## Rails 3.2.4 (unreleased) ##
* Deprecate `:mouseover` options for `image_tag` helper. *Rafael Mendonça França*
* Deprecate `button_to_function` and `link_to_function` helpers. *Rafael Mendonça França*
## Rails 3.2.3 (March 30, 2012) ##
* Allow to lazy load `default_form_builder` by passing a `String` instead of a constant. *Piotr Sarnacki*
* Fix #5632, render :inline set the proper rendered format. *Santiago Pastorino*
* Fix textarea rendering when using plugins like HAML. Such plugins encode the first newline character in the content. This issue was introduced in https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/5191 *James Coleman*
* Remove the leading \n added by textarea on assert_select. *Santiago Pastorino*
* Add `config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms` (defaults to true) which allows to set if authenticity token will be included by default in remote forms. If you change it to false, you can still force authenticity token by passing `:authenticity_token => true` in form options *Piotr Sarnacki*
* Do not include the authenticity token in forms where remote: true as ajax forms use the meta-tag value *DHH*
* Turn off verbose mode of rack-cache, we still have X-Rack-Cache to
check that info. Closes #5245. *Santiago Pastorino*
* Fix #5238, rendered_format is not set when template is not rendered. *Piotr Sarnacki*
* Upgrade rack-cache to 1.2. *José Valim*
* ActionController::SessionManagement is deprecated. *Santiago Pastorino*
* Since the router holds references to many parts of the system like engines, controllers and the application itself, inspecting the route set can actually be really slow, therefore we default alias inspect to to_s. *José Valim*
* Add a new line after the textarea opening tag. Closes #393 *Rafael Mendonça França*
* Always pass a respond block from to responder. We should let the responder to decide what to do with the given overridden response block, and not short circuit it. *sikachu*
* Fixes layout rendering regression from 3.2.2. *José Valim*
## Rails 3.2.2 (March 1, 2012) ##
* Format lookup for partials is derived from the format in which the template is being rendered. Closes #5025 part 2 *Santiago Pastorino*
* Use the right format when a partial is missing. Closes #5025. *Santiago Pastorino*
* Default responder will now always use your overridden block in `respond_with` to render your response. *Prem Sichanugrist*
* check_box helper with :disabled => true will generate a disabled hidden field to conform with the HTML convention where disabled fields are not submitted with the form.
This is a behavior change, previously the hidden tag had a value of the disabled checkbox.
*Tadas Tamosauskas*
## Rails 3.2.1 (January 26, 2012) ##
* Documentation improvements.
* Allow `form.select` to accept ranges (regression). *Jeremy Walker*
* `datetime_select` works with -/+ infinity dates. *Joe Van Dyk*
## Rails 3.2.0 (January 20, 2012) ##
* Setting config.assets.logger to false turn off Sprockets logger *Guillermo Iguaran*
* Add `config.action_dispatch.default_charset` to configure default charset for ActionDispatch::Response. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Deprecate setting default charset at controller level, use the new `config.action_dispatch.default_charset` instead. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Deprecate ActionController::UnknownAction in favour of AbstractController::ActionNotFound. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Deprecate ActionController::DoubleRenderError in favour of AbstractController::DoubleRenderError. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Deprecate method_missing handling for not found actions, use action_missing instead. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Deprecate ActionController#rescue_action, ActionController#initialize_template_class, and ActionController#assign_shortcuts.
These methods were not being used internally anymore and are going to be removed in Rails 4. *Carlos Antonio da Silva*
* Add config.assets.logger to configure Sprockets logger *Rafael França*
* Use a BodyProxy instead of including a Module that responds to
close. Closes #4441 if Active Record is disabled assets are delivered
correctly *Santiago Pastorino*
* Rails initialization with initialize_on_precompile = false should set assets_dir *Santiago Pastorino*
* Add font_path helper method *Santiago Pastorino*
* Depends on rack ~> 1.4.0 *Santiago Pastorino*
* Add :gzip option to `caches_page`. The default option can be configured globally using `page_cache_compression` *Andrey Sitnik*
* The ShowExceptions middleware now accepts a exceptions application that is responsible to render an exception when the application fails. The application is invoked with a copy of the exception in `env["action_dispatch.exception"]` and with the PATH_INFO rewritten to the status code. *José Valim*
* Add `button_tag` support to ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder.
This support mimics the default behavior of `submit_tag`.
Example:
<%= form_for @post do |f| %>
<%= f.button %>
<% end %>
* Date helpers accept a new option, `:use_two_digit_numbers = true`, that renders select boxes for months and days with a leading zero without changing the respective values.
For example, this is useful for displaying ISO8601-style dates such as '2011-08-01'. *Lennart Fridén and Kim Persson*
* Make ActiveSupport::Benchmarkable a default module for ActionController::Base, so the #benchmark method is once again available in the controller context like it used to be *DHH*
* Deprecated implied layout lookup in controllers whose parent had a explicit layout set:
class ApplicationController
layout "application"
end
class PostsController < ApplicationController
end
In the example above, Posts controller will no longer automatically look up for a posts layout.
If you need this functionality you could either remove `layout "application"` from ApplicationController or explicitly set it to nil in PostsController. *José Valim*
* Rails will now use your default layout (such as "layouts/application") when you specify a layout with `:only` and `:except` condition, and those conditions fail. *Prem Sichanugrist*
For example, consider this snippet:
class CarsController
layout 'single_car', :only => :show
end
Rails will use 'layouts/single_car' when a request comes in `:show` action, and use 'layouts/application' (or 'layouts/cars', if exists) when a request comes in for any other actions.
* form_for with +:as+ option uses "#{action}_#{as}" as css class and id:
Before:
form_for(@user, :as => 'client') # => "
' from now on. *Rick Olson*
* Added block-usage to PrototypeHelper#form_remote_tag, document block-usage of FormTagHelper#form_tag *Rick Olson*
* Add a 0 margin/padding div around the hidden _method input tag that form_tag outputs. *Rick Olson*
* Added block-usage to TagHelper#content_tag [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
<% content_tag :div, :class => "strong" %>
Hello world!
<% end %>
Will output:
Hello world!
* Deprecated UrlHelper#link_to_image and UrlHelper#link_to :post => true #6409 *Bob Silva*
* Upgraded NumberHelper with number_to_phone support international formats to comply with ITU E.123 by supporting area codes with less than 3 digits, added precision argument to number_to_human_size (defaults to 1) #6421 *Bob Silva*
* Fixed that setting RAILS_ASSET_ID to "" should not add a trailing slash after assets #6454 *Bob Silva/chrismear*
* Force *_url named routes to show the host in ActionView *Rick Olson*
<%= url_for ... %> # no host
<%= foo_path %> # no host
<%= foo_url %> # host!
* Add support for converting blocks into function arguments to JavaScriptGenerator#call and JavaScriptProxy#call. *Sam Stephenson*
* Add JavaScriptGenerator#literal for wrapping a string in an object whose #to_json is the string itself. *Sam Stephenson*
* Add <%= escape_once html %> to escape html while leaving any currently escaped entities alone. Fix button_to double-escaping issue. *Rick Olson*
* Fix double-escaped entities, such as &, {, etc. *Rick Olson*
* Fix routing to correctly determine when generation fails. Closes #6300. [psross].
* Fix broken assert_generates when extra keys are being checked. *Jamis Buck*
* Replace KCODE checks with String#chars for truncate. Closes #6385 *Manfred Stienstra*
* Make page caching respect the format of the resource that is being requested even if the current route is the default route so that, e.g. posts.rss is not transformed by url_for to '/' and subsequently cached as '/index.html' when it should be cached as '/posts.rss'. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Use String#chars in TextHelper::excerpt. Closes #6386 *Manfred Stienstra*
* Fix relative URL root matching problems. *Mark Imbriaco*
* Fix filter skipping in controller subclasses. #5949, #6297, #6299 *Martin Emde*
* render_text may optionally append to the response body. render_javascript appends by default. This allows you to chain multiple render :update calls by setting @performed_render = false between them (awaiting a better public API). *Jeremy Kemper*
* Rename test assertion to prevent shadowing. Closes #6306. *psross*
* Fixed that NumberHelper#number_to_delimiter should respect precision of higher than two digits #6231 *Philip Hallstrom*
* Fixed that FormHelper#radio_button didn't respect an :id being passed in #6266 *evansj*
* Added an html_options hash parameter to javascript_tag() and update_page_tag() helpers #6311 [tzaharia]. Example:
update_page_tag :defer => 'true' { |page| ... }
Gives:
Which is needed for dealing with the IE6 DOM when it's not yet fully loaded.
* Fixed that rescue template path shouldn't be hardcoded, then it's easier to hook in your own #6295 *Mike Naberezny*
* Fixed escaping of backslashes in JavaScriptHelper#escape_javascript #6302 *sven@c3d2.de*
* Fixed that some 500 rescues would cause 500's themselves because the response had not yet been generated #6329 *cmselmer*
* respond_to :html doesn't assume .rhtml. #6281 *Hampton Catlin*
* Fixed some deprecation warnings in ActionPack *Rick Olson*
* assert_select_rjs decodes escaped unicode chars since the Javascript generators encode them. #6240 *japgolly*
* Deprecation: @cookies, @headers, @request, @response will be removed after 1.2. Use the corresponding method instead. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Make the :status parameter expand to the default message for that status code if it is an integer. Also support symbol statuses. [Jamis Buck]. Examples:
head :status => 404 # expands to "404 Not Found"
head :status => :not_found # expands to "404 Not Found"
head :status => :created # expands to "201 Created"
* Add head(options = {}) for responses that have no body. [Jamis Buck]. Examples:
head :status => 404 # return an empty response with a 404 status
head :location => person_path(@person), :status => 201
* Fix bug that kept any before_filter except the first one from being able to halt the before_filter chain. *Rick Olson*
* strip_links is case-insensitive. #6285 *tagoh, Bob Silva*
* Clear the cache of possible controllers whenever Routes are reloaded. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Filters overhaul including meantime filter support using around filters + blocks. #5949 *Martin Emde, Roman Le Negrate, Stefan Kaes, Jeremy Kemper*
* Update CGI process to allow sessions to contain namespaced models. Closes #4638. *dfelstead@site5.com*
* Fix routing to respect user provided requirements and defaults when assigning default routing options (such as :action => 'index'). Closes #5950. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Rescue Errno::ECONNRESET to handle an unexpectedly closed socket connection. Improves SCGI reliability. #3368, #6226 *sdsykes, fhanshaw@vesaria.com*
* Added that respond_to blocks will automatically set the content type to be the same as is requested [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render :text => "I'm being sent as text/html" }
format.rss { render :text => "I'm being sent as application/rss+xml" }
format.atom { render :text => "I'm being sent as application/xml", :content_type => Mime::XML }
end
* Added utf-8 as the default charset for all renders. You can change this default using ActionController::Base.default_charset=(encoding) *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added proper getters and setters for content type and charset [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example of what we used to do:
response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/atom+xml; charset=utf-8"
...now:
response.content_type = Mime::ATOM
response.charset = "utf-8"
* Declare file extensions exempt from layouts. #6219 *brandon*
Example: ActionController::Base.exempt_from_layout 'rpdf'
* Add chained replace/update support for assert_select_rjs *Rick Olson*
Given RJS like...
page['test1'].replace "
foo
"
page['test2'].replace_html "
foo
"
Test it with...
