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-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile97
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile24
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile17
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/configuring.textile2
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile16
5 files changed, 153 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile
index bb1b3b5fd8..2c0b81121f 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/action_view_overview.textile
@@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ Computes the path to an image asset in the +public/images+ directory. Full paths
image_path("edit.png") # => /images/edit.png
</ruby>
+h5. image_url
+
+Computes the url to an image asset in the +public/images+ directory. This will call +image_path+ internally and merge with your current host or your asset host.
+
+<ruby>
+image_url("edit.png") # => http://www.example.com/images/edit.png
+</ruby>
+
h5. image_tag
Returns an html image tag for the source. The source can be a full path or a file that exists in your +public/images+ directory.
@@ -629,6 +637,14 @@ Computes the path to a JavaScript asset in the +public/javascripts+ directory. I
javascript_path "common" # => /javascripts/common.js
</ruby>
+h5. javascript_url
+
+Computes the url to a JavaScript asset in the +public/javascripts+ directory. This will call +javascript_path+ internally and merge with your current host or your asset host.
+
+<ruby>
+javascript_url "common" # => http://www.example.com/javascripts/common.js
+</ruby>
+
h5. stylesheet_link_tag
Returns a stylesheet link tag for the sources specified as arguments. If you don't specify an extension, +.css+ will be appended automatically.
@@ -659,6 +675,14 @@ Computes the path to a stylesheet asset in the +public/stylesheets+ directory. I
stylesheet_path "application" # => /stylesheets/application.css
</ruby>
+h5. stylesheet_url
+
+Computes the url to a stylesheet asset in the +public/stylesheets+ directory. This will call +stylesheet_path+ internally and merge with your current host or your asset host.
+
+<ruby>
+stylesheet_url "application" # => http://www.example.com/stylesheets/application.css
+</ruby>
+
h4. AtomFeedHelper
h5. atom_feed
@@ -1124,6 +1148,79 @@ If <tt>@post.author_id</tt> is 1, this would return:
</select>
</html>
+h5. collection_radio_buttons
+
+Returns +radio_button+ tags for the collection of existing return values of +method+ for +object+'s class.
+
+Example object structure for use with this method:
+
+<ruby>
+class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+ belongs_to :author
+end
+
+class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
+ has_many :posts
+ def name_with_initial
+ "#{first_name.first}. #{last_name}"
+ end
+end
+</ruby>
+
+Sample usage (selecting the associated Author for an instance of Post, +@post+):
+
+<ruby>
+collection_radio_buttons(:post, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
+</ruby>
+
+If <tt>@post.author_id</tt> is 1, this would return:
+
+<html>
+<input id="post_author_id_1" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="1" checked="checked" />
+<label for="post_author_id_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
+<input id="post_author_id_2" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="2" />
+<label for="post_author_id_2">D. Thomas</label>
+<input id="post_author_id_3" name="post[author_id]" type="radio" value="3" />
+<label for="post_author_id_3">M. Clark</label>
+</html>
+
+h5. collection_check_boxes
+
+Returns +check_box+ tags for the collection of existing return values of +method+ for +object+'s class.
+
+Example object structure for use with this method:
+
+<ruby>
+class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+ has_and_belongs_to_many :author
+end
+
+class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
+ has_and_belongs_to_many :posts
+ def name_with_initial
+ "#{first_name.first}. #{last_name}"
+ end
+end
+</ruby>
+
+Sample usage (selecting the associated Authors for an instance of Post, +@post+):
+
+<ruby>
+collection_check_boxes(:post, :author_ids, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial)
+</ruby>
+
+If <tt>@post.author_ids</tt> is [1], this would return:
+
+<html>
+<input id="post_author_ids_1" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" />
+<label for="post_author_ids_1">D. Heinemeier Hansson</label>
+<input id="post_author_ids_2" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="2" />
+<label for="post_author_ids_2">D. Thomas</label>
+<input id="post_author_ids_3" name="post[author_ids][]" type="checkbox" value="3" />
+<label for="post_author_ids_3">M. Clark</label>
+<input name="post[author_ids][]" type="hidden" value="" />
+</html>
+
h5. country_options_for_select
Returns a string of option tags for pretty much any country in the world.
