript, or layouts for them. ### `rescue_from` @@ -1174,7 +1170,11 @@ end WARNING: You shouldn't do `rescue_from Exception` or `rescue_from StandardError` unless you have a particular reason as it will cause serious side-effects (e.g. you won't be able to see exception details and tracebacks during development). -NOTE: Certain exceptions are only rescuable from the `ApplicationController` class, as they are raised before the controller gets initialized and the action gets executed. +NOTE: When running in the production environment, all +`ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound` errors render the 404 error page. Unless you need +a custom behavior you don't need to handle this. + +NOTE: Certain exceptions are only rescuable from the `ApplicationController` class, as they are raised before the controller gets initialized and the action gets executed. Force HTTPS protocol -------------------- diff --git a/guides/source/active_job_basics.md b/guides/source/active_job_basics.md index e36c0f899f..76c13f0ea9 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_job_basics.md +++ b/guides/source/active_job_basics.md @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ module YourApp end end -# app/jobs/guests_cleanup.rb +# app/jobs/guests_cleanup_job.rb class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base queue_as :low_priority #.... @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ module YourApp end end -# app/jobs/guests_cleanup.rb +# app/jobs/guests_cleanup_job.rb class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base queue_as :low_priority #.... diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md b/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md index d95c6c0e78..fb5d2065d3 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md +++ b/guides/source/active_record_callbacks.md @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ As you start registering new callbacks for your models, they will be queued for The whole callback chain is wrapped in a transaction. If any _before_ callback method returns exactly `false` or raises an exception, the execution chain gets halted and a ROLLBACK is issued; _after_ callbacks can only accomplish that by raising an exception. -WARNING. Any exception that is not `ActiveRecord::Rollback` will be re-raised by Rails after the callback chain is halted. Raising an exception other than `ActiveRecord::Rollback` may break code that does not expect methods like `save` and `update_attributes` (which normally try to return `true` or `false`) to raise an exception. +WARNING. Any exception that is not `ActiveRecord::Rollback` or `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` will be re-raised by Rails after the callback chain is halted. Raising an exception other than `ActiveRecord::Rollback` or `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` may break code that does not expect methods like `save` and `update_attributes` (which normally try to return `true` or `false`) to raise an exception. Relational Callbacks -------------------- diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md b/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md index a4a23395fb..83f4b951ee 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md +++ b/guides/source/active_record_migrations.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know: * The generators you can use to create them. * The methods Active Record provides to manipulate your database. -* The Rake tasks that manipulate migrations and your schema. +* The bin/rails tasks that manipulate migrations and your schema. * How migrations relate to `schema.rb`. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -717,9 +717,9 @@ you will have to use `structure.sql` as dump method. See Running Migrations ------------------ -Rails provides a set of Rake tasks to run certain sets of migrations. +Rails provides a set of bin/rails tasks to run certain sets of migrations. -The very first migration related Rake task you will use will probably be +The very first migration related bin/rails task you will use will probably be `rails db:migrate`. In its most basic form it just runs the `change` or `up` method for all the migrations that have not yet been run. If there are no such migrations, it exits. It will run these migrations in order based @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ if you need to go more than one version back, for example: $ bin/rails db:migrate:redo STEP=3 ``` -Neither of these Rake tasks do anything you could not do with `db:migrate`. They +Neither of these bin/rails tasks do anything you could not do with `db:migrate`. They are simply more convenient, since you do not need to explicitly specify the version to migrate to. @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ it with the seed data. ### Resetting the Database The `rails db:reset` task will drop the database and set it up again. This is -functionally equivalent to `rake db:drop db:setup`. +functionally equivalent to `rails db:drop db:setup`. NOTE: This is not the same as running all the migrations. It will only use the contents of the current `db/schema.rb` or `db/structure.sql` file. If a migration can't be rolled back, @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ Active Record believes that it has already been run. ### Running Migrations in Different Environments -By default running `rake db:migrate` will run in the `development` environment. +By default running `bin/rails db:migrate` will run in the `development` environment. To run migrations against another environment you can specify it using the `RAILS_ENV` environment variable while running the command. For example to run migrations against the `test` environment you could run: @@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ Occasionally you will make a mistake when writing a migration. If you have already run the migration then you cannot just edit the migration and run the migration again: Rails thinks it has already run the migration and so will do nothing when you run `rails db:migrate`. You must rollback the migration (for -example with `rake db:rollback`), edit your migration and then run +example with `bin/rails db:rollback`), edit your migration and then run `rails db:migrate` to run the corrected version. In general, editing existing migrations is not a good idea. You will be diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md b/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md index b592209d4b..68c6a77882 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md +++ b/guides/source/active_record_postgresql.md @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ Book.where("array_length(ratings, 1) >= 3") ### Hstore * [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html) +* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html#AEN167712) NOTE: You need to enable the `hstore` extension to use hstore. @@ -108,6 +109,9 @@ profile.settings # => {"color"=>"blue", "resolution"=>"800x600"} profile.settings = {"color" => "yellow", "resolution" => "1280x1024"} profile.save! + +Profile.where("settings->'color' = ?", "yellow") +#=> #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<Profile id: 1, settings: {"color"=>"yellow", "resolution"=>"1280x1024"}>]> ``` ### JSON diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_querying.md b/guides/source/active_record_querying.md index 4606ac4683..784be91845 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_record_querying.md +++ b/guides/source/active_record_querying.md @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ To retrieve objects from the database, Active Record provides several finder met The methods are: -* `bind` +* `find` * `create_with` * `distinct` * `eager_load` @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ TIP: The retrieved record may vary depending on the database engine. #### `first` -The `first` method finds the first record ordered by the primary key. For example: +The `first` method finds the first record ordered by primary key (default). For example: ```ruby client = Client.first @@ -204,11 +204,24 @@ The SQL equivalent of the above is: SELECT * FROM clients ORDER BY clients.id ASC LIMIT 3 ``` +On a collection that is ordered using `order`, `first` will return the first record ordered by the specified attribute for `order`. + +```ruby +client = Client.order(:first_name).first +# => #<Client id: 2, first_name: "Fifo"> +``` + +The SQL equivalent of the above is: + +```sql +SELECT * FROM clients ORDER BY clients.first_name ASC LIMIT 1 +``` + The `first!` method behaves exactly like `first`, except that it will raise `ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound` if no matching record is found. #### `last` -The `last` method finds the last record ordered by the primary key. For example: +The `last` method finds the last record ordered by primary key (default). For example: ```ruby client = Client.last @@ -242,6 +255,19 @@ The SQL equivalent of the above is: SELECT * FROM clients ORDER BY clients.id DESC LIMIT 3 ``` +On a collection that is ordered using `order`, `last` will return the last record ordered by the specified attribute for `order`. + +```ruby +client = Client.order(:first_name).last +# => #<Client id: 220, first_name: "Sara"> +``` + +The SQL equivalent of the above is: + +```sql +SELECT * FROM clients ORDER BY clients.first_name DESC LIMIT 1 +``` + The `last!` method behaves exactly like `last`, except that it will raise `ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound` if no matching record is found. #### `find_by` @@ -322,7 +348,7 @@ end The `find_each` method accepts most of the options allowed by the regular `find` method, except for `:order` and `:limit`, which are reserved for internal use by `find_each`. -Three additional options, `:batch_size`, `:begin_at` and `:end_at`, are available as well. +Three additional options, `:batch_size`, `:start` and `:finish`, are available as well. **`:batch_size`** @@ -334,34 +360,34 @@ User.find_each(batch_size: 5000) do |user| end ``` -**`:begin_at`** +**`:start`** -By default, records are fetched in ascending order of the primary key, which must be an integer. The `:begin_at` option allows you to configure the first ID of the sequence whenever the lowest ID is not the one you need. This would be useful, for example, if you wanted to resume an interrupted batch process, provided you saved the last processed ID as a checkpoint. +By default, records are fetched in ascending order of the primary key, which must be an integer. The `:start` option allows you to configure the first ID of the sequence whenever the lowest ID is not the one you need. This would be useful, for example, if you wanted to resume an interrupted batch process, provided you saved the last processed ID as a checkpoint. For example, to send newsletters only to users with the primary key starting from 2000, and to retrieve them in batches of 5000: ```ruby -User.find_each(begin_at: 2000, batch_size: 5000) do |user| +User.find_each(start: 2000, batch_size: 5000) do |user| NewsMailer.weekly(user).deliver_now end ``` -**`:end_at`** +**`:finish`** -Similar to the `:begin_at` option, `:end_at` allows you to configure the last ID of the sequence whenever the highest ID is not the one you need. -This would be useful, for example, if you wanted to run a batch process, using a subset of records based on `:begin_at` and `:end_at` +Similar to the `:start` option, `:finish` allows you to configure the last ID of the sequence whenever the highest ID is not the one you need. +This would be useful, for example, if you wanted to run a batch process, using a subset of records based on `:start` and `:finish` For example, to send newsletters only to users with the primary key starting from 2000 up to 10000 and to retrieve them in batches of 5000: ```ruby -User.find_each(begin_at: 2000, end_at: 10000, batch_size: 5000) do |user| +User.find_each(start: 2000, finish: 10000, batch_size: 5000) do |user| NewsMailer.weekly(user).deliver_now end ``` Another example would be if you wanted multiple workers handling the same processing queue. You could have each worker handle 10000 records by setting the -appropriate `:begin_at` and `:end_at` options on each worker. +appropriate `:start` and `:finish` options on each worker. #### `find_in_batches` @@ -376,7 +402,7 @@ end ##### Options for `find_in_batches` -The `find_in_batches` method accepts the same `:batch_size`, `:begin_at` and `:end_at` options as `find_each`. +The `find_in_batches` method accepts the same `:batch_size`, `:start` and `:finish` options as `find_each`. Conditions ---------- diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md index 0cb34aa8bc..0aca6db9b6 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md +++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md @@ -2024,12 +2024,14 @@ Produce a string representation of a number rounded to a precision: Produce a string representation of a number as a human-readable number of bytes: ```ruby -123.to_s(:human_size) # => 123 Bytes -1234.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.21 KB -12345.to_s(:human_size) # => 12.1 KB -1234567.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.18 MB -1234567890.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.15 GB -1234567890123.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.12 TB +123.to_s(:human_size) # => 123 Bytes +1234.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.21 KB +12345.to_s(:human_size) # => 12.1 KB +1234567.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.18 MB +1234567890.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.15 GB +1234567890123.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.12 TB +1234567890123456.