assert_select_rjs :chained_replace
assert_select_rjs :chained_replace, "test1"
assert_select_rjs :chained_replace_html
assert_select_rjs :chained_replace_html, "test2"
* Load helpers in alphabetical order for consistency. Resolve cyclic javascript_helper dependency. #6132, #6178 *choonkeat@gmail.com*
* Skip params with empty names, such as the &=Save query string from . #2569 *Manfred Stienstra, raphinou@yahoo.com*
* Fix assert_tag so that :content => "foo" does not match substrings, but only exact strings. Use :content => /foo/ to match substrings. #2799 *Eric Hodel*
* Update JavaScriptGenerator#show/hide/toggle/remove to new Prototype syntax for multiple ids, #6068 *petermichaux@gmail.com*
* Update UrlWriter to support :only_path. *Nicholas Seckar, Dave Thomas*
* Fixed JavaScriptHelper#link_to_function and JavaScriptHelper#button_to_function to have the script argument be optional [David Heinemeier Hansson]. So what used to require a nil, like this:
link_to("Hider", nil, :class => "hider_link") { |p| p[:something].hide }
...can be written like this:
link_to("Hider", :class => "hider_link") { |p| p[:something].hide }
* Added access to nested attributes in RJS #4548 [richcollins@gmail.com]. Examples:
page['foo']['style'] # => $('foo').style;
page['foo']['style']['color'] # => $('blank_slate').style.color;
page['foo']['style']['color'] = 'red' # => $('blank_slate').style.color = 'red';
page['foo']['style'].color = 'red' # => $('blank_slate').style.color = 'red';
* Fixed that AssetTagHelper#image_tag and others using compute_public_path should not modify the incoming source argument (closes #5102) *eule@space.ch*
* Deprecated the auto-appending of .png to AssetTagHelper#image_tag calls that doesn't have an extension *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Fixed FormOptionsHelper#select to respect :selected value #5813
* Fixed TextHelper#simple_format to deal with multiple single returns within a single paragraph #5835 *moriq@moriq.com*
* Fixed TextHelper#pluralize to handle 1 as a string #5909 *rails@bencurtis.com*
* Improved resolution of DateHelper#distance_of_time_in_words for better precision #5994 *Bob Silva*
* Changed that uncaught exceptions raised any where in the application will cause RAILS_ROOT/public/500.html to be read and shown instead of just the static "Application error (Rails)" *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added deprecation language for pagination which will become a plugin by Rails 2.0 *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added deprecation language for in_place_editor and auto_complete_field that both pieces will become plugins by Rails 2.0 *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Deprecated all of ActionController::Dependencies. All dependency loading is now handled from Active Support *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added assert_select* for CSS selector-based testing (deprecates assert_tag) #5936 *assaf.arkin@gmail.com*
* radio_button_tag generates unique id attributes. #3353 *Bob Silva, somekool@gmail.com*
* strip_tags passes through blank args such as nil or "". #2229, #6702 *duncan@whomwah.com, dharana*
* Cleanup assert_tag :children counting. #2181 *jamie@bravenet.com*
* button_to accepts :method so you can PUT and DELETE with it. #6005 *Dan Webb*
* Update sanitize text helper to strip plaintext tags, and . *Rick Olson*
* Add routing tests to assert that RoutingError is raised when conditions aren't met. Closes #6016 *Nathan Witmer*
* Make auto_link parse a greater subset of valid url formats. *Jamis Buck*
* Integration tests: headers beginning with X aren't excluded from the HTTP_ prefix, so X-Requested-With becomes HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH as expected. *Mike Clark*
* Switch to using FormEncodedPairParser for parsing request parameters. *Nicholas Seckar, David Heinemeier Hansson*
* respond_to .html now always renders #{action_name}.rhtml so that registered custom template handlers do not override it in priority. Custom mime types require a block and throw proper error now. *Tobias Lütke*
* Deprecation: test deprecated instance vars in partials. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Add UrlWriter to allow writing urls from Mailers and scripts. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Relax Routing's anchor pattern warning; it was preventing use of [^/] inside restrictions. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add controller_paths variable to Routing. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fix assert_redirected_to issue with named routes for module controllers. *Rick Olson*
* Tweak RoutingError message to show option diffs, not just missing named route significant keys. *Rick Olson*
* Invoke method_missing directly on hidden actions. Closes #3030. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add RoutingError exception when RouteSet fails to generate a path from a Named Route. *Rick Olson*
* Replace Reloadable with Reloadable::Deprecated. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Deprecation: check whether instance variables have been monkeyed with before assigning them to deprecation proxies. Raises a RuntimeError if so. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Add support for the param_name parameter to the auto_complete_field helper. #5026 *david.a.williams@gmail.com*
* Deprecation! @params, @session, @flash will be removed after 1.2. Use the corresponding instance methods instead. You'll get printed warnings during tests and logged warnings in dev mode when you access either instance variable directly. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Make Routing noisy when an anchor regexp is assigned to a segment. #5674 *François Beausoleil*
* Added months and years to the resolution of DateHelper#distance_of_time_in_words, such that "60 days ago" becomes "2 months ago" #5611 *pjhyett@gmail.com*
* Make controller_path available as an instance method. #5724 *jmckible@gmail.com*
* Update query parser to support adjacent hashes. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Make action caching aware of different formats for the same action so that, e.g. foo.xml is cached separately from foo.html. Implicitly set content type when reading in cached content with mime revealing extensions so the entire onous isn't on the webserver. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Restrict Request Method hacking with ?_method to POST requests. *Rick Olson*
* Fixed the new_#{resource}_url route and added named route tests for Simply Restful. *Rick Olson*
* Added map.resources from the Simply Restful plugin [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples (the API has changed to use plurals!):
map.resources :messages
map.resources :messages, :comments
map.resources :messages, :new => { :preview => :post }
* Fixed that integration simulation of XHRs should set Accept header as well *Edward Frederick*
* TestRequest#reset_session should restore a TestSession, not a hash *Michael Koziarski*
* Don't search a load-path of '.' for controller files *Jamis Buck*
* Update integration.rb to require test_process explicitly instead of via Dependencies. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed that you can still access the flash after the flash has been reset in reset_session. Closes #5584 *lmarlow*
* Allow form_for and fields_for to work with indexed form inputs. *Jeremy Kemper, Matt Lyon*
<% form_for 'post[]', @post do |f| -%>
<% end -%>
* Remove leak in development mode by replacing define_method with module_eval. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Provide support for decimal columns to form helpers. Closes #5672. *Dave Thomas*
* Pass :id => nil or :class => nil to error_messages_for to supress that html attribute. #3586 *olivier_ansaldi@yahoo.com*
* Reset @html_document between requests so assert_tag works. #4810 *Jarkko Laine, easleydp@gmail.com*
* Integration tests behave well with render_component. #4632 *edward.frederick@revolution.com, dev.rubyonrails@maxdunn.com*
* Added exception handling of missing layouts #5373 *chris@ozmm.org*
* Fixed that real files and symlinks should be treated the same when compiling templates #5438 *zachary@panandscan.com*
* Fixed that the flash should be reset when reset_session is called #5584 *Shugo Maeda*
* Added special case for "1 Byte" in NumberHelper#number_to_human_size #5593 *murpyh@rubychan.de*
* Fixed proper form-encoded parameter parsing for requests with "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" (note the presence of a charset directive) *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Add route_name_path method to generate only the path for a named routes. For example, map.person will add person_path. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Avoid naming collision among compiled view methods. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fix CGI extensions when they expect string but get nil in Windows. Closes #5276 *Mislav Marohnić*
* Determine the correct template_root for deeply nested components. #2841 *s.brink@web.de*
* Fix that routes with *path segments in the recall can generate URLs. *Rick Olson*
* Fix strip_links so that it doesn't hang on multiline tags *Jamis Buck*
* Remove problematic control chars in rescue template. #5316 *Stefan Kaes*
* Make sure passed routing options are not mutated by routing code. #5314 *Blair Zajac*
* Make sure changing the controller from foo/bar to bing/bang does not change relative to foo. *Jamis Buck*
* Escape the path before routing recognition. #3671
* Make sure :id and friends are unescaped properly. #5275 *me@julik.nl*
* Rewind readable CGI params so others may reread them (such as CGI::Session when passing the session id in a multipart form). #210 *mklame@atxeu.com, matthew@walker.wattle.id.au*
* Added Mime::TEXT (text/plain) and Mime::ICS (text/calendar) as new default types *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added Mime::Type.register(string, symbol, synonyms = []) for adding new custom mime types [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example: Mime::Type.register("image/gif", :gif)
* Added support for Mime objects in render :content_type option [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example: render :text => some_atom, :content_type => Mime::ATOM
* Add :status option to send_data and send_file. Defaults to '200 OK'. #5243 *Manfred Stienstra *
* Routing rewrite. Simpler, faster, easier to understand. The published API for config/routes.rb is unchanged, but nearly everything else is different, so expect breakage in plugins and libs that try to fiddle with routes. *Nicholas Seckar, Jamis Buck*
map.connect '/foo/:id', :controller => '...', :action => '...'
map.connect '/foo/:id.:format', :controller => '...', :action => '...'
map.connect '/foo/:id', ..., :conditions => { :method => :get }
* Cope with missing content type and length headers. Parse parameters from multipart and urlencoded request bodies only. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Accept multipart PUT parameters. #5235 *guy.naor@famundo.com*
* Added interrogation of params[:format] to determine Accept type. If :format is specified and matches a declared extension, like "rss" or "xml", that mime type will be put in front of the accept handler. This means you can link to the same action from different extensions and use that fact to determine output [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
def index
@posts = Post.find :all
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.xml { render :xml => @posts.to_xml }
format.rss { render :action => "feed.rxml" }
end
end
end
\# returns HTML when requested by a browser, since the browser
\# has the HTML mimetype at the top of its priority list
Accept: text/html
GET /weblog
\# returns the XML
Accept: application/xml
GET /weblog
\# returns the HTML
Accept: application/xml
GET /weblog.html
\# returns the XML
Accept: text/html
GET /weblog.xml
All this relies on the fact that you have a route that includes .:format.