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile
index 3b4f2befda..21bbc64255 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile
@@ -608,6 +608,30 @@ SELECT * FROM clients WHERE orders_count > 10 ORDER BY clients.id DESC
This method accepts *no* arguments.
+h3. Null Relation
+
+The +none+ method returns a chainable relation with no records. Any subsequent conditions chained to the returned relation will continue generating empty relations. This is useful in scenarios where you need a chainable response to a method or a scope that could return zero results.
+
+<ruby>
+Post.none # returns an empty Relation and fires no queries.
+</ruby>
+
+<ruby>
+# The visible_posts method below is expected to return a Relation.
+@posts = current_user.visible_posts.where(:name => params[:name])
+
+def visible_posts
+ case role
+ when 'Country Manager'
+ Post.where(:country => country)
+ when 'Reviewer'
+ Post.published
+ when 'Bad User'
+ Post.none # => returning [] or nil breaks the caller code in this case
+ end
+end
+</ruby>
+
h3. Readonly Objects
Active Record provides +readonly+ method on a relation to explicitly disallow modification of any of the returned objects. Any attempt to alter a readonly record will not succeed, raising an +ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord+ exception.
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
index c30902c237..61fdb5ccc6 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
@@ -1872,9 +1872,24 @@ The method +multiple_of?+ tests whether an integer is multiple of the argument:
NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/integer/multiple.rb+.
+h4. +ordinal+
+
+The method +ordinal+ returns the ordinal suffix string corresponding to the receiver integer:
+
+<ruby>
+1.ordinal # => "st"
+2.ordinal # => "nd"
+53.ordinal # => "rd"
+2009.ordinal # => "th"
+-21.ordinal # => "st"
+-134.ordinal # => "th"
+</ruby>
+
+NOTE: Defined in +active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb+.
+
h4. +ordinalize+
-The method +ordinalize+ returns the ordinal string corresponding to the receiver integer:
+The method +ordinalize+ returns the ordinal string corresponding to the receiver integer. In comparison, note that the +ordinal+ method returns *only* the suffix string.
<ruby>
1.ordinalize # => "1st"
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile
index 7e715ff79f..95f93101ab 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile
@@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ h4. Configuring Active Record
* +config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds+ configures the threshold for automatic EXPLAINs (+nil+ disables this feature). Queries exceeding the threshold get their query plan logged. Default is 0.5 in development mode.
+* +config.active_record.dependent_restrict_raises+ will control the behavior when an object with a <tt>:dependent => :restrict</tt> association is deleted. Setting this to false will prevent +DeleteRestrictionError+ from being raised and instead will add an error on the model object. Defaults to false in the development mode.
+
The MySQL adapter adds one additional configuration option:
* +ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter.emulate_booleans+ controls whether Active Record will consider all +tinyint(1)+ columns in a MySQL database to be booleans and is true by default.
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile b/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
index 29aefd25f8..f3c8fa654d 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ The guides and the API should be coherent where appropriate. Please have a look
Those guidelines apply also to guides.
-h3. HTML Generation
+h3. HTML Guides
+
+h4. Generation
To generate all the guides, just +cd+ into the +railties+ directory and execute:
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ If you want to generate guides in languages other than English, you can keep the
bundle exec rake generate_guides GUIDES_LANGUAGE=es
</plain>
-h3. HTML Validation
+h4. Validation
Please validate the generated HTML with:
@@ -77,3 +79,13 @@ bundle exec rake validate_guides
</plain>
Particularly, titles get an ID generated from their content and this often leads to duplicates. Please set +WARNINGS=1+ when generating guides to detect them. The warning messages suggest a way to fix them.
+
+h3. Kindle Guides
+
+h4. Generation
+
+To generate guides for the Kindle, you need to provide +KINDLE=1+ as an environment variable:
+
+<plain>
+KINDLE=1 bundle exec rake generate_guides
+</plain>