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.1 PB +1234567890123456789.to_s(:human_size) # => 1.07 EB ``` Produce a string representation of a number in human-readable words: diff --git a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md index 0083fc0e6c..60f78d011c 100644 --- a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md +++ b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md @@ -1280,8 +1280,9 @@ config.assets.debug = true And in `production.rb`: ```ruby -# Choose the compressors to use (if any) config.assets.js_compressor = -# :uglifier config.assets.css_compressor = :yui +# Choose the compressors to use (if any) +config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier +# config.assets.css_compressor = :yui # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed config.assets.compile = false @@ -1290,7 +1291,8 @@ config.assets.compile = false config.assets.digest = true # Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all -# non-JS/CSS are already added) config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js ) +# non-JS/CSS are already added) +# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js ) ``` Rails 4 no longer sets default config values for Sprockets in `test.rb`, so diff --git a/guides/source/association_basics.md b/guides/source/association_basics.md index d83dda7228..accce5a904 100644 --- a/guides/source/association_basics.md +++ b/guides/source/association_basics.md @@ -16,54 +16,54 @@ After reading this guide, you will know: Why Associations? ----------------- -In Rails, an _association_ is a connection between two Active Record models. Why do we need associations between models? Because they make common operations simpler and easier in your code. For example, consider a simple Rails application that includes a model for customers and a model for orders. Each customer can have many orders. Without associations, the model declarations would look like this: +In Rails, an _association_ is a connection between two Active Record models. Why do we need associations between models? Because they make common operations simpler and easier in your code. For example, consider a simple Rails application that includes a model for authors and a model for books. Each author can have many books. Without associations, the model declarations would look like this: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord +class Author < ApplicationRecord end -class Order < ApplicationRecord +class Book < ApplicationRecord end ``` -Now, suppose we wanted to add a new order for an existing customer. We'd need to do something like this: +Now, suppose we wanted to add a new book for an existing author. We'd need to do something like this: ```ruby -@order = Order.create(order_date: Time.now, customer_id: @customer.id) +@book = Book.create(published_at: Time.now, author_id: @author.id) ``` -Or consider deleting a customer, and ensuring that all of its orders get deleted as well: +Or consider deleting an author, and ensuring that all of its books get deleted as well: ```ruby -@orders = Order.where(customer_id: @customer.id) -@orders.each do |order| - order.destroy +@books = Book.where(author_id: @author.id) +@books.each do |book| + book.destroy end -@customer.destroy +@author.destroy ``` -With Active Record associations, we can streamline these - and other - operations by declaratively telling Rails that there is a connection between the two models. Here's the revised code for setting up customers and orders: +With Active Record associations, we can streamline these - and other - operations by declaratively telling Rails that there is a connection between the two models. Here's the revised code for setting up authors and books: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, dependent: :destroy +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, dependent: :destroy end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end ``` -With this change, creating a new order for a particular customer is easier: +With this change, creating a new book for a particular author is easier: ```ruby -@order = @customer.orders.create(order_date: Time.now) +@book = @author.books.create(published_at: Time.now) ``` -Deleting a customer and all of its orders is *much* easier: +Deleting an author and all of its books is *much* easier: ```ruby -@customer.destroy +@author.destroy ``` To learn more about the different types of associations, read the next section of this guide. That's followed by some tips and tricks for working with associations, and then by a complete reference to the methods and options for associations in Rails. @@ -86,31 +86,31 @@ In the remainder of this guide, you'll learn how to declare and use the various ### The `belongs_to` Association -A `belongs_to` association sets up a one-to-one connection with another model, such that each instance of the declaring model "belongs to" one instance of the other model. For example, if your application includes customers and orders, and each order can be assigned to exactly one customer, you'd declare the order model this way: +A `belongs_to` association sets up a one-to-one connection with another model, such that each instance of the declaring model "belongs to" one instance of the other model. For example, if your application includes authors and books, and each book can be assigned to exactly one author, you'd declare the book model this way: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end ```  -NOTE: `belongs_to` associations _must_ use the singular term. If you used the pluralized form in the above example for the `customer` association in the `Order` model, you would be told that there was an "uninitialized constant Order::Customers". This is because Rails automatically infers the class name from the association name. If the association name is wrongly pluralized, then the inferred class will be wrongly pluralized too. +NOTE: `belongs_to` associations _must_ use the singular term. If you used the pluralized form in the above example for the `author` association in the `Book` model, you would be told that there was an "uninitialized constant Book::Authors". This is because Rails automatically infers the class name from the association name. If the association name is wrongly pluralized, then the inferred class will be wrongly pluralized too. The corresponding migration might look like this: ```ruby -class CreateOrders < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] +class CreateBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change - create_table :customers do |t| + create_table :authors do |t| t.string :name t.timestamps null: false end - create_table :orders do |t| - t.belongs_to :customer, index: true - t.datetime :order_date + create_table :books do |t| + t.belongs_to :author, index: true + t.datetime :published_at t.timestamps null: false end end @@ -161,11 +161,11 @@ end ### The `has_many` Association -A `has_many` association indicates a one-to-many connection with another model. You'll often find this association on the "other side" of a `belongs_to` association. This association indicates that each instance of the model has zero or more instances of another model. For example, in an application containing customers and orders, the customer model could be declared like this: +A `has_many` association indicates a one-to-many connection with another model. You'll often find this association on the "other side" of a `belongs_to` association. This association indicates that each instance of the model has zero or more instances of another model. For example, in an application containing authors and books, the author model could be declared like this: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` @@ -176,16 +176,16 @@ NOTE: The name of the other model is pluralized when declaring a `has_many` asso The corresponding migration might look like this: ```ruby -class CreateCustomers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] +class CreateAuthors < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change - create_table :customers do |t| + create_table :authors do |t| t.string :name t.timestamps null: false end - create_table :orders do |t| - t.belongs_to :customer, index: true - t.datetime :order_date + create_table :books do |t| + t.belongs_to :author, index: true + t.datetime :published_at t.timestamps null: false end end @@ -540,17 +540,17 @@ Here are a few things you should know to make efficient use of Active Record ass All of the association methods are built around caching, which keeps the result of the most recent query available for further operations. The cache is even shared across methods. For example: ```ruby -customer.orders # retrieves orders from the database -customer.orders.size # uses the cached copy of orders -customer.orders.empty? # uses the cached copy of orders +author.books # retrieves books from the database +author.books.size # uses the cached copy of books +author.books.empty? # uses the cached copy of books ``` But what if you want to reload the cache, because data might have been changed by some other part of the application? Just pass `true` to the association call: ```ruby -customer.orders # retrieves orders from the database -customer.orders.size # uses the cached copy of orders -customer.orders(true).empty? # discards the cached copy of orders +author.books # retrieves books from the database +author.books.size # uses the cached copy of books +author.books(true).empty? # discards the cached copy of books # and goes back to the database ``` @@ -567,23 +567,23 @@ Associations are extremely useful, but they are not magic. You are responsible f When you declare a `belongs_to` association, you need to create foreign keys as appropriate. For example, consider this model: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end ``` -This declaration needs to be backed up by the proper foreign key declaration on the orders table: +This declaration needs to be backed up by the proper foreign key declaration on the books table: ```ruby -class CreateOrders < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] +class CreateBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change - create_table :orders do |t| - t.datetime :order_date - t.string :order_number - t.integer :customer_id + create_table :books do |t| + t.datetime :published_at + t.string :book_number + t.integer :author_id end - add_index :orders, :customer_id + add_index :books, :author_id end end ``` @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ If you create an association some time after you build the underlying model, you #### Creating Join Tables for `has_and_belongs_to_many` Associations -If you create a `has_and_belongs_to_many` association, you need to explicitly create the joining table. Unless the name of the join table is explicitly specified by using the `:join_table` option, Active Record creates the name by using the lexical order of the class names. So a join between customer and order models will give the default join table name of "customers_orders" because "c" outranks "o" in lexical ordering. +If you create a `has_and_belongs_to_many` association, you need to explicitly create the joining table. Unless the name of the join table is explicitly specified by using the `:join_table` option, Active Record creates the name by using the lexical book of the class names. So a join between author and book models will give the default join table name of "authors_books" because "a" outranks "b" in lexical ordering. WARNING: The precedence between model names is calculated using the `<=>` operator for `String`. This means that if the strings are of different lengths, and the strings are equal when compared up to the shortest length, then the longer string is considered of higher lexical precedence than the shorter one. For example, one would expect the tables "paper_boxes" and "papers" to generate a join table name of "papers_paper_boxes" because of the length of the name "paper_boxes", but it in fact generates a join table name of "paper_boxes_papers" (because the underscore '\_' is lexicographically _less_ than 's' in common encodings). @@ -700,45 +700,45 @@ end It's normal for associations to work in two directions, requiring declaration on two different models: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end ``` By default, Active Record doesn't know about the connection between these associations. This can lead to two copies of an object getting out of sync: ```ruby -c = Customer.first -o = c.orders.first -c.first_name == o.customer.first_name # => true -c.first_name = 'Manny' -c.first_name == o.customer.first_name # => false +a = Author.first +b = c.books.first +a.first_name == b.author.first_name # => true +a.first_name = 'Manny' +a.first_name == b.author.first_name # => false ``` -This happens because `c` and `o.customer` are two different in-memory representations of the same data, and neither one is automatically refreshed from changes to the other. Active Record provides the `:inverse_of` option so that you can inform it of these relations: +This happens because `a` and `b.author` are two different in-memory representations of the same data, and neither one is automatically refreshed from changes to the other. Active Record provides the `:inverse_of` option so that you can inform it of these relations: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, inverse_of: :customer +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, inverse_of: :author end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, inverse_of: :orders +class book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, inverse_of: :books end ``` -With these changes, Active Record will only load one copy of the customer object, preventing inconsistencies and making your application more efficient: +With these changes, Active Record will only load one copy of the author object, preventing inconsistencies and making your application more efficient: ```ruby -c = Customer.first -o = c.orders.first -c.first_name == o.customer.first_name # => true -c.first_name = 'Manny' -c.first_name == o.customer.first_name # => true +a = author.first +b = c.books.first +a.first_name == b.author.first_name # => true +a.first_name = 'Manny' +a.first_name == b.author.first_name # => true ``` There are a few limitations to `inverse_of` support: @@ -781,19 +781,19 @@ When you declare a `belongs_to` association, the declaring class automatically g In all of these methods, `association` is replaced with the symbol passed as the first argument to `belongs_to`. For example, given the declaration: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end ``` -Each instance of the `Order` model will have these methods: +Each instance of the `Book` model will have these methods: ```ruby -customer -customer= -build_customer -create_customer -create_customer! +author +author= +build_author +create_author +create_author! ``` NOTE: When initializing a new `has_one` or `belongs_to` association you must use the `build_` prefix to build the association, rather than the `association.build` method that would be used for `has_many` or `has_and_belongs_to_many` associations. To create one, use the `create_` prefix. @@ -803,13 +803,13 @@ NOTE: When initializing a new `has_one` or `belongs_to` association you must use The `association` method returns the associated object, if any. If no associated object is found, it returns `nil`. ```ruby -@customer = @order.customer +@author = @book.author ``` If the associated object has already been retrieved from the database for this object, the cached version will be returned. To override this behavior (and force a database read), call `#reload` on the parent object. ```ruby -@customer = @order.reload.customer +@author = @book.reload.author ``` ##### `association=(associate)` @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ If the associated object has already been retrieved from the database for this o The `association=` method assigns an associated object to this object. Behind the scenes, this means extracting the primary key from the associated object and setting this object's foreign key to the same value. ```ruby -@order.customer = @customer +@book.author = @author ``` ##### `build_association(attributes = {})` @@ -825,8 +825,8 @@ The `association=` method assigns an associated object to this object. Behind th The `build_association` method returns a new object of the associated type. This object will be instantiated from the passed attributes, and the link through this object's foreign key will be set, but the associated object will _not_ yet be saved. ```ruby -@customer = @order.build_customer(customer_number: 123, - customer_name: "John Doe") +@author = @book.build_author(author_number: 123, + author_name: "John Doe") ``` ##### `create_association(attributes = {})` @@ -834,8 +834,8 @@ The `build_association` method returns a new object of the associated type. This The `create_association` method returns a new object of the associated type. This object will be instantiated from the passed attributes, the link through this object's foreign key will be set, and, once it passes all of the validations specified on the associated model, the associated object _will_ be saved. ```ruby -@customer = @order.create_customer(customer_number: 123, - customer_name: "John Doe") +@author = @book.create_author(author_number: 123, + author_name: "John Doe") ``` ##### `create_association!(attributes = {})` @@ -848,8 +848,8 @@ Does the same as `create_association` above, but raises `ActiveRecord::RecordInv While Rails uses intelligent defaults that will work well in most situations, there may be times when you want to customize the behavior of the `belongs_to` association reference. Such customizations can easily be accomplished by passing options and scope blocks when you create the association. For example, this association uses two such options: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, dependent: :destroy, +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, dependent: :destroy, counter_cache: true end ``` @@ -874,11 +874,11 @@ If you set the `:autosave` option to `true`, Rails will save any loaded members ##### `:class_name` -If the name of the other model cannot be derived from the association name, you can use the `:class_name` option to supply the model name. For example, if an order belongs to a customer, but the actual name of the model containing customers is `Patron`, you'd set things up this way: +If the name of the other model cannot be derived from the association name, you can use the `:class_name` option to supply the model name. For example, if a book belongs to an author, but the actual name of the model containing authors is `Patron`, you'd set things up this way: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, class_name: "Patron" +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, class_name: "Patron" end ``` @@ -887,22 +887,22 @@ end The `:counter_cache` option can be used to make finding the number of belonging objects more efficient. Consider these models: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` -With these declarations, asking for the value of `@customer.orders.size` requires making a call to the database to perform a `COUNT(*)` query. To avoid this call, you can add a counter cache to the _belonging_ model: +With these declarations, asking for the value of `@author.books.size` requires making a call to the database to perform a `COUNT(*)` query. To avoid this call, you can add a counter cache to the _belonging_ model: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, counter_cache: true +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, counter_cache: true end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` @@ -911,18 +911,18 @@ With this declaration, Rails will keep the cache value up to date, and then retu Although the `:counter_cache` option is specified on the model that includes the `belongs_to` declaration, the actual column must be added to the _associated_ (`has_many`) model. In the case above, you would need to add a -column named `orders_count` to the `Customer` model. +column named `books_count` to the `Author` model. You can override the default column name by specifying a custom column name in the `counter_cache` declaration instead of `true`. For example, to use -`count_of_orders` instead of `orders_count`: +`count_of_books` instead of `books_count`: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, counter_cache: :count_of_orders +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, counter_cache: :count_of_books end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` @@ -949,8 +949,8 @@ WARNING: You should not specify this option on a `belongs_to` association that i By convention, Rails assumes that the column used to hold the foreign key on this model is the name of the association with the suffix `_id` added. The `:foreign_key` option lets you set the name of the foreign key directly: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, class_name: "Patron", +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, class_name: "Patron", foreign_key: "patron_id" end ``` @@ -982,12 +982,12 @@ When we execute `@user.todos.create` then the `@todo` record will have its The `:inverse_of` option specifies the name of the `has_many` or `has_one` association that is the inverse of this association. Does not work in combination with the `:polymorphic` options. ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, inverse_of: :customer +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, inverse_of: :author end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, inverse_of: :orders +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, inverse_of: :books end ``` @@ -1000,20 +1000,20 @@ Passing `true` to the `:polymorphic` option indicates that this is a polymorphic If you set the `:touch` option to `true`, then the `updated_at` or `updated_on` timestamp on the associated object will be set to the current time whenever this object is saved or destroyed: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, touch: true +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, touch: true end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` -In this case, saving or destroying an order will update the timestamp on the associated customer. You can also specify a particular timestamp attribute to update: +In this case, saving or destroying an book will update the timestamp on the associated author. You can also specify a particular timestamp attribute to update: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, touch: :orders_updated_at +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, touch: :books_updated_at end ``` @@ -1031,8 +1031,8 @@ object won't be validated. By default, this option is set to `false`. There may be times when you wish to customize the query used by `belongs_to`. Such customizations can be achieved via a scope block. For example: ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, -> { where active: true }, +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, -> { where active: true }, dependent: :destroy end ``` @@ -1049,8 +1049,8 @@ You can use any of the standard [querying methods](active_record_querying.html) The `where` method lets you specify the conditions that the associated object must meet. ```ruby -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, -> { where active: true } +class book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, -> { where active: true } end ``` @@ -1060,37 +1060,37 @@ You can use the `includes` method to specify second-order associations that shou ```ruby class LineItem < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :order + belongs_to :book end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author has_many :line_items end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` -If you frequently retrieve customers directly from line items (`@line_item.order.customer`), then you can make your code somewhat more efficient by including customers in the association from line items to orders: +If you frequently retrieve authors directly from line items (`@line_item.book.author`), then you can make your code somewhat more efficient by including authors in the association from line items to books: ```ruby class LineItem < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :order, -> { includes :customer } + belongs_to :book, -> { includes :author } end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author has_many :line_items end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` -NOTE: There's no need to use `includes` for immediate associations - that is, if you have `Order belongs_to :customer`, then the customer is eager-loaded automatically when it's needed. +NOTE: There's no need to use `includes` for immediate associations - that is, if you have `Book belongs_to :author`, then the author is eager-loaded automatically when it's needed. ##### `readonly` @@ -1107,8 +1107,8 @@ TIP: If you use the `select` method on a `belongs_to` association, you should al You can see if any associated objects exist by using the `association.nil?` method: ```ruby -if @order.customer.nil? - @msg = "No customer found for this order" +if @book.author.nil? + @msg = "No author found for this book" end ``` @@ -1415,30 +1415,30 @@ When you declare a `has_many` association, the declaring class automatically gai In all of these methods, `collection` is replaced with the symbol passed as the first argument to `has_many`, and `collection_singular` is replaced with the singularized version of that symbol. For example, given the declaration: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end ``` -Each instance of the `Customer` model will have these methods: +Each instance of the `Author` model will have these methods: ```ruby -orders -orders<<(object, ...) -orders.delete(object, ...) -orders.destroy(object, ...) -orders=(objects) -order_ids -order_ids=(ids) -orders.clear -orders.empty? -orders.size -orders.find(...) -orders.where(...) -orders.exists?(...) -orders.build(attributes = {}, ...) -orders.create(attributes = {}) -orders.create!(attributes = {}) +books +books<<(object, ...) +books.delete(object, ...) +books.destroy(object, ...) +books=(objects) +book_ids +book_ids=(ids) +books.clear +books.empty? +books.size +books.find(...) +books.where(...) +books.exists?(...) +books.build(attributes = {}, ...) +books.create(attributes = {}) +books.create!(attributes = {}) ``` ##### `collection` @@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ orders.create!(attributes = {}) The `collection` method returns an array of all of the associated objects. If there are no associated objects, it returns an empty array. ```ruby -@orders = @customer.orders +@books = @author.books ``` ##### `collection<<(object, ...)` @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ The `collection` method returns an array of all of the associated objects. If th The `collection<<` method adds one or more objects to the collection by setting their foreign keys to the primary key of the calling model. ```ruby -@customer.orders << @order1 +@author.books << @book1 ``` ##### `collection.delete(object, ...)