* Expanded :method option in FormTagHelper#form_tag, FormHelper#form_for, PrototypeHelper#remote_form_for, PrototypeHelper#remote_form_tag, and PrototypeHelper#link_to_remote to allow for verbs other than GET and POST by automatically creating a hidden form field named _method, which will simulate the other verbs over post *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added :method option to UrlHelper#link_to, which allows for using other verbs than GET for the link. This replaces the :post option, which is now deprecated. Example: link_to "Destroy", person_url(:id => person), :method => :delete *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* follow_redirect doesn't complain about being redirected to the same controller. #5153 *dymo@mk.ukrtelecom.ua*
* Add layout attribute to response object with the name of the layout that was rendered, or nil if none rendered. *Kevin Clark*
* Fix NoMethodError when parsing params like &&. *Adam Greenfield*
* form.text_area handles the :size option just like the original text_area (:size => '60x10' becomes cols="60" rows="10"). *Jeremy Kemper*
* Excise ingrown code from FormOptionsHelper#options_for_select. #5008 *anonymous*
* Small fix in routing to allow dynamic routes (broken after [4242]) *Rick Olson*
map.connect '*path', :controller => 'files', :action => 'show'
* Use #flush between switching from #write to #syswrite. Closes #4907. *Blair Zajac *
* Allow error_messages_for to report errors for multiple objects, as well as support for customizing the name of the object in the error summary header. Closes #4186. *andrew@redlinesoftware.com, Marcel Molina Jr.*
error_messages_for :account, :user, :subscription, :object_name => :account
* Fix assert_redirected_to tests according to real-world usage. Also, don't fail if you add an extra :controller option: *Rick Olson*
redirect_to :action => 'new'
assert_redirected_to :controller => 'monkeys', :action => 'new'
* Diff compared routing options. Allow #assert_recognizes to take a second arg as a hash to specify optional request method *Rick Olson*
assert_recognizes({:controller => 'users', :action => 'index'}, 'users')
assert_recognizes({:controller => 'users', :action => 'create'}, {:path => 'users', :method => :post})
* Diff compared options with #assert_redirected_to *Rick Olson*
* Add support in routes for semicolon delimited "subpaths", like /books/:id;:action *Jamis Buck*
* Change link_to_function and button_to_function to (optionally) take an update_page block instead of a JavaScript string. Closes #4804. *zraii@comcast.net, Sam Stephenson*
* Modify routing so that you can say :require => { :method => :post } for a route, and the route will never be selected unless the request method is POST. Only works for route recognition, not for route generation. *Jamis Buck*
* Added :add_headers option to verify which merges a hash of name/value pairs into the response's headers hash if the prerequisites cannot be satisfied. *Sam Stephenson*
ex. verify :only => :speak, :method => :post,
:render => { :status => 405, :text => "Must be post" },
:add_headers => { "Allow" => "POST" }
## 1.12.5 (August 10th, 2006) ##
* Updated security fix
## 1.12.4 (August 8th, 2006) ##
* Cache CgiRequest#request_parameters so that multiple calls don't re-parse multipart data. *Rick Olson*
* Fixed that remote_form_for can leave out the object parameter and default to the instance variable of the object_name, just like form_for *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added ActionController.filter_parameter_logging that makes it easy to remove passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information from being logged when a request is handled. #1897 *jeremye@bsa.ca.gov*
* Fixed that real files and symlinks should be treated the same when compiling templates. #5438 *zachary@panandscan.com*
* Add :status option to send_data and send_file. Defaults to '200 OK'. #5243 *Manfred Stienstra *
* Update documentation for erb trim syntax. #5651 *matt@mattmargolis.net*
* Short documentation to mention use of Mime::Type.register. #5710 *choonkeat@gmail.com*
## 1.12.3 (June 28th, 2006) ##
* Fix broken traverse_to_controller. We now:
Look for a _controller.rb file under RAILS_ROOT to load.
If we find it, we require_dependency it and return the controller it defined. (If none was defined we stop looking.)
If we don't find it, we look for a .rb file under RAILS_ROOT to load. If we find it, and it loads a constant we keep looking.
Otherwise we check to see if a directory of the same name exists, and if it does we create a module for it.
## 1.12.2 (June 27th, 2006) ##
* Refinement to avoid exceptions in traverse_to_controller.
* (Hackish) Fix loading of arbitrary files in Ruby's load path by traverse_to_controller. *Nicholas Seckar*
## 1.12.1 (April 6th, 2006) ##
* Fixed that template extensions would be cached development mode #4624 *Stefan Kaes*
* Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc0 *Sam Stephenson*
* Honor skipping filters conditionally for only certain actions even when the parent class sets that filter to conditionally be executed only for the same actions. #4522 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Delegate xml_http_request in integration tests to the session instance. *Jamis Buck*
* Update the diagnostics template skip the useless '' text. *Nicholas Seckar*
* CHANGED DEFAULT: Don't parse YAML input by default, but keep it available as an easy option *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Add additional autocompleter options *aballai, Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed fragment caching of binary data on Windows #4493 *bellis@deepthought.org*
* Applied Prototype $() performance patches (#4465, #4477) and updated script.aculo.us *Sam Stephenson, Thomas Fuchs*
* Added automated timestamping to AssetTagHelper methods for stylesheets, javascripts, and images when Action Controller is run under Rails [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
image_tag("rails.png") # => ''
...to avoid frequent stats (not a problem for most people), you can set RAILS_ASSET_ID in the ENV to avoid stats:
ENV["RAILS_ASSET_ID"] = "2345"
image_tag("rails.png") # => ''
This can be used by deployment managers to set the asset id by application revision
## 1.12.0 (March 27th, 2006) ##
* Add documentation for respond_to. *Jamis Buck*
* Fixed require of bluecloth and redcloth when gems haven't been loaded #4446 *murphy@cYcnus.de*
* Update to Prototype 1.5.0_pre1 *Sam Stephenson*
* Change #form_for and #fields_for so that the second argument is not required *Dave Thomas*
<% form_for :post, @post, :url => { :action => 'create' } do |f| -%>
becomes...
<% form_for :post, :url => { :action => 'create' } do |f| -%>
* Update to script.aculo.us 1.6 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Enable application/x-yaml processing by default *Jamis Buck*
* Fix double url escaping of remote_function. Add :escape => false option to ActionView's url_for. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add :script option to in_place_editor to support evalScripts (closes #4194) *Cody Fauser*
* Fix mixed case enumerable methods in the JavaScript Collection Proxy (closes #4314) *Cody Fauser*
* Undo accidental escaping for mail_to; add regression test. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added nicer message for assert_redirected_to (closes #4294) *court3nay*
assert_redirected_to :action => 'other_host', :only_path => false
when it was expecting...
redirected_to :action => 'other_host', :only_path => true, :host => 'other.test.host'
gives the error message...
response is not a redirection to all of the options supplied (redirection is <{:only_path=>false, :host=>"other.test.host", :action=>"other_host"}>), difference: <{:only_path=>"true", :host=>"other.test.host"}>
* Change url_for to escape the resulting URLs when called from a view. *Nicholas Seckar, coffee2code*
* Added easy support for testing file uploads with fixture_file_upload #4105 [turnip@turnipspatch.com]. Example:
# Looks in Test::Unit::TestCase.fixture_path + '/files/spongebob.png'
post :change_avatar, :avatar => fixture_file_upload('/files/spongebob.png', 'image/png')
* Fixed UrlHelper#current_page? to behave even when url-escaped entities are present #3929 *jeremy@planetargon.com*
* Add ability for relative_url_root to be specified via an environment variable RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT. *isaac@reuben.com, Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed link_to "somewhere", :post => true to produce valid XHTML by using the parentnode instead of document.body for the instant form #3007 *Bob Silva*
* Added :function option to PrototypeHelper#observe_field/observe_form that allows you to call a function instead of submitting an ajax call as the trigger #4268 *jonathan@daikini.com*
* Make Mime::Type.parse consider q values (if any) *Jamis Buck*
* XML-formatted requests are typecast according to "type" attributes for :xml_simple *Jamis Buck*
* Added protection against proxy setups treating requests as local even when they're not #3898 *Steve Purcell*
* Added TestRequest#raw_post that simulate raw_post from CgiRequest #3042 *François Beausoleil*
* Underscore dasherized keys in formatted requests *Jamis Buck*
* Add MimeResponds::Responder#any for managing multiple types with identical responses *Jamis Buck*
* Make the xml_http_request testing method set the HTTP_ACCEPT header *Jamis Buck*
* Add Verification to scaffolds. Prevent destructive actions using GET *Michael Koziarski*
* Avoid hitting the filesystem when using layouts by using a File.directory? cache. *Stefan Kaes, Nicholas Seckar*
* Simplify ActionController::Base#controller_path *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added simple alert() notifications for RJS exceptions when config.action_view.debug_rjs = true. *Sam Stephenson*
* Added :content_type option to render, so you can change the content type on the fly [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example: render :action => "atom.rxml", :content_type => "application/atom+xml"
* CHANGED DEFAULT: The default content type for .rxml is now application/xml instead of type/xml, see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/21/dive.html for reason *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added option to render action/template/file of a specific extension (and here by template type). This means you can have multiple templates with the same name but a different extension [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
def index
@posts = Post.find :all
respond_to do |type|
type.html # using defaults, which will render weblog/index.rhtml
type.xml { render :action => "index.rxml" }
type.js { render :action => "index.rjs" }
end
end
end
* Added better support for using the same actions to output for different sources depending on the Accept header [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
def create
@post = Post.create(params[:post])
respond_to do |type|
type.js { render } # renders create.rjs
type.html { redirect_to :action => "index" }
type.xml do
headers["Location"] = url_for(:action => "show", :id => @post)
render(:nothing, :status => "201 Created")
end
end
end
end
* Added Base#render(:xml => xml) that works just like Base#render(:text => text), but sets the content-type to text/xml and the charset to UTF-8 *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Integration test's url_for now runs in the context of the last request (if any) so after post /products/show/1 url_for :action => 'new' will yield /product/new *Tobias Lütke*
* Re-added mixed-in helper methods for the JavascriptGenerator. Moved JavascriptGenerators methods to a module that is mixed in after the helpers are added. Also fixed that variables set in the enumeration methods like #collect are set correctly. Documentation added for the enumeration methods [Rick Olson]. Examples:
page.select('#items li').collect('items') do |element|
element.hide
end
# => var items = $$('#items li').collect(function(value, index) { return value.hide(); });
* Added plugin support for parameter parsers, which allows for better support for REST web services. By default, posts submitted with the application/xml content type is handled by creating a XmlSimple hash with the same name as the root element of the submitted xml. More handlers can easily be registered like this:
# Assign a new param parser to a new content type
ActionController::Base.param_parsers['application/atom+xml'] = Proc.new do |data|
node = REXML::Document.new(post)
{ node.root.name => node.root }
end
# Assign the default XmlSimple to a new content type
ActionController::Base.param_parsers['application/backpack+xml'] = :xml_simple
Default YAML web services were retired, ActionController::Base.param_parsers carries an example which shows how to get this functionality back. As part of this new plugin support, request.[formatted_post?, xml_post?, yaml_post? and post_format] were all deprecated in favor of request.content_type [Tobias Lütke]
* Fixed Effect.Appear in effects.js to work with floats in Safari #3524, #3813, #3044 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed that default image extension was not appended when using a full URL with AssetTagHelper#image_tag #4032, #3728 *rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com*
* Added that page caching will only happen if the response code is less than 400 #4033 *g.bucher@teti.ch*
* Add ActionController::IntegrationTest to allow high-level testing of the way the controllers and routes all work together *Jamis Buck*
* Added support to AssetTagHelper#javascript_include_tag for having :defaults appear anywhere in the list, so you can now make one call ala javascript_include_tag(:defaults, "my_scripts") or javascript_include_tag("my_scripts", :defaults) depending on how you want the load order #3506 *Bob Silva*
* Added support for visual effects scoped queues to the visual_effect helper #3530 *Abdur-Rahman Advany*
* Added .rxml (and any non-rhtml template, really) supportfor CaptureHelper#content_for and CaptureHelper#capture #3287 *Brian Takita*
* Added script.aculo.us drag and drop helpers to RJS [Thomas Fuchs]. Examples:
page.draggable 'product-1'
page.drop_receiving 'wastebasket', :url => { :action => 'delete' }
page.sortable 'todolist', :url => { action => 'change_order' }
* Fixed that form elements would strip the trailing [] from the first parameter #3545 *ruby@bobsilva.com*
* During controller resolution, update the NameError suppression to check for the expected constant. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Update script.aculo.us to V1.5.3 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added various InPlaceEditor options, #3746, #3891, #3896, #3906 *Bill Burcham, ruairi, sl33p3r*
* Added :count option to pagination that'll make it possible for the ActiveRecord::Base.count call to using something else than * for the count. Especially important for count queries using DISTINCT #3839 *Stefan Kaes*
* Update script.aculo.us to V1.5.2 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added element and collection proxies to RJS [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:
page['blank_slate'] # => $('blank_slate');
page['blank_slate'].show # => $('blank_slate').show();
page['blank_slate'].show('first').up # => $('blank_slate').show('first').up();
page.select('p') # => $$('p');
page.select('p.welcome b').first # => $$('p.welcome b').first();
page.select('p.welcome b').first.hide # => $$('p.welcome b').first().hide();
* Add JavaScriptGenerator#replace for replacing an element's "outer HTML". #3246 *tom@craz8.com, Sam Stephenson*
* Remove over-engineered form_for code for a leaner implementation. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Document form_for's :html option. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Major components cleanup and speedup. #3527 *Stefan Kaes*
* Fix problems with pagination and :include. *Kevin Clark*
* Add ActiveRecordTestCase for testing AR integration. *Kevin Clark*
* Add Unit Tests for pagination *Kevin Clark*
* Add :html option for specifying form tag options in form_for. *Sam Stephenson*
* Replace dubious controller parent class in filter docs. #3655, #3722 *info@rhalff.com, eigentone@gmail.com*
* Don't interpret the :value option on text_area as an html attribute. Set the text_area's value. #3752 *gabriel@gironda.org*
* Fix remote_form_for creates a non-ajax form. *Rick Olson*
* Don't let arbitrary classes match as controllers -- a potentially dangerous bug. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fix Routing tests. Fix routing where failing to match a controller would prevent the rest of routes from being attempted. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add :builder => option to form_for and friends. *Nicholas Seckar, Rick Olson*
* Fix controller resolution to avoid accidentally inheriting a controller from a parent module. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Set sweeper's @controller to nil after a request so that the controller may be collected between requests. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Subclasses of ActionController::Caching::Sweeper should be Reloadable. *Rick Olson*
* Document the :xhr option for verifications. #3666 *leeo*
* Added :only and :except controls to skip_before/after_filter just like for when you add filters *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Ensure that the instance variables are copied to the template when performing render :update. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add the ability to call JavaScriptGenerator methods from helpers called in update blocks. [Sam Stephenson] Example:
module ApplicationHelper
def update_time
page.replace_html 'time', Time.now.to_s(:db)
page.visual_effect :highlight, 'time'
end
end
class UserController < ApplicationController
def poll
render :update { |page| page.update_time }
end
end
* Add render(:update) to ActionView::Base. *Sam Stephenson*
* Fix render(:update) to not render layouts. *Sam Stephenson*
* Fixed that SSL would not correctly be detected when running lighttpd/fcgi behind lighttpd w/mod_proxy #3548 *Steve Purcell*
* Added the possibility to specify atomatic expiration for the memcachd session container #3571 *Stefan Kaes*
* Change layout discovery to take into account the change in semantics with File.join and nil arguments. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Raise a RedirectBackError if redirect_to :back is called when there's no HTTP_REFERER defined #3049 *Kevin Clark*
* Treat timestamps like datetimes for scaffolding purposes #3388 *Maik Schmidt*
* Fix IE bug with link_to "something", :post => true #3443 *Justin Palmer*
* Extract Test::Unit::TestCase test process behavior into an ActionController::TestProcess module. *Sam Stephenson*
* Pass along blocks from render_to_string to render. *Sam Stephenson*
* Add render :update for inline RJS. [Sam Stephenson] Example:
class UserController < ApplicationController
def refresh
render :update do |page|
page.replace_html 'user_list', :partial => 'user', :collection => @users
page.visual_effect :highlight, 'user_list'
end
end
end
* allow nil objects for error_messages_for *Michael Koziarski*
* Refactor human_size to exclude decimal place if it is zero. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Update to Prototype 1.5.0_pre0 *Sam Stephenson*
* Automatically discover layouts when a controller is namespaced. #2199, #3424 *me@jonnii.com rails@jeffcole.net Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Add support for multiple proxy servers to CgiRequest#host *gaetanot@comcast.net*
* Documentation typo fix. #2367 *Blair Zajac*
* Remove Upload Progress. #2871 *Sean Treadway*
* Fix typo in function name mapping in auto_complete_field. #2929 #3446 *doppler@gmail.com phil.ross@gmail.com*
* Allow auto-discovery of third party template library layouts. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Have the form builder output radio button, not check box, when calling the radio button helper. #3331 *LouisStAmour@gmail.com*
* Added assignment of the Autocompleter object created by JavaScriptMacroHelper#auto_complete_field to a local javascript variables *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added :on option for PrototypeHelper#observe_field that allows you to specify a different callback hook to have the observer trigger on *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added JavaScriptHelper#button_to_function that works just like JavaScriptHelper#link_to_function but uses a button instead of a href *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added that JavaScriptHelper#link_to_function will honor existing :onclick definitions when adding the function call *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added :disable_with option to FormTagHelper#submit_tag to allow for easily disabled submit buttons with different text *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Make auto_link handle nil by returning quickly if blank? *Scott Barron*
* Make auto_link match urls with a port number specified. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Added support for toggling visual effects to ScriptaculousHelper::visual_effect, #3323. *Thomas Fuchs*
* Update to script.aculo.us to 1.5.0 rev. 3343 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added :select option for JavaScriptMacroHelper#auto_complete_field that makes it easier to only use part of the auto-complete suggestion as the value for insertion *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added delayed execution of Javascript from within RJS #3264 [devslashnull@gmail.com]. Example:
page.delay(20) do
page.visual_effect :fade, 'notice'
end
* Add session ID to default logging, but remove the verbose description of every step *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Add the following RJS methods: *Sam Stephenson*
* alert - Displays an alert() dialog
* redirect_to - Changes window.location.href to simulate a browser redirect
* call - Calls a JavaScript function
* assign - Assigns to a JavaScript variable
* << - Inserts an arbitrary JavaScript string
* Fix incorrect documentation for form_for *Nicholas Seckar*
* Don't include a layout when rendering an rjs template using render's :template option. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
## 1.1.2 (December 13th, 2005) ##
* Become part of Rails 1.0
* Update to script.aculo.us 1.5.0 final (equals 1.5.0_rc6) *Thomas Fuchs*
* Update to Prototype 1.4.0 final *Sam Stephenson*
* Added form_remote_for (form_for meets form_remote_tag) *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Update to script.aculo.us 1.5.0_rc6
* More robust relative url root discovery for SCGI compatibility. This solves the 'SCGI routes problem' -- you no longer need to prefix all your routes with the name of the SCGI mountpoint. #3070 *Dave Ringoen*
* Fix docs for text_area_tag. #3083. *Christopher Cotton*
* Change form_for and fields_for method signatures to take object name and object as separate arguments rather than as a Hash. *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Introduce :selected option to the select helper. Allows you to specify a selection other than the current value of object.method. Specify :selected => nil to leave all options unselected. #2991 *Jonathan Viney *
* Initialize @optional in routing code to avoid warnings about uninitialized access to an instance variable. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Make ActionController's render honor the :locals option when rendering a :file. #1665. *Emanuel Borsboom, Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Allow assert_tag(:conditions) to match the empty string when a tag has no children. Closes #2959. *Jamis Buck*
* Update html-scanner to handle CDATA sections better. Closes #2970. *Jamis Buck*
* Don't put flash in session if sessions are disabled. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Strip out trailing &_= for raw post bodies. Closes #2868. *Sam Stephenson*
* Pass multiple arguments to Element.show and Element.hide in JavaScriptGenerator instead of using iterators. *Sam Stephenson*
* Improve expire_fragment documentation. #2966 *court3nay*
* Correct docs for automatic layout assignment. #2610. *Charles M. Gerungan*
* Always create new AR sessions rather than trying too hard to avoid database traffic. #2731 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Update to Prototype 1.4.0_rc4. Closes #2943 (old Array.prototype.reverse behavior can be obtained by passing false as an argument). *Sam Stephenson*
* Use Element.update('id', 'html') instead of $('id').innerHTML = 'html' in JavaScriptGenerator#replace_html so that script tags are evaluated. *Sam Stephenson*
* Make rjs templates always implicitly skip out on layouts. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Correct length for the truncate text helper. #2913 *Stefan Kaes*
* Update to Prototype 1.4.0_rc3. Closes #1893, #2505, #2550, #2748, #2783. *Sam Stephenson*
* Add support for new rjs templates which wrap an update_page block. *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Rename Version constant to VERSION. #2802 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Correct time_zone_options_for_select docs. #2892 *pudeyo@rpi.com*
* Remove the unused, slow response_dump and session_dump variables from error pages. #1222 *lmarlow*
* Performance tweaks: use Set instead of Array to speed up prototype helper include? calls. Avoid logging code if logger is nil. Inline commonly-called template presence checks. #2880, #2881, #2882, #2883 *Stefan Kaes*
* MemCache store may be given multiple addresses. #2869 *Ryan Carver *
* Handle cookie parsing irregularity for certain Nokia phones. #2530 *zaitzow@gmail.com*
* Added PrototypeHelper::JavaScriptGenerator and PrototypeHelper#update_page for easily modifying multiple elements in an Ajax response. [Sam Stephenson] Example:
update_page do |page|
page.insert_html :bottom, 'list', '
Last item
'
page.visual_effect :highlight, 'list'
page.hide 'status-indicator', 'cancel-link'
end
generates the following JavaScript:
new Insertion.Bottom("list", "
Last item
");
new Effect.Highlight("list");
["status-indicator", "cancel-link"].each(Element.hide);
* Refactored JavaScriptHelper into PrototypeHelper and ScriptaculousHelper *Sam Stephenson*
* Update to latest script.aculo.us version (as of [3031])
* Updated docs for in_place_editor, fixes a couple bugs and offers extended support for external controls *Justin Palmer*
* Update documentation for render :file. #2858 *Tom Werner*
* Only include builtin filters whose filenames match /^[a-z][a-z_]*_helper.rb$/ to avoid including operating system metadata such as ._foo_helper.rb. #2855 *court3nay*
* Added FormHelper#form_for and FormHelper#fields_for that makes it easier to work with forms for single objects also if they don't reside in instance variables [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Examples:
<% form_for :person, @person, :url => { :action => "update" } do |f| %>
First name: <%= f.text_field :first_name %>
Last name : <%= f.text_field :last_name %>
Biography : <%= f.text_area :biography %>
Admin? : <%= f.check_box :admin %>
<% end %>
<% form_for :person, person, :url => { :action => "update" } do |person_form| %>
First name: <%= person_form.text_field :first_name %>
Last name : <%= person_form.text_field :last_name %>
<% fields_for :permission => person.permission do |permission_fields| %>
Admin? : <%= permission_fields.check_box :admin %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
* options_for_select allows any objects which respond_to? :first and :last rather than restricting to Array and Range. #2824 *Jacob Robbins , Jeremy Kemper*
* The auto_link text helper accepts an optional block to format the link text for each url and email address. Example: auto_link(post.body) { |text| truncate(text, 10) } *Jeremy Kemper*
* assert_tag uses exact matches for string conditions, instead of partial matches. Use regex to do partial matches. #2799 *Jamis Buck*
* CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore.data_column_name = 'foobar' to use a different session data column than the 'data' default. *nbpwie102@sneakemail.com*
* Do not raise an exception when default helper is missing; log a debug message instead. It's nice to delete empty helpers. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Controllers with acronyms in their names (e.g. PDFController) require the correct default helper (PDFHelper in file pdf_helper.rb). #2262 *jeff@opendbms.com*
## 1.11.0 (November 7th, 2005) ##
* Added request as instance method to views, so you can do <%= request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] %>, just like you can already access response, session, and the likes *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Fix conflict with assert_tag and Glue gem #2255 *david.felstead@gmail.com*
* Add documentation to assert_tag indicating that it only works with well-formed XHTML #1937, #2570 *Jamis Buck*
* Added action_pack.rb stub so that ActionPack::Version loads properly *Sam Stephenson*
* Added short-hand to assert_tag so assert_tag :tag => "span" can be written as assert_tag "span" *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added skip_before_filter/skip_after_filter for easier control of the filter chain in inheritance hierachies [David Heinemeier Hansson]. Example:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :authenticate
end
class WeblogController < ApplicationController
# will run the :authenticate filter
end
class SignupController < ActionController::Base
# will not run the :authenticate filter
skip_before_filter :authenticate
end
* Added redirect_to :back as a short-hand for redirect_to(request.env["HTTP_REFERER"]) *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Change javascript_include_tag :defaults to not use script.aculo.us loader, which facilitates the use of plugins for future script.aculo.us and third party javascript extensions, and provide register_javascript_include_default for plugins to specify additional JavaScript files to load. Removed slider.js and builder.js from actionpack. *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fix problem where redirecting components can cause an infinite loop *Rick Olson*
* Added support for the queue option on visual_effect *Thomas Fuchs*
* Update script.aculo.us to V1.5_rc4 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fix that render :text didn't interpolate instance variables #2629, #2626 *Stefan Kaes*
* Fix line number detection and escape RAILS_ROOT in backtrace Regexp *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed document.getElementsByClassName from Prototype to be speedy again *Sam Stephenson*
* Recognize ./#{RAILS_ROOT} as RAILS_ROOT in error traces *Nicholas Seckar*
* Remove ARStore session fingerprinting *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fix obscure bug in ARStore *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added TextHelper#strip_tags for removing HTML tags from a string (using HTMLTokenizer) #2229 *marcin@junkheap.net*
* Added a reader for flash.now, so it's possible to do stuff like flash.now[:alert] ||= 'New if not set' #2422 *Caio Chassot*
## 1.10.2 (October 26th, 2005) ##
* Reset template variables after using render_to_string *Stefan Kaes*
* Expose the session model backing CGI::Session
* Abbreviate RAILS_ROOT in traces
## 1.10.1 (October 19th, 2005) ##
* Update error trace templates *Nicholas Seckar*
* Stop showing generated routing code in application traces *Nicholas Seckar*
## 1.10.0 (October 16th, 2005) ##
* Make string-keys locals assigns optional. Add documentation describing depreciated state *Stefan Kaes*
* Improve line number detection for template errors *Nicholas Seckar*
* Update/clean up documentation (rdoc)
* Upgrade to Prototype 1.4.0_rc0 *Sam Stephenson*
* Added assert_vaild. Reports the proper AR error messages as fail message when the passed record is invalid *Tobias Lütke*
* Add temporary support for passing locals to render using string keys *Nicholas Seckar*
* Clean up error pages by providing better backtraces *Nicholas Seckar*
* Raise an exception if an attempt is made to insert more session data into the ActiveRecordStore data column than the column can hold. #2234. *justin@textdrive.com*
* Removed references to assertions.rb from actionpack assert's backtraces. Makes error reports in functional unit tests much less noisy. *Tobias Lütke*
* Updated and clarified documentation for JavaScriptHelper to be more concise about the various options for including the JavaScript libs. *Thomas Fuchs*
* Hide "Retry with Breakpoint" button on error pages until feature is functional. *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Fix Request#host_with_port to use the standard port when Rails is behind a proxy. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Escape query strings in the href attribute of URLs created by url_helper. #2333 *Michael Schuerig *
* Improved line number reporting for template errors *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added :locals support for render :inline #2463 *mdabney@cavoksolutions.com*
* Unset the X-Requested-With header when using the xhr wrapper in functional tests so that future requests aren't accidentally xhr'ed #2352 *me@julik.nl, Sam Stephenson*
* Unescape paths before writing cache to file system. #1877. *Damien Pollet*
* Wrap javascript_tag contents in a CDATA section and add a cdata_section method to TagHelper #1691 *Michael Schuerig, Sam Stephenson*
* Misc doc fixes (typos/grammar/etc). #2445. *coffee2code*
* Speed improvement for session_options. #2287. *Stefan Kaes*
* Make cacheing binary files friendly with Windows. #1975. *Rich Olson*
* Convert boolean form options form the tag_helper. #809. *Michael Schuerig *
* Fixed that an instance variable with the same name as a partial should be implicitly passed as the partial :object #2269 *court3nay*
* Update Prototype to V1.4.0_pre11, script.aculo.us to [2502] *Thomas Fuchs*
* Make assert_tag :children count appropriately. Closes #2181. *jamie@bravenet.com*
* Forced newer versions of RedCloth to use hard breaks *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Added new scriptaculous options for auto_complete_field #2343 *Manfred Stienstra*
* Don't prepend the asset host if the string is already a fully-qualified URL
* Updated to script.aculo.us V1.5.0_rc2 and Prototype to V1.4.0_pre7 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Undo condition change made in [2345] to prevent normal parameters arriving as StringIO.
* Tolerate consecutive delimiters in query parameters. #2295 *darashi@gmail.com*
* Streamline render process, code cleaning. Closes #2294. *skae*
* Keep flash after components are rendered. #2291 *Rick Olson, Scott*
* Shorten IE file upload path to filename only to match other browsers. #1507 *court3nay*
* Fix open/save dialog in IE not opening files send with send_file/send_data, #2279 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed that auto_discovery_link_tag couldn't take a string as the URL *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Fixed problem with send_file and WEBrick using stdout #1812 *David Heinemeier Hansson*
* Optimized tag_options to not sort keys, which is no longer necessary when assert_dom_equal and friend is available #1995 *skae*
* Added assert_dom_equal and assert_dom_not_equal to compare tags generated by the helpers in an order-indifferent manner #1995 *skae*
* Fixed that Request#domain caused an exception if the domain header wasn't set in the original http request #1795 *Michael Koziarski*
* Make the truncate() helper multi-byte safe (assuming $KCODE has been set to something other than "NONE") #2103
* Add routing tests from #1945 *ben@groovie.org*
* Add a routing test case covering #2101 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Cache relative_url_root for all webservers, not just Apache #2193 *skae*
* Speed up cookie use by decreasing string copying #2194 *skae*
* Fixed access to "Host" header with requests made by crappy old HTTP/1.0 clients #2124 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Added easy assignment of fragment cache store through use of symbols for included stores (old way still works too)
Before:
ActionController::Base.fragment_cache_store =
ActionController::Base::Caching::Fragments::FileStore.new("/path/to/cache/directory")
After:
ActionController::Base.fragment_cache_store = :file_store, "/path/to/cache/directory"
* Added ActionController::Base.session_store=, session_store, and session_options to make it easier to tweak the session options (instead of going straight to ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS)
* Added TextHelper#cycle to cycle over an array of values on each hit (useful for alternating row colors etc) #2154 *dave-ml@dribin.org*
* Ensure that request.path never returns nil. Closes #1675 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Add ability to specify Route Regexps for controllers. Closes #1917. *Sebastian Kanthak*
* Provide Named Route's hash methods as helper methods. Closes #1744. *Nicholas Seckar, Steve Purcell*
* Added :multipart option to ActiveRecordHelper#form to make it possible to add file input fields #2034 *jstirk@oobleyboo.com*
* Moved auto-completion and in-place editing into the Macros module and their helper counterparts into JavaScriptMacrosHelper
* Added in-place editing support in the spirit of auto complete with ActionController::Base.in_place_edit_for, JavascriptHelper#in_place_editor_field, and Javascript support from script.aculo.us #2038 *Jon Tirsen*
* Added :disabled option to all data selects that'll make the elements inaccessible for change #2167, #253 *eigentone*
* Fixed that TextHelper#auto_link_urls would include punctuation in the links #2166, #1671 *eigentone*
* Fixed that number_to_currency(1000, {:precision => 0})) should return "$1,000", instead of "$1,000." #2122 *sd@notso.net*
* Allow link_to_remote to use any DOM-element as the parent of the form elements to be submitted #2137 [erik@ruby-lang.nl]. Example:
* Fixed that render :partial would fail when :object was a Hash (due to backwards compatibility issues) #2148 *Sam Stephenson*
* Fixed JavascriptHelper#auto_complete_for to only include unique items #2153 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed all AssetHelper methods to work with relative paths, such that javascript_include_tag('stdlib/standard') will look in /javascripts/stdlib/standard instead of '/stdlib/standard/' #1963
* Avoid extending view instance with helper modules each request. Closes #1979
* Performance improvements to CGI methods. Closes #1980 *Stefan Kaes*
* Added :post option to UrlHelper#link_to that makes it possible to do POST requests through normal ahref links using Javascript
* Fixed overwrite_params
* Added ActionController::Base.benchmark and ActionController::Base.silence to allow for easy benchmarking and turning off the log
* Updated vendor copy of html-scanner to support better xml parsing
* Added :popup option to UrlHelper#link_to #1996 [gabriel.gironda@gmail.com]. Examples:
link_to "Help", { :action => "help" }, :popup => true
link_to "Busy loop", { :action => "busy" }, :popup => ['new_window', 'height=300,width=600']
* Drop trailing \000 if present on RAW_POST_DATA (works around bug in Safari Ajax implementation) #918
* Fix observe_field to fall back to event-based observation if frequency <= 0 #1916 *Michael Schubert*
* Allow use of the :with option for submit_to_remote #1936 *jon@instance-design.co.uk*
* AbstractRequest#domain returns nil when host is an ip address #2012 *Kevin Clark*
* ActionController documentation update #2051 *François Beausoleil*
* Yield @content_for_ variables to templates #2058 *Sam Stephenson*
* Make rendering an empty partial collection behave like :nothing => true #2080 *Sam Stephenson*
* Add option to specify the singular name used by pagination.
* Use string key to obtain action value. Allows indifferent hashes to be disabled.
* Added ActionView::Base.cache_template_loading back.
* Rewrote compiled templates to decrease code complexity. Removed template load caching in favour of compiled caching. Fixed template error messages. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fix Routing to handle :some_param => nil better. *Nicholas Seckar, Luminas*
* Add support for :include with pagination (subject to existing constraints for :include with :limit and :offset) #1478 *Michael Schubert*
* Prevent the benchmark module from blowing up if a non-HTTP/1.1 request is processed
* Added :use_short_month option to select_month helper to show month names as abbreviations
* Make link_to escape the javascript in the confirm option #1964 *nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com*
* Make assert_redirected_to properly check URL's passed as strings #1910 *Scott Barron*
* Make sure :layout => false is always used when rendering inside a layout
* Use raise instead of assert_not_nil in Test::Unit::TestCase#process to ensure that the test variables (controller, request, response) have been set
* Make sure assigns are built for every request when testing #1866
* Allow remote_addr to be queried on TestRequest #1668
* Fixed bug when a partial render was passing a local with the same name as the partial
* Improved performance of test app req/sec with ~10% refactoring the render method #1823 *Stefan Kaes*
* Improved performance of test app req/sec with 5-30% through a series of Action Pack optimizations #1811 *Stefan Kaes*
* Changed caching/expiration/hit to report using the DEBUG log level and errors to use the ERROR log level instead of both using INFO
* Added support for per-action session management #1763
* Improved rendering speed on complicated templates by up to 100% (the more complex the templates, the higher the speedup) #1234 [Stefan Kaes]. This did necessasitate a change to the internals of ActionView#render_template that now has four parameters. Developers of custom view handlers (like Amrita) need to update for that.