` @@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ The `collection<<` method adds one or more objects to the collection by setting The `collection.delete` method removes one or more objects from the collection by setting their foreign keys to `NULL`. ```ruby -@customer.orders.delete(@order1) +@author.books.delete(@book1) ``` WARNING: Additionally, objects will be destroyed if they're associated with `dependent: :destroy`, and deleted if they're associated with `dependent: :delete_all`. @@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ WARNING: Additionally, objects will be destroyed if they're associated with `dep The `collection.destroy` method removes one or more objects from the collection by running `destroy` on each object. ```ruby -@customer.orders.destroy(@order1) +@author.books.destroy(@book1) ``` WARNING: Objects will _always_ be removed from the database, ignoring the `:dependent` option. @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ The `collection=` method makes the collection contain only the supplied objects, The `collection_singular_ids` method returns an array of the ids of the objects in the collection. ```ruby -@order_ids = @customer.order_ids +@book_ids = @author.book_ids ``` ##### `collection_singular_ids=(ids)` @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ The `collection_singular_ids=` method makes the collection contain only the obje The `collection.clear` method removes all objects from the collection according to the strategy specified by the `dependent` option. If no option is given, it follows the default strategy. The default strategy for `has_many :through` associations is `delete_all`, and for `has_many` associations is to set the foreign keys to `NULL`. ```ruby -@customer.orders.clear +@author.books.clear ``` WARNING: Objects will be deleted if they're associated with `dependent: :destroy`, @@ -1509,8 +1509,8 @@ just like `dependent: :delete_all`. The `collection.empty?` method returns `true` if the collection does not contain any associated objects. ```erb -<% if @customer.orders.empty? %> - No Orders Found +<% if @author.books.empty? %> + No Books Found <% end %> ``` @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ The `collection.empty?` method returns `true` if the collection does not contain The `collection.size` method returns the number of objects in the collection. ```ruby -@order_count = @customer.orders.size +@book_count = @author.books.size ``` ##### `collection.find(...)` @@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ The `collection.size` method returns the number of objects in the collection. The `collection.find` method finds objects within the collection. It uses the same syntax and options as `ActiveRecord::Base.find`. ```ruby -@open_orders = @customer.orders.find(1) +@available_books = @author.books.find(1) ``` ##### `collection.where(...)` @@ -1535,8 +1535,8 @@ The `collection.find` method finds objects within the collection. It uses the sa The `collection.where` method finds objects within the collection based on the conditions supplied but the objects are loaded lazily meaning that the database is queried only when the object(s) are accessed. ```ruby -@open_orders = @customer.orders.where(open: true) # No query yet -@open_order = @open_orders.first # Now the database will be queried +@available_books = @author.books.where(available: true) # No query yet +@available_book = @available_books.first # Now the database will be queried ``` ##### `collection.exists?(...)` @@ -1550,12 +1550,12 @@ conditions exists in the collection. It uses the same syntax and options as The `collection.build` method returns a single or array of new objects of the associated type. The object(s) will be instantiated from the passed attributes, and the link through their foreign key will be created, but the associated objects will _not_ yet be saved. ```ruby -@order = @customer.orders.build(order_date: Time.now, - order_number: "A12345") +@book = @author.books.build(published_at: Time.now, + book_number: "A12345") -@orders = @customer.orders.build([ - { order_date: Time.now, order_number: "A12346" }, - { order_date: Time.now, order_number: "A12347" } +@books = @author.books.build([ + { published_at: Time.now, book_number: "A12346" }, + { published_at: Time.now, book_number: "A12347" } ]) ``` @@ -1564,12 +1564,12 @@ The `collection.build` method returns a single or array of new objects of the as The `collection.create` method returns a single or array of new objects of the associated type. The object(s) will be instantiated from the passed attributes, the link through its foreign key will be created, and, once it passes all of the validations specified on the associated model, the associated object _will_ be saved. ```ruby -@order = @customer.orders.create(order_date: Time.now, - order_number: "A12345") +@book = @author.books.create(published_at: Time.now, + book_number: "A12345") -@orders = @customer.orders.create([ - { order_date: Time.now, order_number: "A12346" }, - { order_date: Time.now, order_number: "A12347" } +@books = @author.books.create([ + { published_at: Time.now, book_number: "A12346" }, + { published_at: Time.now, book_number: "A12347" } ]) ``` @@ -1582,8 +1582,8 @@ Does the same as `collection.create` above, but raises `ActiveRecord::RecordInva While Rails uses intelligent defaults that will work well in most situations, there may be times when you want to customize the behavior of the `has_many` association reference. Such customizations can easily be accomplished by passing options when you create the association. For example, this association uses two such options: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, dependent: :delete_all, validate: false +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, dependent: :delete_all, validate: false end ``` @@ -1612,11 +1612,11 @@ If you set the `:autosave` option to `true`, Rails will save any loaded members ##### `:class_name` -If the name of the other model cannot be derived from the association name, you can use the `:class_name` option to supply the model name. For example, if a customer has many orders, but the actual name of the model containing orders is `Transaction`, you'd set things up this way: +If the name of the other model cannot be derived from the association name, you can use the `:class_name` option to supply the model name. For example, if an author has many books, but the actual name of the model containing books is `Transaction`, you'd set things up this way: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, class_name: "Transaction" +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, class_name: "Transaction" end ``` @@ -1639,8 +1639,8 @@ Controls what happens to the associated objects when their owner is destroyed: By convention, Rails assumes that the column used to hold the foreign key on the other model is the name of this model with the suffix `_id` added. The `:foreign_key` option lets you set the name of the foreign key directly: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, foreign_key: "cust_id" +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, foreign_key: "cust_id" end ``` @@ -1651,12 +1651,12 @@ TIP: In any case, Rails will not create foreign key columns for you. You need to The `:inverse_of` option specifies the name of the `belongs_to` association that is the inverse of this association. Does not work in combination with the `:through` or `:as` options. ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, inverse_of: :customer +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, inverse_of: :author end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer, inverse_of: :orders +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author, inverse_of: :books end ``` @@ -1700,8 +1700,8 @@ If you set the `:validate` option to `false`, then associated objects will not b There may be times when you wish to customize the query used by `has_many`. Such customizations can be achieved via a scope block. For example: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, -> { where processed: true } +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, -> { where processed: true } end ``` @@ -1723,22 +1723,22 @@ You can use any of the standard [querying methods](active_record_querying.html) The `where` method lets you specify the conditions that the associated object must meet. ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :confirmed_orders, -> { where "confirmed = 1" }, - class_name: "Order" +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :confirmed_books, -> { where "confirmed = 1" }, + class_name: "Book" end ``` You can also set conditions via a hash: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :confirmed_orders, -> { where confirmed: true }, - class_name: "Order" +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :confirmed_books, -> { where confirmed: true }, + class_name: "Book" end ``` -If you use a hash-style `where` option, then record creation via this association will be automatically scoped using the hash. In this case, using `@customer.confirmed_orders.create` or `@customer.confirmed_orders.build` will create orders where the confirmed column has the value `true`. +If you use a hash-style `where` option, then record creation via this association will be automatically scoped using the hash. In this case, using `@author.confirmed_books.create` or `@author.confirmed_books.build` will create books where the confirmed column has the value `true`. ##### `extending` @@ -1749,9 +1749,9 @@ The `extending` method specifies a named module to extend the association proxy. The `group` method supplies an attribute name to group the result set by, using a `GROUP BY` clause in the finder SQL. ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :line_items, -> { group 'orders.id' }, - through: :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :line_items, -> { group 'books.id' }, + through: :books end ``` @@ -1760,34 +1760,34 @@ end You can use the `includes` method to specify second-order associations that should be eager-loaded when this association is used. For example, consider these models: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author has_many :line_items end class LineItem < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :order + belongs_to :book end ``` -If you frequently retrieve line items directly from customers (`@customer.orders.line_items`), then you can make your code somewhat more efficient by including line items in the association from customers to orders: +If you frequently retrieve line items directly from authors (`@author.books.line_items`), then you can make your code somewhat more efficient by including line items in the association from authors to books: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, -> { includes :line_items } +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, -> { includes :line_items } end -class Order < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :customer +class Book < ApplicationRecord + belongs_to :author has_many :line_items end class LineItem < ApplicationRecord - belongs_to :order + belongs_to :book end ``` @@ -1796,10 +1796,10 @@ end The `limit` method lets you restrict the total number of objects that will be fetched through an association. ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :recent_orders, - -> { order('order_date desc').limit(100) }, - class_name: "Order", +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :recent_books, + -> { order('published_at desc').limit(100) }, + class_name: "Book", end ``` @@ -1812,8 +1812,8 @@ The `offset` method lets you specify the starting offset for fetching objects vi The `order` method dictates the order in which associated objects will be received (in the syntax used by an SQL `ORDER BY` clause). ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, -> { order "date_confirmed DESC" } +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, -> { order "date_confirmed DESC" } end ``` @@ -1872,11 +1872,21 @@ If you want to make sure that, upon insertion, all of the records in the persisted association are distinct (so that you can be sure that when you inspect the association that you will never find duplicate records), you should add a unique index on the table itself. For example, if you have a table named -`person_articles` and you want to make sure all the articles are unique, you could -add the following in a migration: +`readings` and you want to make sure the articles can only be added to a person once, +you could add the following in a migration: ```ruby -add_index :person_articles, :article, unique: true +add_index :readings, [:person_id, :article_id], unique: true +``` + +Once you have this unique index, attempting to add the article to a person twice +will raise an `ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique` error: + +```ruby +person = Person.create(name: 'Honda') +article = Article.create(name: 'a1') +person.articles << article +person.articles << article # => ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique ``` Note that checking for uniqueness using something like `include?` is subject @@ -2271,10 +2281,10 @@ Association callbacks are similar to normal callbacks, but they are triggered by You define association callbacks by adding options to the association declaration. For example: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, before_add: :check_credit_limit +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, before_add: :check_credit_limit - def check_credit_limit(order) + def check_credit_limit(book) ... end end @@ -2285,15 +2295,15 @@ Rails passes the object being added or removed to the callback. You can stack callbacks on a single event by passing them as an array: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, before_add: [:check_credit_limit, :calculate_shipping_charges] - def check_credit_limit(order) + def check_credit_limit(book) ... end - def calculate_shipping_charges(order) + def calculate_shipping_charges(book) ... end end @@ -2306,10 +2316,10 @@ If a `before_add` callback throws an exception, the object does not get added to You're not limited to the functionality that Rails automatically builds into association proxy objects. You can also extend these objects through anonymous modules, adding new finders, creators, or other methods. For example: ```ruby -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders do - def find_by_order_prefix(order_number) - find_by(region_id: order_number[0..2]) +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books do + def find_by_book_prefix(book_number) + find_by(category_id: book_number[0..2]) end end end @@ -2324,8 +2334,8 @@ module FindRecentExtension end end -class Customer < ApplicationRecord - has_many :orders, -> { extending FindRecentExtension } +class Author < ApplicationRecord + has_many :books, -> { extending FindRecentExtension } end class Supplier < ApplicationRecord diff --git a/guides/source/command_line.md b/guides/source/command_line.md index eb9bf3fa18..f33e729de0 100644 --- a/guides/source/command_line.md +++ b/guides/source/command_line.