* Added options hash as third argument to FormHelper#input, so you can do input('person', 'zip', :size=>10) #1719 *jeremye@bsa.ca.gov*
* Added Base#expires_in(seconds)/Base#expires_now to control HTTP content cache headers #1755 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed line number reporting for Builder template errors #1753 *piotr*
* Fixed assert_routing so that testing controllers in modules works as expected *Nicholas Seckar, Rick Olson*
* Fixed bug with :success/:failure callbacks for the JavaScriptHelper methods #1730 *court3nay/Thomas Fuchs*
* Added named_route method to RouteSet instances so that RouteSet instance methods do not prevent certain names from being used. *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed routes so that routes which do not specify :action in the path or in the requirements have a default of :action => 'index', In addition, fixed url generation so that :action => 'index' does not need to be provided for such urls. *Nicholas Seckar, Markjuh*
* Worked around a Safari bug where it wouldn't pass headers through if the response was zero length by having render :nothing return ' ' instead of ''
* Fixed Request#subdomains to handle "foo.foo.com" correctly
## 1.9.1 (11 July, 2005) ##
* Fixed that auto_complete_for didn't force the input string to lower case even as the db comparison was
* Fixed that Action View should always use the included Builder, never attempt to require the gem, to ensure compatibility
* Added that nil options are not included in tags, so tag("p", :ignore => nil) now returns not but that tag("p", :ignore => "") still includes it #1465 *Michael Schuerig*
* Fixed that UrlHelper#link_to_unless/link_to_if used html_escape on the name if no link was to be applied. This is unnecessary and breaks its use with images #1649 *joergd@pobox.com*
* Improved error message for DoubleRenderError
* Fixed routing to allow for testing of *path components #1650 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added :handle as an option to sortable_element to restrict the drag handle to a given class #1642 *thejohnny*
* Added a bunch of script.aculo.us features #1644, #1677, #1695 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Effect.ScrollTo, to smoothly scroll the page to an element
* Better Firefox flickering handling on SlideUp/SlideDown
* Removed a possible memory leak in IE with draggables
* Added support for cancelling dragging my hitting ESC
* Added capability to remove draggables/droppables and redeclare sortables in dragdrop.js (this makes it possible to call sortable_element on the same element more than once, e.g. in AJAX returns that modify the sortable element. all current sortable 'stuff' on the element will be discarded and the sortable will be rebuilt)
* Always reset background color on Effect.Highlight; this make change backwards-compatibility, to be sure include style="background-color:(target-color)" on your elements or else elements will fall back to their CSS rules (which is a good thing in most circumstances)
* Removed circular references from element to prevent memory leaks (still not completely gone in IE)
* Changes to class extension in effects.js
* Make Effect.Highlight restore any previously set background color when finishing (makes effect work with CSS classes that set a background color)
* Fixed myriads of memory leaks in IE and Gecko-based browsers *David Zülke*
* Added incremental and local autocompleting and loads of documentation to controls.js *Ivan Krstic*
* Extended the auto_complete_field helper to accept tokens option
* Changed object extension mechanism to favor Object.extend to make script.aculo.us easily adaptable to support 3rd party libs like IE7.js *David Zülke*
* Fixed that named routes didn't use the default values for action and possible other parameters #1534 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed JavascriptHelper#visual_effect to use camelize such that :blind_up will work #1639 *pelletierm@eastmedia.net*
* Fixed that a SessionRestoreError was thrown if a model object was placed in the session that wasn't available to all controllers. This means that it's no longer necessary to use the 'model :post' work-around in ApplicationController to have a Post model in your session.
## 1.9.0 (6 July, 2005) ##
* Added logging of the request URI in the benchmark statement (makes it easy to grep for slow actions)
* Added javascript_include_tag :defaults shortcut that'll include all the default javascripts included with Action Pack (prototype, effects, controls, dragdrop)
* Cache several controller variables that are expensive to calculate #1229 *Stefan Kaes*
* The session class backing CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore may be replaced with any class that duck-types with a subset of Active Record. See docs for details #1238 *Stefan Kaes*
* Fixed that hashes was not working properly when passed by GET to lighttpd #849 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed assert_template nil will be true when no template was rendered #1565 *maceywj@telus.net*
* Added :prompt option to FormOptions#select (and the users of it, like FormOptions#select_country etc) to create "Please select" style descriptors #1181 *Michael Schuerig*
* Added JavascriptHelper#update_element_function, which returns a Javascript function (or expression) that'll update a DOM element according to the options passed #933 [mortonda@dgrmm.net]. Examples:
<%= update_element_function("products", :action => :insert, :position => :bottom, :content => "
<% end %>
* Added :field_name option to DateHelper#select_(year|month|day) to deviate from the year/month/day defaults #1266 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Added JavascriptHelper#draggable_element and JavascriptHelper#drop_receiving_element to facilitate easy dragging and dropping through the script.aculo.us libraries #1578 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added that UrlHelper#mail_to will now also encode the default link title #749 *f.svehla@gmail.com*
* Removed the default option of wrap=virtual on FormHelper#text_area to ensure XHTML compatibility #1300 *thomas@columbus.rr.com*
* Adds the ability to include XML CDATA tags using Builder #1563 [Josh Knowles]. Example:
xml.cdata! "some text" # =>
* Added evaluation of SCRIPT blocks in content returned to Ajax calls #1577 *Thomas Fuchs/court3nay/Sean Treadway*
* Directly generate paths with a leading slash instead of tacking it on later. #1543 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed errant parameter modification in functional tests. #1542 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Routes fail with leading slash #1540 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added support for graceful error handling of Ajax calls #1217 [Jamis Buck/Thomas Fuchs]. Example:
link_to_remote(
"test",
:url => { :action => "faulty" },
:update => { :success => "good", :failure => "bad" },
403 => "alert('Forbidden- got ya!')",
404 => "alert('Nothing there...?')",
:failure => "alert('Unkown error ' + request.status)")
* Attempt to explicitly flush the output at the end of CgiProcess#out
* Fixed assert_redirected_to to handle absolute controller paths properly #1472 *Rick Olson/Nicholas Seckar*
* Added event-based observations when frequency is not set on observe_field/form #1474 *flash@vanklinkenbergsoftware.nl*
* Added script.aculo.us Javascripts (controls.js, dragdrop.js, effects.js) (NEEDS MORE DESCRIPTION) #1509 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed prototype to consider all fields it doesn't know as text (such as Safari's search) just like the browser in its serialization #1497 *Sean Treadway*
* Improved performance of Routes generation by a factor of 5 #1434 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added named routes (NEEDS BETTER DESCRIPTION) #1434 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Improved AbstractRequest documentation #1483 *court3nay*
* Added ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency to control whether the application is thread-safe, so multi-threaded servers like WEBrick knows whether to apply a mutex around the performance of each action. Turned off by default. EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE.
* Added TextHelper#word_wrap(text, line_length = 80) #1449 *tuxie@dekadance.se*
* Added a fall-through action for form_remote_tag that'll be used in case Javascript is unavailable #1459 [Scott Barron]. Example:
form_remote_tag :html => { :action => url_for(:controller => "some", :action => "place") }
* Added :xhr => true/false option to verify so you can ensure that a request is coming from an Ajax call or not #1464 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Added tag_options as a third parameter to AssetHelper#auto_discovery_link_tag to control options like the title of the link #1430 *Kevin Clark*
* Added option to pass in parameters to CaptureHelper#capture, so you can create more advanced view helper methods #1466 [duane.johnson@gmail.com]. Example:
<% show_calendar(:year => 2005, :month => 6) do |day, options| %>
<% options[:bgcolor] = '#dfd' if 10..15.include? day %>
[<%= day %>]
<% end %>
* Changed the default name of the input tag generated by FormTagHelper#submit_tag from "submit" to "commit" so it doesn't clash with form.submit() calls in Javascript #1271
* Fixed relative urls support for lighttpd #1048 *Nicholas Seckar/maznawak@nerim.net*
* Correct distance_of_time_in_words for integer arguments and make the second arg optional, treating the first arg as a duration in seconds. #1458 *madrobby *
* Fixed query parser to deal gracefully with equal signs inside keys and values #1345 [gorou].
Example: /?sig=abcdef=:foobar=&x=y will pass now.
* Added Cuba to country list #1351 *todd*
* Fixed radio_button to work with numeric values #1352 *demetrius*
* Added :extension option to NumberHelper#number_to_phone #1361 *delynnb*
* Added button_to as a form-based solution to deal with harmful actions that should be hidden behind POSTs. This makes it just as easy as link_to to create a safe trigger for actions like destroy, although it's limited by being a block element, the fixed look, and a no-no inside other forms. #1371 *tom@moertel.com*
* Fixed image_tag so an exception is not thrown just because the image is missing and alt value can't be generated #1395 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Added a third parameter to TextHelper#auto_link called href_options for specifying additional tag options on the links generated #1401 [tyler.kovacs@gmail.com]. Example: auto_link(text, :all, { :target => "_blank" }) to have all the generated links open in a new window.
* Fixed TextHelper#highlight to return the text, not nil, if the phrase is blank #1409 *Patrick Lenz*
* Fixed TagHelper such that :name and 'name' keys in the options doesn't result in two attributes #1455 *take_tk*
* Ensure that helpers are only available to the controllers where they are defined and their subclasses. #1394 *kdole@tamu.edu*
* render("foo/bar") works with a layout again
* Fixed double-singularization on scaffolded pagination call (Address would be turned into Addres) #1216, #1404 *nilsga*
* Removed the require hack used by functional testing to work around an earlier bug in rake.
* Allow distance_of_time_in_words to work with any value that responds to #to_time (like dates) #969
* Support :render option for :verify #1440 *Tobias Lütke*
* Updated vendor copy of html-scanner lib to 0.5.2, for bug fixes and optimizations. The :content option may be used as expected--to find a tag whose textual content is a particular value--in assert_tag, now.
* Changed test requests to come from 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 such that they don't trigger debugging screens on exceptions, but instead call rescue_action_in_public
* Modernize scaffolding to match the generator: use the new render method and change style from the warty @params["id"] to the sleek params[:id]. #1367
* Include :id in the action generated by the form helper method. Then, for example, the controller can do Model.find(params[:id]) for both edit and update actions. Updated scaffolding to take advantage. #1367
* Add assertions with friendly messages to TestCase#process to ensure that @controller, @request, and @response are set. #1367
* Arrays, hashes sent via multipart posts are converted to strings #1032 *dj@omelia.org, me@julik.nl*
* render(:layout => true) is a synonym for render(:layout => nil)
* Make sure the benchmarking render method always returns the output of the render.
* render(:action), render(:template) and render() are the only three calls that default to using a layout. All other render calls assume :layout => false. This also fixes send_file, which was applying a layout if one existed for the current action.
* verify with :redirect_to won't redirect if a redirect or render has already been performed #1350
* render(:partial => true) is identical to the behavior of the deprecated render_partial()
* Fixed render(:partial => "...") to use an empty Hash for the local assigns #1365
* Fixed Caching::Fragments::FileStore.delete to not raise an exception if the delete fails.