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ There are a few commands that are absolutely critical to your everyday usage of * `rails console` * `rails server` -* `rake` +* `bin/rails` * `rails generate` * `rails dbconsole` * `rails new app_name` @@ -55,20 +55,21 @@ Rails will set you up with what seems like a huge amount of stuff for such a tin ### `rails server` -The `rails server` command launches a small web server named WEBrick which comes bundled with Ruby. You'll use this any time you want to access your application through a web browser. +The `rails server` command launches a web server named Puma which comes bundled with Rails. You'll use this any time you want to access your application through a web browser. With no further work, `rails server` will run our new shiny Rails app: ```bash $ cd commandsapp $ bin/rails server -=> Booting WEBrick -=> Rails 5.0.0 application starting in development on http://localhost:3000 +=> Booting Puma +=> Rails 5.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Run `rails server -h` for more startup options => Ctrl-C to shutdown server -[2013-08-07 02:00:01] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 -[2013-08-07 02:00:01] INFO ruby 2.2.2 (2015-06-27) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0] -[2013-08-07 02:00:01] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=69680 port=3000 +Puma 2.15.3 starting... +* Min threads: 0, max threads: 16 +* Environment: development +* Listening on tcp://localhost:3000 ``` With just three commands we whipped up a Rails server listening on port 3000. Go to your browser and open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000), you will see a basic Rails app running. @@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ Fire up your server using `rails server`. ```bash $ bin/rails server -=> Booting WEBrick... +=> Booting Puma... ``` The URL will be [http://localhost:3000/greetings/hello](http://localhost:3000/greetings/hello). @@ -250,10 +251,10 @@ $ bin/rails generate scaffold HighScore game:string score:integer The generator checks that there exist the directories for models, controllers, helpers, layouts, functional and unit tests, stylesheets, creates the views, controller, model and database migration for HighScore (creating the `high_scores` table and fields), takes care of the route for the **resource**, and new tests for everything. -The migration requires that we **migrate**, that is, run some Ruby code (living in that `20130717151933_create_high_scores.rb`) to modify the schema of our database. Which database? The SQLite3 database that Rails will create for you when we run the `rake db:migrate` command. We'll talk more about Rake in-depth in a little while. +The migration requires that we **migrate**, that is, run some Ruby code (living in that `20130717151933_create_high_scores.rb`) to modify the schema of our database. Which database? The SQLite3 database that Rails will create for you when we run the `bin/rails db:migrate` command. We'll talk more about bin/rails in-depth in a little while. ```bash -$ bin/rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate == CreateHighScores: migrating =============================================== -- create_table(:high_scores) -> 0.0017s @@ -375,37 +376,56 @@ $ bin/rails destroy model Oops remove test/fixtures/oops.yml ``` -Rake ----- +bin/rails +--------- -Rake is Ruby Make, a standalone Ruby utility that replaces the Unix utility 'make', and uses a 'Rakefile' and `.rake` files to build up a list of tasks. In Rails, Rake is used for common administration tasks, especially sophisticated ones that build off of each other. +Since Rails 5.0+ has rake commands built into the rails executable, `bin/rails` is the new default for running commands. -You can get a list of Rake tasks available to you, which will often depend on your current directory, by typing `rake --tasks`. Each task has a description, and should help you find the thing you need. - -To get the full backtrace for running rake task you can pass the option `--trace` to command line, for example `rake db:create --trace`. +You can get a list of bin/rails tasks available to you, which will often depend on your current directory, by typing `bin/rails --help`. Each task has a description, and should help you find the thing you need. ```bash -$ bin/rake --tasks -rake about # List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment -rake assets:clean # Remove old compiled assets -rake assets:clobber # Remove compiled assets -rake assets:precompile # Compile all the assets named in config.assets.precompile -rake db:create # Create the database from config/database.yml for the current Rails.env +$ bin/rails --help +Usage: rails COMMAND [ARGS] + +The most common rails commands are: +generate Generate new code (short-cut alias: "g") +console Start the Rails console (short-cut alias: "c") +server Start the Rails server (short-cut alias: "s") +... + +All commands can be run with -h (or --help) for more information. + +In addition to those commands, there are: +about List versions of all Rails ... +assets:clean[keep] Remove old compiled assets +assets:clobber Remove compiled assets +assets:environment Load asset compile environment +assets:precompile Compile all the assets ... ... -rake log:clear # Truncates all *.log files in log/ to zero bytes (specify which logs with LOGS=test,development) -rake middleware # Prints out your Rack middleware stack +db:fixtures:load Loads fixtures into the ... +db:migrate Migrate the database ... +db:migrate:status Display status of migrations +db:rollback Rolls the schema back to ... +db:schema:cache:clear Clears a db/schema_cache.dump file +db:schema:cache:dump Creates a db/schema_cache.dump file +db:schema:dump Creates a db/schema.rb file ... +db:schema:load Loads a schema.rb file ... +db:seed Loads the seed data ... +db:structure:dump Dumps the database structure ... +db:structure:load Recreates the databases ... +db:version Retrieves the current schema ... ... -rake tmp:clear # Clear cache and socket files from tmp/ (narrow w/ tmp:cache:clear, tmp:sockets:clear) -rake tmp:create # Creates tmp directories for cache, sockets, and pids +restart Restart app by touching ... +tmp:create Creates tmp directories ... ``` -INFO: You can also use `rake -T` to get the list of tasks. +INFO: You can also use `bin/rails -T` to get the list of tasks. ### `about` -`rake about` gives information about version numbers for Ruby, RubyGems, Rails, the Rails subcomponents, your application's folder, the current Rails environment name, your app's database adapter, and schema version. It is useful when you need to ask for help, check if a security patch might affect you, or when you need some stats for an existing Rails installation. +`bin/rails about` gives information about version numbers for Ruby, RubyGems, Rails, the Rails subcomponents, your application's folder, the current Rails environment name, your app's database adapter, and schema version. It is useful when you need to ask for help, check if a security patch might affect you, or when you need some stats for an existing Rails installation. ```bash -$ bin/rake about +$ bin/rails about About your application's environment Rails version 5.0.0 Ruby version 2.2.2 (x86_64-linux) @@ -421,22 +441,22 @@ Database schema version 20110805173523 ### `assets` -You can precompile the assets in `app/assets` using `rake assets:precompile`, and remove older compiled assets using `rake assets:clean`. The `assets:clean` task allows for rolling deploys that may still be linking to an old asset while the new assets are being built. +You can precompile the assets in `app/assets` using `bin/rails assets:precompile`, and remove older compiled assets using `bin/rails assets:clean`. The `assets:clean` task allows for rolling deploys that may still be linking to an old asset while the new assets are being built. -If you want to clear `public/assets` completely, you can use `rake assets:clobber`. +If you want to clear `public/assets` completely, you can use `bin/rails assets:clobber`. ### `db` -The most common tasks of the `db:` Rake namespace are `migrate` and `create`, and it will pay off to try out all of the migration rake tasks (`up`, `down`, `redo`, `reset`). `rake db:version` is useful when troubleshooting, telling you the current version of the database. +The most common tasks of the `db:` bin/rails namespace are `migrate` and `create`, and it will pay off to try out all of the migration bin/rails tasks (`up`, `down`, `redo`, `reset`). `bin/rails db:version` is useful when troubleshooting, telling you the current version of the database. More information about migrations can be found in the [Migrations](active_record_migrations.html) guide. ### `notes` -`rake notes` will search through your code for comments beginning with FIXME, OPTIMIZE or TODO. The search is done in files with extension `.builder`, `.rb`, `.rake`, `.yml`, `.yaml`, `.ruby`, `.css`, `.js` and `.erb` for both default and custom annotations. +`bin/rails notes` will search through your code for comments beginning with FIXME, OPTIMIZE or TODO. The search is done in files with extension `.builder`, `.rb`, `.rake`, `.yml`, `.yaml`, `.ruby`, `.css`, `.js` and `.erb` for both default and custom annotations. ```bash -$ bin/rake notes +$ bin/rails notes (in /home/foobar/commandsapp) app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb: * [ 20] [TODO] any other way to do this? @@ -453,10 +473,10 @@ You can add support for new file extensions using `config.annotations.register_e config.annotations.register_extensions("scss", "sass", "less") { |annotation| /\/\/\s*(#{annotation}):?\s*(.*)$/ } ``` -If you are looking for a specific annotation, say FIXME, you can use `rake notes:fixme`. Note that you have to lower case the annotation's name. +If you are looking for a specific annotation, say FIXME, you can use `bin/rails notes:fixme`. Note that you have to lower case the annotation's name. ```bash -$ bin/rake notes:fixme +$ bin/rails notes:fixme (in /home/foobar/commandsapp) app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb: * [132] high priority for next deploy @@ -465,10 +485,10 @@ app/models/school.rb: * [ 17] ``` -You can also use custom annotations in your code and list them using `rake notes:custom` by specifying the annotation using an environment variable `ANNOTATION`. +You can also use custom annotations in your code and list them using `bin/rails notes:custom` by specifying the annotation using an environment variable `ANNOTATION`. ```bash -$ bin/rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=BUG +$ bin/rails notes:custom ANNOTATION=BUG (in /home/foobar/commandsapp) app/models/article.rb: * [ 23] Have to fix this one before pushing! @@ -476,11 +496,11 @@ app/models/article.rb: NOTE. When using specific annotations and custom annotations, the annotation name (FIXME, BUG etc) is not displayed in the output lines. -By default, `rake notes` will look in the `app`, `config`, `db`, `lib` and `test` directories. If you would like to search other directories, you can provide them as a comma separated list in an environment variable `SOURCE_ANNOTATION_DIRECTORIES`. +By default, `rails notes` will look in the `app`, `config`, `db`, `lib` and `test` directories. If you would like to search other directories, you can provide them as a comma separated list in an environment variable `SOURCE_ANNOTATION_DIRECTORIES`. ```bash $ export SOURCE_ANNOTATION_DIRECTORIES='spec,vendor' -$ bin/rake notes +$ bin/rails notes (in /home/foobar/commandsapp) app/models/user.rb: * [ 35] [FIXME] User should have a subscription at this point @@ -490,7 +510,7 @@ spec/models/user_spec.rb: ### `routes` -`rake routes` will list all of your defined routes, which is useful for tracking down routing problems in your app, or giving you a good overview of the URLs in an app you're trying to get familiar with. +`rails routes` will list all of your defined routes, which is useful for tracking down routing problems in your app, or giving you a good overview of the URLs in an app you're trying to get familiar with. ### `test` @@ -504,16 +524,16 @@ The `Rails.root/tmp` directory is, like the *nix /tmp directory, the holding pla The `tmp:` namespaced tasks will help you clear and create the `Rails.root/tmp` directory: -* `rake tmp:cache:clear` clears `tmp/cache`. -* `rake tmp:sockets:clear` clears `tmp/sockets`. -* `rake tmp:clear` clears all cache and sockets files. -* `rake tmp:create` creates tmp directories for cache, sockets and pids. +* `rails tmp:cache:clear` clears `tmp/cache`. +* `rails tmp:sockets:clear` clears `tmp/sockets`. +* `rails tmp:clear` clears all cache and sockets files. +* `rails tmp:create` creates tmp directories for cache, sockets and pids. ### Miscellaneous -* `rake stats` is great for looking at statistics on your code, displaying things like KLOCs (thousands of lines of code) and your code to test ratio. -* `rake secret` will give you a pseudo-random key to use for your session secret. -* `rake time:zones:all` lists all the timezones Rails knows about. +* `rails stats` is great for looking at statistics on your code, displaying things like KLOCs (thousands of lines of code) and your code to test ratio. +* `rails secret` will give you a pseudo-random key to use for your session secret. +* `rails time:zones:all` lists all the timezones Rails knows about. ### Custom Rake Tasks @@ -551,9 +571,9 @@ end Invocation of the tasks will look like: ```bash -$ bin/rake task_name -$ bin/rake "task_name[value 1]" # entire argument string should be quoted -$ bin/rake db:nothing +$ bin/rails task_name +$ bin/rails "task_name[value 1]" # entire argument string should be quoted +$ bin/rails db:nothing ``` NOTE: If your need to interact with your application models, perform database queries and so on, your task should depend on the `environment` task, which will load your application code. diff --git a/guides/source/configuring.md b/guides/source/configuring.md index 47acff7c3f..8a21d4062a 100644 --- a/guides/source/configuring.md +++ b/guides/source/configuring.md @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ application. Accepts a valid week day symbol (e.g. `:monday`). you don't want shown in the logs, such as passwords or credit card numbers. New applications filter out passwords by adding the following `config.filter_parameters+=[:password]` in `config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb`. -* `config.force_ssl` forces all requests to be under HTTPS protocol by using `ActionDispatch::SSL` middleware. +* `config.force_ssl` forces all requests to be served over HTTPS by using the `ActionDispatch::SSL` middleware. This can be configured by setting `config.ssl_options` - see the [ActionDispatch::SSL documentation](http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/SSL.html) for details. * `config.log_formatter` defines the formatter of the Rails logger. This option defaults to an instance of `ActiveSupport::Logger::SimpleFormatter` for all modes except production, where it defaults to `Logger::Formatter`. @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ The full set of methods that can be used in this block are as follows: Every Rails application comes with a standard set of middleware which it uses in this order in the development environment: -* `ActionDispatch::SSL` forces every request to be under HTTPS protocol. Will be available if `config.force_ssl` is set to `true`. Options passed to this can be configured by using `config.ssl_options`. +* `ActionDispatch::SSL` forces every request to be served using HTTPS. Enabled if `config.force_ssl` is set to `true`. Options passed to this can be configured by setting `config.ssl_options`. * `ActionDispatch::Static` is used to serve static assets. Disabled if `config.public_file_server.enabled` is `false`. Set `config.public_file_server.index_name` if you need to serve a static directory index file that is not named `index`. For example, to serve `main.html` instead of `index.html` for directory requests, set `config.public_file_server.index_name` to `"main"`. * `Rack::Lock` wraps the app in mutex so it can only be called by a single thread at a time. Only enabled when `config.cache_classes` is `false`. * `ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache` serves as a basic memory backed cache. This cache is not thread safe and is intended only for serving as a temporary memory cache for a single thread. @@ -335,8 +335,6 @@ The schema dumper adds one additional configuration option: * `config.action_controller.default_static_extension` configures the extension used for cached pages. Defaults to `.html`. -* `config.action_controller.default_charset` specifies the default character set for all renders. The default is "utf-8". - * `config.action_controller.include_all_helpers` configures whether all view helpers are available everywhere or are scoped to the corresponding controller. If set to `false`, `UsersHelper` methods are only available for views rendered as part of `UsersController`. If `true`, `UsersHelper` methods are available everywhere. The default is `true`. * `config.action_controller.logger` accepts a logger conforming to the interface of Log4r or the default Ruby Logger class, which is then used to log information from Action Controller. Set to `nil` to disable logging. @@ -347,6 +345,8 @@ The schema dumper adds one additional configuration option: * `config.action_controller.forgery_protection_origin_check` configures whether the HTTP `Origin` header should be checked against the site's origin as an additional CSRF defense. +* `config.action_controller.per_form_csrf_tokens` configures whether CSRF tokens are only valid for the method/action they were generated for. + * `config.action_controller.relative_url_root` can be used to tell Rails that you are [deploying to a subdirectory](configuring.html#deploy-to-a-subdirectory-relative-url-root). The default is `ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT']`. * `config.action_controller.permit_all_parameters` sets all the parameters for mass assignment to be permitted by default. The default value is `false`. @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ The schema dumper adds one additional configuration option: } ``` +* `config.action_dispatch.default_charset` specifies the default character set for all renders. Defaults to `nil`. + * `config.action_dispatch.tld_length` sets the TLD (top-level domain) length for the application. Defaults to `1`. * `config.action_dispatch.http_auth_salt` sets the HTTP Auth salt value. Defaults @@ -483,7 +485,7 @@ There are a number of settings available on `config.action_mailer`: * `config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors` specifies whether to raise an error if email delivery cannot be completed. It defaults to true. -* `config.action_mailer.delivery_method` defines the delivery method and defaults to `:smtp`. See the [configuration section in the Action Mailer guide](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration) for more info. +* `config.action_mailer.delivery_method` defines the delivery method and defaults to `:smtp`. See the [configuration section in the Action Mailer guide](action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration) for more info. * `config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries` specifies whether mail will actually be delivered and is true by default. It can be convenient to set it to false for testing. @@ -1117,21 +1119,48 @@ NOTE. If you are running in a multi-threaded environment, there could be a chanc Custom configuration -------------------- -You can configure your own code through the Rails configuration object with custom configuration under the `config.x` property. It works like this: +You can configure your own code through the Rails configuration object with custom configuration. It works like this: ```ruby - config.x.payment_processing.schedule = :daily - config.x.payment_processing.retries = 3 - config.x.super_debugger = true + config.payment_processing.schedule = :daily + config.payment_processing.retries = 3 + config.super_debugger = true ``` These configuration points are then available through the configuration object: ```ruby - Rails.configuration.x.payment_processing.schedule # => :daily - Rails.configuration.x.payment_processing.retries # => 3 - Rails.configuration.x.super_debugger # => true - Rails.configuration.x.super_debugger.not_set # => nil + Rails.configuration.payment_processing.schedule # => :daily + Rails.configuration.payment_processing.retries # => 3 + Rails.configuration.super_debugger # => true + Rails.configuration.super_debugger.not_set # => nil + ``` + +You can also use `Rails::Application.config_for` to load whole configuration files: + + ```ruby + # config/payment.yml: + production: + environment: production + merchant_id: production_merchant_id + public_key: production_public_key + private_key: production_private_key + development: + environment: sandbox + merchant_id: development_merchant_id + public_key: development_public_key + private_key: development_private_key + + # config/application.rb + module MyApp + class Application < Rails::Application + config.payment = config_for(:payment) + end + end + ``` + + ```ruby + Rails.configuration.payment['merchant_id'] # => production_merchant_id or development_merchant_id ``` Search Engines Indexing diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md index ed88ecf6ac..cbc304c87f 100644 --- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ $ bundle exec rake test:sqlite3 You can now run the tests as you did for `sqlite3`. The tasks are respectively: ```bash -test:mysql test:mysql2 test:postgresql ``` diff --git a/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md b/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md index 0046ff7b4e..35ad6eb705 100644 --- a/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md +++ b/guides/source/debugging_rails_applications.md @@ -311,14 +311,14 @@ processing the entire request. For example: ```bash -=> Booting WEBrick +=> Booting Puma => Rails 5.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Run `rails server -h` for more startup options -=> Notice: server is listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0). Consider using 127.0.0.1 (--binding option) => Ctrl-C to shutdown server -[2014-04-11 13:11:47] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 -[2014-04-11 13:11:47] INFO ruby 2.2.2 (2015-04-13) [i686-linux] -[2014-04-11 13:11:47] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=6370 port=3000 +Puma 2.15.3 starting... +* Min threads: 0, max threads: 16 +* Environment: development +* Listening on tcp://localhost:3000 Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-04-11 13:11:48 +0200 diff --git a/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md b/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md index 4322f03d05..7beb8f72a9 100644 --- a/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md +++ b/guides/source/development_dependencies_install.md @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ $ bundle exec ruby -Itest path/to/test.rb -n test_name ### Active Record Setup -The test suite of Active Record attempts to run four times: once for SQLite3, once for each of the two MySQL gems (`mysql` and `mysql2`), and once for PostgreSQL. We are going to see now how to set up the environment for them. +Active Record's test suite runs three times: once for SQLite3, once for MySQL, and once for PostgreSQL. We are going to see now how to set up the environment for them. WARNING: If you're working with Active Record code, you _must_ ensure that the tests pass for at least MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. Subtle differences between the various adapters have been behind the rejection of many patches that looked OK when tested only against MySQL. diff --git a/guides/source/engines.md b/guides/source/engines.md index 8382bde4d3..697938434c 100644 --- a/guides/source/engines.md +++ b/guides/source/engines.md @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Finally, the assets for this resource are generated in two files: `app/assets/stylesheets/blorgh/articles.css`. You'll see how to use these a little later. -You can see what the engine has so far by running `rake db:migrate` at the root +You can see what the engine has so far by running `bin/rails db:migrate` at the root of our engine to run the migration generated by the scaffold generator, and then running `rails server` in `test/dummy`. When you open `http://localhost:3000/blorgh/articles` you will see the default scaffold that has @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ called `Blorgh::Comment`. Now run the migration to create our blorgh_comments table: ```bash -$ rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate ``` To show the comments on an article, edit `app/views/blorgh/articles/show.html.erb` and @@ -694,14 +694,14 @@ engine's models can query them correctly. To copy these migrations into the application run the following command from the `test/dummy` directory of your Rails engine: ```bash -$ rake blorgh:install:migrations +$ bin/rails blorgh:install:migrations ``` If you have multiple engines that need migrations copied over, use `railties:install:migrations` instead: ```bash -$ rake railties:install:migrations +$ bin/rails railties:install:migrations ``` This command, when run for the first time, will copy over all the migrations @@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ timestamp (`[timestamp_2]`) will be the current time plus a second. The reason for this is so that the migrations for the engine are run after any existing migrations in the application. -To run these migrations within the context of the application, simply run `rake +To run these migrations within the context of the application, simply run `bin/rails db:migrate`. When accessing the engine through `http://localhost:3000/blog`, the articles will be empty. This is because the table created inside the application is different from the one created within the engine. Go ahead, play around with the @@ -730,14 +730,14 @@ If you would like to run migrations only from one engine, you can do it by specifying `SCOPE`: ```bash -rake db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh +bin/rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh ``` This may be useful if you want to revert engine's migrations before removing it. To revert all migrations from blorgh engine you can run code such as: ```bash -rake db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh VERSION=0 +bin/rails db:migrate SCOPE=blorgh VERSION=0 ``` ### Using a Class Provided by the Application @@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ application: rails g model user name:string ``` -The `rake db:migrate` command needs to be run here to ensure that our +The `bin/rails db:migrate` command needs to be run here to ensure that our application has the `users` table for