* Deprecated all render_* methods in favor of consolidating all rendering behavior in Base#render(options). This enables more natural use of combining options, such as layouts. Examples:
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| BEFORE | AFTER |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| render_with_layout "weblog/show", "200 OK", "layouts/dialog" | render :action => "show", :layout => "dialog" |
| render_without_layout "weblog/show" | render :action => "show", :layout => false |
| render_action "error", "404 Not Found" | render :action => "error", :status => "404 Not Found" |
| render_template "xml.div('stuff')", "200 OK", :rxml | render :inline => "xml.div('stuff')", :type => :rxml |
| render_text "hello world!" | render :text => "hello world!" |
| render_partial_collection "person", @people, nil, :a => 1 | render :partial => "person", :collection => @people, |
| | :locals => { :a => 1 } |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
* Deprecated redirect_to_path and redirect_to_url in favor of letting redirect_to do the right thing when passed either a path or url.
* Fixed use of an integer as return code for renders, so render_text "hello world", 404 now works #1327
* Fixed assert_redirect_to to work with redirect_to_path #869 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed escaping of :method option in remote_form_tag #1218 *Rick Olson*
* Added Serbia and Montenegro to the country_select #1239 *todd@robotcoop.com*
* Fixed Request#remote_ip in testing #1251 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed that compute_public_path should recognize external URLs, so image_tag("http://www.example.com/images/icon.gif") is not prefixed with the relative url path #1254 *victor-ronr-trac@carotena.net*
* Added support for descending year values in DateHelper#select_year, like select_year(Date.today, :start_year => 2005, :end_year => 1900), which would count down from 2005 to 1900 instead of the other way #1274 *nwoods@mail.com*
* Fixed that FormHelper#checkbox should return a checked checkbox if the value is the same as checked_value #1286 *Florian Weber*
* Fixed Form.disable in Prototype #1317 *Wintermute*
* Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, flash, and headers from the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller
* Added support for POST data in form of YAML or XML, which is controller through the Content-Type header. Example request:
Content-Type: application/xml
HelloWorld
...is the same as:
Content-Type: application/x-yaml
---
item:
content: HelloWorld
...is the same as:
item[content]=HelloWorld
Which in the end turns into { "item" => { "content" => "HelloWorld" } }. This makes it a lot easier to publish REST web services on top of your regular actions (as they won't care).
Example Curl call:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' -d 'KillMeMore' http://www.example.com/service
You can query to find out whether a given request came through as one of these types with:
- request.post_format? (:url_encoded, :xml or :yaml)
- request.formatted_post? (for either xml or yaml)
- request.xml_post?
- request.yaml_post?
* Added bundling of XmlSimple by Maik Schmidt
* Fixed that render_partial_collection should always return a string (and not sometimes an array, despite <%= %> not caring)
* Added TextHelper#sanitize that can will remove any Javascript handlers, blocks, and forms from an input of HTML. This allows for use of HTML on public sites, but still be free of XSS issues. #1277 *Jamis Buck*
* Fixed the HTML scanner used by assert_tag where a infinite loop could be caused by a stray less-than sign in the input #1270 *Jamis Buck*
* Added functionality to assert_tag, so you can now do tests on the siblings of a node, to assert that some element comes before or after the element in question, or just to assert that some element exists as a sibling #1226 *Jamis Buck*
* Added better error handling for regexp caching expiration
* Fixed handling of requests coming from unknown HTTP methods not to kill the server
* Added that both AssetHelper#stylesheet_link_tag and AssetHelper#javascript_include_tag now accept an option hash as the last parameter, so you can do stuff like: stylesheet_link_tag "style", :media => "all"
* Added FormTagHelper#image_submit_tag for making submit buttons that uses images
* Added ActionController::Base.asset_host that will then be used by all the asset helpers. This enables you to easily offload static content like javascripts and images to a separate server tuned just for that.
* Fixed action/fragment caching using the filestore when a directory and a file wanted to use the same name. Now there's a .cache prefix that sidesteps the conflict #1188 *imbcmdth@hotmail.com*
* Fixed missing id uniqueness in FormTag#radio_button #1207 *Jarkko Laine*
* Fixed assert_redirected_to to work with :only_path => false #1204 *Alisdair McDiarmid*
* Fixed render_partial_collection to output an empty string instead of nil when handed an empty array #1202 *Ryan Carver*
* Improved the speed of regular expression expirations for caching by a factor of 10 #1221 *Jamis Buck*
* Removed dumping of template assigns on the rescue page as it would very easily include a ton of data making page loads take seconds (and the information was rarely helpful) #1222
* Added BenchmarkHelper that can measure the execution time of a block in a template and reports the result to the log. Example:
<% benchmark "Notes section" do %>
<%= expensive_notes_operation %>
<% end %>
Will add something like "Notes section (0.345234)" to the log.
* Added ActionController::Caching::Sweeper as an improved an easier to use sweeper. The new sweepers work on a single-step approach instead of two-steps like the old ones. Before
def after_save(record)
@list = record.is_a?(List) ? record : record.list
end
def filter(controller)
controller.expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => %w( show public feed ), :id => @list.id)
controller.expire_action(:controller => "lists", :action => "all")
@list.shares.each { |share| controller.expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => "show", :id => share.url_key) }
end
..after:
def after_save(record)
list = record.is_a?(List) ? record : record.list
expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => %w( show public feed ), :id => list.id)
expire_action(:controller => "lists", :action => "all")
list.shares.each { |share| expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => "show", :id => share.url_key) }
end
The new sweepers can also observe on the actions themselves by implementing methods according to (before|after)_$controller_$action. Example of a callback that'll be called after PagesController#update_title has been performed:
def after_pages_update_title
expire_fragment(%r{pages/#{controller.assigns["page"].id}/.*})
end
Note that missing_method is delegated to the controller instance, which is assigned in a before filter. This means that you can call expire_fragment instead of @controller.expire_fragment.
* Added that Fragments#expire_fragment now accepts as a regular expression as the name thereby deprecating expire_matched_fragments
* Fixed that fragments shouldn't use the current host and the path as part of the key like pages does
* Added conditions to around_filters just like before_filter and after_filter
## 1.8.1 (20th April, 2005) ##
* Added xml_http_request/xhr method for simulating XMLHttpRequest in functional tests #1151 [Sam Stephenson]. Example:
xhr :post, :index
* Fixed that Ajax.Base.options.asynchronous wasn't being respected in Ajax.Request (thanks Jon Casey)
* Fixed that :get, :post, and the others should take a flash array as the third argument just like process #1144 *rails@cogentdude.com*
* Fixed a problem with Flash.now
* Fixed stringification on all assigned hashes. The sacrifice is that assigns[:person] won't work in testing. Instead assigns["person"] or assigns(:person) must be used. In other words, the keys of assigns stay strings but we've added a method-based accessor to appease the need for symbols.
* Fixed that rendering a template would require a connection to the database #1146
## 1.8.0 (19th April, 2005) ##
* Added assert_tag and assert_no_tag as a much improved alternative to the deprecated assert_template_xpath_match #1126 *Jamis Buck*
* Deprecated the majority of all the testing assertions and replaced them with a much smaller core and access to all the collections the old assertions relied on. That way the regular test/unit assertions can be used against these. Added documentation about how to use it all.
* Added a wide range of new Javascript effects:
* Effect.Puff zooms the element out and makes it smoothly transparent at the same time, giving a "puff" illusion #996 [thomas@fesch.at]
After the animation is completed, the display property will be set to none.
This effect will work on relative and absolute positioned elements.
* Effect.Appear as the opposite of Effect.Fade #990 [thomas@fesch.at]
You should return elements with style="display:none;" or a like class for this to work best and have no chance of flicker.
* Effect.Squish for scaling down an element and making it disappear at the end #972 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Effect.Scale for smoothly scaling images or text up and down #972 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Effect.Fade which smoothly turns opacity from 100 to 0 and then hides the element #960 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Added Request#xml_http_request? (and an alias xhr?) to that'll return true when the request came from one of the Javascript helper methods (Ajax). This can be used to give one behavior for modern browsers supporting Ajax, another to old browsers #1127 *Sam Stephenson*
* Changed render_partial to take local assigns as the second parameter instead of an explicit object and then the assigns. So the API changes from:
<%= render_partial "account", person, "rules" => regulations.rules %>
...to:
<%= render_partial "account", :account => person, :rules => regulations.rules %>
The old API will still work, though, and render_partial "account" will still assume :account => @account.
* Added support for web servers that use PATH_INFO instead of REQUEST_URI like IIS #1014 *BradG/Nicholas Seckar*
* Added graceful handling of PUT, DELETE, and OPTIONS requests for a complete coverage of REST functionality #1136 *Josh Knowles*
* Fixed that you can now pass an alternative :href option to link_to_function/remote in order to point to somewhere other than # if the javascript fails or is turned off. You can do the same with form_remote_tag by passing in :action. #1113 *Sam Stephenson*
* Fixed DateHelper to return values on the option tags such that they'll work properly in IE with form_remote_tag #1024 *Scott Raymond*
* Fixed FormTagHelper#check_box to respect checked #1049 *DelynnB*
* Added that render_partial called from a controller will use the action name as default #828 *Dan Peterson*
* Added Element.toggle, Element.show, and Element.hide to the prototype javascript library. Toggle.display has been deprecated, but will still work #992 *Lucas Carlson*
* Added that deleting a cookie should not just set it to an empty string but also instantly expire it #1118 *todd@robotcoop.com*
* Added AssetTagHelper#image_path, AssetTagHelper#javascript_path, and AssetTagHelper#stylesheet_path #1110 *Larry Halff*
* Fixed url_for(nil) in functional tests #1116 *Alisdair McDiarmid*
* Fixed error handling of broken layouts #1115 *Michael Schubert*
* Added submit_to_remote that allows you to trigger an Ajax form submition at the click of the submission button, which allows for multiple targets in a single form through the use of multiple submit buttons #930 *yrashk@gmail.com*
* Fixed pagination to work with joins #1034 *scott@sigkill.org*
* Fixed that *rest parameter in map.connect couldn't accept an empty list #1037 *Dee Zsombor*
* Added :confirm option to link_to_remote just like link_to has #1082 *yrashk@fp.org.ua*
* Added minute_step as an option to select_minute (and the helpers that use it) to jump in larger increments than just 1 minute. At 15, it would return 0, 15, 30, 45 options #1085 *ordwaye@evergreen.edu*
* Fixed that an exception would be thrown when an empty form was submitted #1090 *jan@ulbrich-boerwang.de*
* Moved TextHelper#human_size to NumberHelper#number_to_human_size, but kept an deprecated alias to the old method name
* Fixed that the content-type for some browsers could include an additional \r which made wonky things happen #1067 *Thomas Fuchs*
* Fixed that radio buttons shouldn't have a default size attribute #1074 *hendrik@mans.de*
* Added ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_RADIO_OPTIONS that contains a hash of default options for radio buttons #1074 *hendrik@mans.de*
* Fixed that in some circumstances controllers outside of modules may have hidden ones inside modules. For example, admin/content might have been hidden by /content. #1075 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added JavascriptHelper#periodically_call_remote in order to create areas of a page that update automatically at a set interval #945 *Jon Tirsen*
* Fixed Cache#expire_matched_fragments that couldn't recognize the difference between string and url_for options #1030 *Stefan Kaes*
* Added simulation of @request.request_uri in functional tests #1038 *Jamis Buck*
* Fixed autolinking to work better in more cases #1013 *Jamis Buck*
* Added the possible of using symbols in form helpers that relate to instance variables like text_field :account, :name in addition to text_field "account", "name"'