future use. Also, to keep it simple, the articles form will have a new text field called @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ This migration will need to be run on the application. To do that, it must first be copied using this command: ```bash -$ rake blorgh:install:migrations +$ bin/rails blorgh:install:migrations ``` Notice that only _one_ migration was copied over here. This is because the first @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ Copied migration [timestamp]_add_author_id_to_blorgh_articles.blorgh.rb from blo Run the migration using: ```bash -$ rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate ``` Now with all the pieces in place, an action will take place that will associate @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ need to require `admin.css` or `admin.js`. Only the gem's admin layout needs these assets. It doesn't make sense for the host app to include `"blorgh/admin.css"` in its stylesheets. In this situation, you should explicitly define these assets for precompilation. This tells sprockets to add -your engine assets when `rake assets:precompile` is triggered. +your engine assets when `bin/rails assets:precompile` is triggered. You can define assets for precompilation in `engine.rb`: diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 97c5f8b15d..9677ab1583 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ curve diving straight into Rails. There are several curated lists of online reso for learning Ruby: * [Official Ruby Programming Language website](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/) +* [List of Free Programming Books](https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#ruby) Be aware that some resources, while still excellent, cover versions of Ruby as old as 1.6, and commonly 1.8, and will not include some syntax that you will see in day-to-day @@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ commented line for new apps and you can uncomment if you need it. default to the `Gemfile` in apps generated under JRuby. You can investigate all the supported runtimes at [ExecJS](https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme). -This will fire up WEBrick, a web server distributed with Ruby by default. To see +This will fire up Puma, a web server distributed with Rails by default. To see your application in action, open a browser window and navigate to <http://localhost:3000>. You should see the Rails default information page: @@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do # The priority is based upon order of creation: # first created -> highest priority. - # See how all your routes lay out with "rake routes". + # See how all your routes lay out with "bin/rails routes". # # You can have the root of your site routed with "root" # root 'welcome#index' @@ -358,13 +359,13 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do end ``` -If you run `bin/rake routes`, you'll see that it has defined routes for all the +If you run `bin/rails routes`, you'll see that it has defined routes for all the standard RESTful actions. The meaning of the prefix column (and other columns) will be seen later, but for now notice that Rails has inferred the singular form `article` and makes meaningful use of the distinction. ```bash -$ bin/rake routes +$ bin/rails routes Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index POST /articles(.:format) articles#create @@ -558,10 +559,10 @@ this: In this example, the `articles_path` helper is passed to the `:url` option. To see what Rails will do with this, we look back at the output of -`bin/rake routes`: +`bin/rails routes`: ```bash -$ bin/rake routes +$ bin/rails routes Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index POST /articles(.:format) articles#create @@ -701,10 +702,10 @@ two timestamp fields to allow Rails to track article creation and update times. TIP: For more information about migrations, refer to [Rails Database Migrations] (migrations.html). -At this point, you can use a rake command to run the migration: +At this point, you can use a bin/rails command to run the migration: ```bash -$ bin/rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate ``` Rails will execute this migration command and tell you it created the Articles @@ -721,7 +722,7 @@ NOTE. Because you're working in the development environment by default, this command will apply to the database defined in the `development` section of your `config/database.yml` file. If you would like to execute migrations in another environment, for instance in production, you must explicitly pass it when -invoking the command: `bin/rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production`. +invoking the command: `bin/rails db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production`. ### Saving data in the controller @@ -808,7 +809,7 @@ If you submit the form again now, Rails will complain about not finding the `show` action. That's not very useful though, so let's add the `show` action before proceeding. -As we have seen in the output of `bin/rake routes`, the route for `show` action is +As we have seen in the output of `bin/rails routes`, the route for `show` action is as follows: ``` @@ -870,7 +871,7 @@ Visit <http://localhost:3000/articles/new> and give it a try! ### Listing all articles We still need a way to list all our articles, so let's do that. -The route for this as per output of `bin/rake routes` is: +The route for this as per output of `bin/rails routes` is: ``` articles GET /articles(.:format) articles#index @@ -1365,7 +1366,7 @@ Then do the same for the `app/views/articles/edit.html.erb` view: We're now ready to cover the "D" part of CRUD, deleting articles from the database. Following the REST convention, the route for -deleting articles as per output of `bin/rake routes` is: +deleting articles as per output of `bin/rails routes` is: ```ruby DELETE /articles/:id(.:format) articles#destroy @@ -1539,6 +1540,11 @@ This is very similar to the `Article` model that you saw earlier. The difference is the line `belongs_to :article`, which sets up an Active Record _association_. You'll learn a little about associations in the next section of this guide. +The (`:references`) keyword used in the bash command is a special data type for models. +It creates a new column on your database table with the provided model name appended with an `_id` +that can hold integer values. You can get a better understanding after analyzing the +`db/schema.rb` file below. + In addition to the model, Rails has also made a migration to create the corresponding database table: @@ -1561,7 +1567,7 @@ for it, and a foreign key constraint that points to the `id` column of the `arti table. Go ahead and run the migration: ```bash -$ bin/rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate ``` Rails is smart enough to only execute the migrations that have not already been diff --git a/guides/source/initialization.md b/guides/source/initialization.md index 7bf7eebb62..6232ef4c57 100644 --- a/guides/source/initialization.md +++ b/guides/source/initialization.md @@ -530,16 +530,17 @@ This file is responsible for requiring all the individual frameworks of Rails: require "rails" %w( - active_record - action_controller - action_view - action_mailer - active_job - rails/test_unit - sprockets -).each do |framework| + active_record/railtie + action_controller/railtie + action_view/railtie + action_mailer/railtie + active_job/railtie + action_cable/engine + rails/test_unit/railtie + sprockets/railtie +).each do |railtie| begin - require "#{framework}/railtie" + require "#{railtie}" rescue LoadError end end diff --git a/guides/source/layout.html.erb b/guides/source/layout.html.erb index 1005057ca9..1f81ea4694 100644 --- a/guides/source/layout.html.erb +++ b/guides/source/layout.html.erb @@ -24,20 +24,7 @@ <% end %> <div id="topNav"> <div class="wrapper"> - <strong class="more-info-label">More at <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">rubyonrails.org:</a> </strong> - <span class="red-button more-info-button"> - More Ruby on Rails - </span> - <ul class="more-info-links s-hidden"> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Overview</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/download">Download</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/deploy">Deploy</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails">Code</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts">Screencasts</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/documentation">Documentation</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/community">Community</a></li> - <li class="more-info"><a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/">Blog</a></li> - </ul> + <strong class="more-info-label">←<a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Back to rubyonrails.org:</a> </strong> </div> </div> <div id="header"> diff --git a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md index 9b7f916b9e..d55e1007ee 100644 --- a/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md +++ b/guides/source/layouts_and_rendering.md @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ TIP: This is useful when you're rendering a small snippet of HTML code. However, you might want to consider moving it to a template file if the markup is complex. -NOTE: This option will escape HTML entities if the string is not HTML safe. +NOTE: When using `html:` option, HTML entities will be escaped if the string is not marked as HTML safe by using `html_safe` method. #### Rendering JSON diff --git a/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md b/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md index 50308f505a..f99b6ebd31 100644 --- a/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md +++ b/guides/source/maintenance_policy.md @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ from. In special situations, where someone from the Core Team agrees to support more series, they are included in the list of supported series. -**Currently included series:** `4.2.Z`, `4.1.Z` (Supported by Rafael França). +**Currently included series:** `5.0.Z`. Security Issues --------------- @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ be built from 1.2.2, and then added to the end of 1-2-stable. This means that security releases are easy to upgrade to if you're running the latest version of Rails. -**Currently included series:** `4.2.Z`, `4.1.Z`. +**Currently included series:** `5.0.Z`, `4.2.Z`. Severe Security Issues ---------------------- @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ For severe security issues we will provide new versions as above, and also the last major release series will receive patches and new versions. The classification of the security issue is judged by the core team. -**Currently included series:** `4.2.Z`, `4.1.Z`, `3.2.Z`. +**Currently included series:** `5.0.Z`, `4.2.Z`. Unsupported Release Series -------------------------- diff --git a/guides/source/plugins.md b/guides/source/plugins.md index 68e54f2414..8f055f8fe3 100644 --- a/guides/source/plugins.md +++ b/guides/source/plugins.md @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ and migrating the database. First, run: ```bash $ cd test/dummy -$ bin/rake db:migrate +$ bin/rails db:migrate ``` While you are here, change the Hickwall and Wickwall models so that they know that they are supposed to act diff --git a/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md b/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md index edd54826cf..5a46baff2d 100644 --- a/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md +++ b/guides/source/rails_application_templates.md @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ $ rails new blog -m http://example.com/template.rb You can use the rake task `rails:template` to apply templates to an existing Rails application. The location of the template needs to be passed in to an environment variable named LOCATION. Again, this can either be path to a file or a URL. ```bash -$ bin/rake rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb -$ bin/rake rails:template LOCATION=http://example.com/template.rb +$ bin/rails rails:template LOCATION=~/template.rb +$ bin/rails rails:template LOCATION=http://example.com/template.rb ``` Template API diff --git a/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md b/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md index 273fbc08e2..934693252e 100644 --- a/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md +++ b/guides/source/rails_on_rack.md @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ NOTE: `ActionDispatch::MiddlewareStack` is Rails equivalent of `Rack::Builder`, Rails has a handy rake task for inspecting the middleware stack in use: ```bash -$ bin/rake middleware +$ bin/rails middleware ``` For a freshly generated Rails application, this might produce something like: @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ And now if you inspect the middleware stack, you'll find that `Rack::Lock` is not a part of it. ```bash -$ bin/rake middleware +$ bin/rails middleware (in /Users/lifo/Rails/blog) use ActionDispatch::Static use #<ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache::Middleware:0x00000001c304c8> diff --git a/guides/source/routing.md b/guides/source/routing.md index 9401132500..5a745b10cd 100644 --- a/guides/source/routing.md +++ b/guides/source/routing.md @@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ end NOTE: Request constraints work by calling a method on the [Request object](action_controller_overview.html#the-request-object) with the same name as the hash key and then compare the return value with the hash value. Therefore, constraint values should match the corresponding Request object method return type. For example: `constraints: { subdomain: 'api' }` will match an `api` subdomain as expected, however using a symbol `constraints: { subdomain: :api }` will not, because `request.subdomain` returns `'api'` as a String. +NOTE: There is an exception for the `format` constraint: while it's a method on the Request object, it's also an implicit optional parameter on every path. Segment constraints take precedence and the `format` constraint is only applied as such when enforced through a hash. For example, `get 'foo', constraints: { format: 'json' }` will match `GET /foo` because the format is optional by default. However, you can [use a lambda](#advanced-constraints) like in `get 'foo', constraints: lambda { |req| req.format == :json }` and the route will only match explicit JSON requests. + ### Advanced Constraints If you have a more advanced constraint, you can provide an object that responds to `matches?` that Rails should use. Let's say you wanted to route all users on a blacklist to the `BlacklistController`. You could do: @@ -1116,7 +1118,7 @@ Rails offers facilities for inspecting and testing your routes. ### Listing Existing Routes -To get a complete list of the available routes in your application, visit `http://localhost:3000/rails/info/routes` in your browser while your server is running in the **development** environment. You can also execute the `rake routes` command in your terminal to produce the same output. +To get a complete list of the available routes in your application, visit `http://localhost:3000/rails/info/routes` in your browser while your server is running in the **development** environment. You can also execute the `rails routes` command in your terminal to produce the same output. Both methods will list all of your routes, in the same order that they appear in `config/routes.rb`. For each route, you'll see: @@ -1125,7 +1127,7 @@ Both methods will list all of your routes, in the same order that they appear in * The URL pattern to match * The routing parameters for the route -For example, here's a small section of the `rake routes` output for a RESTful route: +For example, here's a small section of the `rails routes` output for a RESTful route: ``` users GET /users(.:format) users#index @@ -1137,10 +1139,10 @@ edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit You may restrict the listing to the routes that map to a particular controller setting the `CONTROLLER` environment variable: ```bash -$ CONTROLLER=users bin/rake routes +$ CONTROLLER=users bin/rails routes ``` -TIP: You'll find that the output from `rake routes` is much more readable if you widen your terminal window until the output lines don't wrap. +TIP: You'll find that the output from `rails routes` is much more readable if you widen your terminal window until the output lines don't wrap. ### Testing Routes diff --git a/guides/source/testing.md b/guides/source/testing.md index a4b62955c5..b5e49a41f4 100644 --- a/guides/source/testing.md +++ b/guides/source/testing.md @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ NOTE: Your tests are run under `RAILS_ENV=test`. ### Rails meets Minitest -If you remember when you used the `rails generate model` command from the +If you remember, we used the `rails generate model` command in the [Getting Started with Rails](getting_started.html) guide. We created our first -model among other things it created test stubs in the `test` directory: +model, and among other things it created test stubs in the `test` directory: ```bash $ bin/rails generate model article title:string body:text @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ A line by line examination of this file will help get you oriented to Rails test require 'test_helper' ``` -By requiring this file, `test_helper.rb` the default configuration to run our tests is loaded. We will include this with all the tests we write, so any methods added to this file are available to all your tests. +By requiring this file, `test_helper.rb` the default configuration to run our tests is loaded. We will include this with all the tests we write, so any methods added to this file are available to all our tests. ```ruby class ArticleTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase ``` -The `ArticleTest` class defines a _test case_ because it inherits from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. `ArticleTest` thus has all the methods available from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. Later in this guide, you'll see some of the methods it gives you. +The `ArticleTest` class defines a _test case_ because it inherits from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. `ArticleTest` thus has all the methods available from `ActiveSupport::TestCase`. Later in this guide, we'll see some of the methods it gives us. Any method defined within a class inherited from `Minitest::Test` (which is the superclass of `ActiveSupport::TestCase`) that begins with `test_` (case sensitive) is simply called a test. So, methods defined as `test_password` and `test_valid_password` are legal test names and are run automatically when the test case is run. @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ An assertion is a line of code that evaluates an object (or expression) for expe * does this line of code throw an exception? * is the user's password greater than 5 characters? -Every test must contain at least one assertion, with no restriction as to how many assertions are allowed. Only when all the assertions are successful will the test pass. +Every test may contain one or more assertions, with no restriction as to how many assertions are allowed. Only when all the assertions are successful will the test pass. #### Your first failing test @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ By now you've caught a glimpse of some of the assertions that are available. Ass Here's an extract of the assertions you can use with [`Minitest`](https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest), the default testing library used by Rails. The `[msg]` parameter is an optional string message you can -specify to make your test failure messages clearer. It's not required. +specify to make your test failure messages clearer. | Assertion | Purpose | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ specify to make your test failure messages clearer. It's not required. | `assert_not_operator( obj1, operator, [obj2], [msg] )` | Ensures that `obj1.operator(obj2)` is false.| | `assert_predicate ( obj, predicate, [msg] )` | Ensures that `obj.predicate` is true, e.g. `assert_predicate str, :empty?`| | `assert_not_predicate ( obj, predicate, [msg] )` | Ensures that `obj.predicate` is false, e.g. `assert_not_predicate str, :empty?`| -| `assert_send( array, [msg] )` | Ensures that executing the method listed in `array[1]` on the object in `array[0]` with the parameters of `array[2 and up]` is true. This one is weird eh?| +| `assert_send( array, [msg] )` | Ensures that executing the method listed in `array[1]` on the object in `array[0]` with the parameters of `array[2 and up]` is true, e.g. assert_send [@user, :full_name, 'Sam Smith']. This one is weird eh?| | `flunk( [msg] )` | Ensures failure. This is useful to explicitly mark a test that isn't finished yet.| The above are a subset of assertions that minitest supports. For an exhaustive & @@ -396,14 +396,14 @@ A dedicated test database allows you to set up and interact with test data in is In order to run your tests, your test database will need to have the current structure. The test helper checks whether your test database has any pending -migrations. If so, it will try to load your `db/schema.rb` or `db/structure.sql` +migrations. It will try to load your `db/schema.rb` or `db/structure.sql` into the test database. If migrations are still pending, an error will be raised. Usually this indicates that your schema is not fully migrated. Running -the migrations against the development database (`bin/rake db:migrate`) will +the migrations against the development database (`bin/rails db:migrate`) will bring the schema up to date. -NOTE: If existing migrations required modifications, the test database needs to -be rebuilt. This can be done by executing `bin/rake db:test:prepare`. +NOTE: If there were modifications to existing migrations, the test database needs to +be rebuilt. This can be done by executing `bin/rails db:test:prepare`. ### The Low-Down on Fixtures @@ -448,15 +448,15 @@ about: name: About # In fixtures/articles.yml -one: +first: title: Welcome to Rails! body: Hello world! category: about ``` -Notice the `category` key of the `one` article found in `fixtures/articles.yml` has a value of `about`. This tells Rails to load the category `about` found in `fixtures/categories.yml`. +Notice the `category` key of the `first` article found in `fixtures/articles.yml` has a value of `about`. This tells Rails to load the category `about` found in `fixtures/categories.yml`. -NOTE: For associations to reference one another by name, you cannot specify the `id:` attribute on the associated fixtures. Rails will auto assign a primary key to be consistent between runs. For more information on this association behavior please read the [Fixtures API documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/FixtureSet.html). +NOTE: For associations to reference one another by name, you can use the fixture name instead of specifying the `id:` attribute on the associated fixtures. Rails will auto assign a primary key to be consistent between runs. For more information on this association behavior please read the [Fixtures API documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/FixtureSet.html). #### ERB'in It Up @@ -524,9 +524,9 @@ Model tests don't have their own superclass like `ActionMailer::TestCase` instea Integration Testing ------------------- -Integration tests are used to test how various parts of your application interact. They are generally used to test important workflows within your application. +Integration tests are used to test how various parts of your application interact. They are generally used to test important workflows within our application. -For creating Rails integration tests, we use the 'test/integration' directory for your application. Rails provides a generator to create an integration test skeleton for you. +For creating Rails integration tests, we use the 'test/integration' directory for our application. Rails provides a generator to create an integration test skeleton for us. ```bash $ bin/rails generate integration_test user_flows @@ -546,17 +546,17 @@ class UserFlowsTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest end ``` -Inheriting from `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` comes with some advantages. This makes available some additional helpers to use in your integration tests. +Here the test is inheriting from `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest`. This makes some additional helpers available for us to use in our integration tests. ### Helpers Available for Integration Tests -In addition to the standard testing helpers, inheriting `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` comes with some additional helpers available when writing integration tests. Let's briefly introduce you to the three categories of helpers you get to choose from. +In addition to the standard testing helpers, inheriting from `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` comes with some additional helpers available when writing integration tests. Let's get briefly introduced to the three categories of helpers we get to choose from. For dealing with the integration test runner, see [`ActionDispatch::Integration::Runner`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Runner.html). -When performing requests, you will have [`ActionDispatch::Integration::RequestHelpers`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/RequestHelpers.html) available for your use. +When performing requests, we will have [`ActionDispatch::Integration::RequestHelpers`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/RequestHelpers.html) available for our use. -If you'd like to modify the session, or state of your integration test you should look for [`ActionDispatch::Integration::Session`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Session.html) to help. +If we need to modify the session, or state of our integration test, take a look at [`ActionDispatch::Integration::Session`](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Session.html) to help. ### Implementing an integration test @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ $ bin/rails generate integration_test blog_flow ``` It should have created a test file placeholder for us. With the output of the -previous command you should see: +previous command we should see: ```bash invoke test_unit @@ -589,9 +589,9 @@ class BlogFlowTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest end ``` -If you remember from earlier in the "Testing Views" section we covered `assert_select` to query the resulting HTML of a request. +We will take a look at `assert_select` to query the resulting HTML of a request in the "Testing Views" section below. It is used for testing the response of our request by asserting the presence of key HTML elements and their content. -When visit our root path, we should see `welcome/index.html.erb` rendered for the view. So this assertion should pass. +When we visit our root path, we should see `welcome/index.html.erb` rendered for the view. So this assertion should pass. #### Creating articles integration @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ The easiest way to see functional tests in action is to generate a controller scaffold: ```bash -$ bin/rails generate scaffold_controller article title:string body:test +$ bin/rails generate scaffold_controller article title:string body:text ... create app/controllers/articles_controller.rb ... |