* Fixed javascript_include_tag to output type instead of language and conform to XHTML #1018 *Rick Olson*
* Added NumberHelper for common string representations like phone number, currency, and percentage #1015 *DeLynn*
* Added pagination for scaffolding (10 items per page) #964 *mortonda@dgrmm.net*
* Added assert_no_cookie and fixed assert_cookie_equal to deal with non-existing cookies #979 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed :overwrite_param so it doesn't delete but reject elements from @request.parameters #982 *raphinou@yahoo.com*
* Added :method option to verify for ensuring that either GET, POST, etc is allowed #984 *Jamis Buck*
* Added options to set cc, bcc, subject, and body for UrlHelper#mail_to #966 *DeLynn*
* Fixed include_blank for select_hour/minute/second #527 *edward@debian.org*
* Improved the message display on the exception handler pages #963 *Johan Sorensen*
* Fixed that on very rare occasions, webrick would raise a NoMethodError: private method 'split' called for nil #1001 *Flurin Egger*
* Fixed problem with page caching #958 *Rick Olson*
## 1.7.0 (27th March, 2005) ##
* Added ActionController::Base.page_cache_extension for setting the page cache file extension (the default is .html) #903 *Andreas*
* Fixed "bad environment variable value" exception caused by Safari, Apache, and Ajax calls #918
* Fixed that pagination_helper would ignore :params #947 *Sebastian Kanthak*
* Added :owerwrite_params back to url_for and friends -- it was AWL since the introduction of Routes #921 *raphinou*
* Added :position option to link_to_remote/form_remote_tag that can be either :before, :top, :bottom, or :after and specifies where the return from the method should be inserted #952 *Matthew McCray/Sam Stephenson*
* Added Effect.Highlight to prototype.js to do Yellow Fade Technique (of 37signals' fame) on any container #952 *Sam Stephenson/court3nay*
* Added include_seconds option as the third parameter to distance_of_time_in_words which will render "less than a minute" in higher resolution ("less than 10 seconds" etc) #944 *thomas@fesch.at*
* Added fourth option to process in test cases to specify the content of the flash #949 *Jamis Buck*
* Added Verifications that allows you to specify preconditions to actions in form of statements like verify :only => :update_post, :params => "admin_privileges", :redirect_to => { :action => "settings" }, which ensure that the update_post action is only called if admin_privileges is available as a parameter -- otherwise the user is redirected to settings. #897 *Jamis Buck*
* Fixed Form.Serialize for the JavascriptHelper to also seriliaze password fields #934 *dweitzman@gmail.com*
* Added JavascriptHelper#escape_javascript as a public method (was private) and made it escape both single and double quotes and new lines #940 *mortonda@dgrmm.net*
* Added trailing_slash option to url_for, so you can generate urls ending in a slash. Note that is currently not recommended unless you need it for special reasons since it breaks caching #937 *stian@grytoyr.net*
* Added expire_matched_fragments(regular_expression) to clear out a lot of fragment caches at once #927 *Rick Olson*
* Fixed the problems with : and ? in file names for fragment caches on Windows #927 *Rick Olson*
* Added TextHelper#human_size for formatting file sizes, like human_size(1234567) => 1.2 MB #943 *thomas@fesch.at*
* Fixed link_to :confirm #936 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Improved error reporting especially around never shallowing exceptions. Debugging helpers should be much easier now #980 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed Toggle.display in prototype.js #902 *Lucas Carlson*
## 1.6.0 (22th March, 2005) ##
* Added a JavascriptHelper and accompanying prototype.js library that opens the world of Ajax to Action Pack with a large array of options for dynamically interacting with an application without reloading the page #884 *Sam Stephenson/David*
* Added pagination support through both a controller and helper add-on #817 *Sam Stephenson*
* Fixed routing and helpers to make Rails work on non-vhost setups #826 *Nicholas Seckar/Tobias Lütke*
* Added a much improved Flash module that allows for finer-grained control on expiration and allows you to flash the current action #839 [Caio Chassot]. Example of flash.now:
class SomethingController < ApplicationController
def save
...
if @something.save
# will redirect, use flash
flash[:message] = 'Save successful'
redirect_to :action => 'list'
else
# no redirect, message is for current action, use flash.now
flash.now[:message] = 'Save failed, review'
render_action 'edit'
end
end
end
* Added to_param call for parameters when composing an url using url_for from something else than strings #812 [Sam Stephenson]. Example:
class Page
def initialize(number)
@number = number
end
# ...
def to_param
@number.to_s
end
end
You can now use instances of Page with url_for:
class BarController < ApplicationController
def baz
page = Page.new(4)
url = url_for :page => page # => "http://foo/bar/baz?page=4"
end
end
* Fixed form helpers to query Model#id_before_type_cast instead of Model#id as a temporary workaround for Ruby 1.8.2 warnings #818 *DeLynn B*
* Fixed TextHelper#markdown to use blank? instead of empty? so it can deal with nil strings passed #814 *Johan Sörensen*
* Added TextHelper#simple_format as a non-dependency text presentation helper #814 *Johan Sörensen*
* Added that the html options disabled, readonly, and multiple can all be treated as booleans. So specifying disabled => :true will give disabled="disabled". #809 *mindel*
* Added path collection syntax for Routes that will gobble up the rest of the url and pass it on to the controller #830 [rayners]. Example:
map.connect 'categories/*path_info', :controller => 'categories', :action => 'show'
A request for /categories/top-level-cat, would give @params[:path_info] with "top-level-cat".
A request for /categories/top-level-cat/level-1-cat, would give @params[:path_info] with "top-level-cat/level-1-cat" and so forth.
The @params[:path_info] return is really an array, but where to_s has been overwritten to do join("/").
* Fixed options_for_select on selected line issue #624 *Florian Weber*
* Added CaptureHelper with CaptureHelper#capture and CaptureHelper#content_for. See documentation in helper #837 *Tobias Lütke*
* Fixed :anchor use in url_for #821 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Removed the reliance on PATH_INFO as it was causing problems for caching and inhibited the new non-vhost support #822 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added assigns shortcut for @response.template.assigns to controller test cases [Jeremy Kemper]. Example:
Before:
def test_list
assert_equal 5, @response.template.assigns['recipes'].size
assert_equal 8, @response.template.assigns['categories'].size
end
After:
def test_list
assert_equal 5, assigns(:recipes).size
assert_equal 8, assigns(:categories).size
end
* Added TagHelper#image_tag and deprecated UrlHelper#link_image_to (recommended approach is to combine image_tag and link_to instead)
* Fixed textilize to be resilient to getting nil parsed (by using Object#blank? instead of String#empty?)
* Fixed that the :multipart option in FormTagHelper#form_tag would be ignored *Yonatan Feldman*
## 1.5.1 (7th March, 2005) ##
* Fixed that the routes.rb file wouldn't be found on symlinked setups due to File.expand_path #793 *piotr@t-p-l.com*
* Changed ActiveRecordStore to use Marshal instead of YAML as the latter proved troublesome in persisting circular dependencies. Updating existing applications MUST clear their existing session table from data to start using this updated store #739 *Jamis Buck*
* Added shortcut :id assignment to render_component and friends (before you had to go through :params) #784 *Lucas Carlson*
* Fixed that map.connect should convert arguments to strings #780 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added UrlHelper#link_to_if/link_to_unless to enable other conditions that just link_to_unless_current #757 *mindel*
* Fixed that single quote was not escaped in a UrlHelper#link_to javascript confirm #549 *Scott Barron*
* Removed the default border on link_image_to (it broke xhtml strict) -- can be specified with :border => 0 #517 *?/caleb*
* Fixed that form helpers would treat string and symbol keys differently in html_options (and possibly create duplicate entries) #112 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed that broken pipe errors (clients disconnecting in mid-request) could bring down a fcgi process
* Added the original exception message to session recall errors (so you can see which class wasnt required)
* Fixed that RAILS_ROOT might not be defined when AP was loaded, so do a late initialization of the ROUTE_FILE #761 *Scott Barron*
* Fix request.path_info and clear up LoadingModule behavior #754 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed caching to be aware of extensions (so you can cache files like api.wsdl or logo.png) #734 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed that Routes would raise NameErrors if a controller component contains characters that are not valid constant names #733 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added PATH_INFO access from the request that allows urls like the following to be interpreted by rails: http://www.example.com/dispatcher.cgi/controller/action -- that makes it possible to use rails as a CGI under lighttpd and would also allow (for example) Rublog to be ported to rails without breaking existing links to Rublog-powered blogs. #728 *Jamis Buck*
* Fixed that caching the root would result in .html not index.html #731, #734 *alisdair/Nicholas Seckar*
## 1.5.0 (24th February, 2005) ##
* Added Routing as a replacement for mod_rewrite pretty urls [Nicholas Seckar]. Read more in ActionController::Base.url_for and on http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/9
* Added components that allows you to call other actions for their rendered response while execution another action. You can either delegate the entire response rendering or you can mix a partial response in with your other content. Read more on http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/14
* Fixed that proxy IPs do not follow all RFC1918 nets #251 *caleb@aei-tech.com*
* Added Base#render_to_string to parse a template and get the result back as a string #479
* Fixed that send_file/data can work even if render* has been called before in action processing to render the content of a file to be send for example #601
* Added FormOptionsHelper#time_zone_select and FormOptionsHelper#time_zone_options_for_select to work with the new value object TimeZone in Active Support #688 *Jamis Buck*
* Added FormHelper#file_field and FormTagHelper#file_field_tag for creating file upload fields
* Added :order option for date_select that allows control over the order in which the date dropdowns is used and which of them should be used #619 [Tim Bates]. Examples:
date_select("post", "written_on", :order => [:day, :month, :year])
date_select("user", "birthday", :order => [:month, :day])
* Added ActionView::Base.register_template_handler for easy integration of an alternative template language to ERb and Builder. See test/controller/custom_handler_test.rb for a usage example #656 *Jamis Buck*
* Added AssetTagHelper that provides methods for linking a HTML page together with other assets, such as javascripts, stylesheets, and feeds.
* Added FormTagHelper that provides a number of methods for creating form tags that doesn't rely on conventions with an object assigned to the template like FormHelper does. With the FormTagHelper, you provide the names and values yourself.
* Added Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq to the countries list used by FormOptions#country_select and FormOptions#country_options_for_select
* Renamed link_to_image to link_image_to (since thats what it actually does) -- kept alias for the old method name
* Fixed textilize for RedCloth3 to keep doing hardbreaks
* Fixed that assert_template_xpath_matches did not indicate when a path was not found #658 *Eric Hodel*
* Added TextHelper#auto_link to turn email addresses and urls into ahrefs
* Fixed that on validation errors, scaffold couldn't find template #654 *mindel*
* Added Base#hide_action(*names) to hide public methods from a controller that would otherwise have been callable through the URL. For the majority of cases, its preferred just to make the methods you don't want to expose protected or private (so they'll automatically be hidden) -- but if you must have a public method, this is a way to make it uncallable. Base#hidden_actions retrieve the list of all hidden actions for the controller #644 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Fixed that a bunch of methods from ActionController::Base was accessible as actions (callable through a URL) when they shouldn't have been #644 *Nicholas Seckar*
* Added UrlHelper#current_page?(options) method to check if the url_for options passed corresponds to the current page
* Fixed https handling on other ports than 443 *Alan Gano*
* Added follow_redirect method for functional tests that'll get-request the redirect that was made. Example:
def test_create_post
post :create, "post" => { "title" => "Exciting!" }
assert_redirected_to :action => "show"
follow_redirect
assert_rendered_file "post/show"
end
Limitation: Only works for redirects to other actions within the same controller.
* Fixed double requiring of models with the same name as the controller
* Fixed that query params could be forced to nil on a POST due to the raw post fix #562 *moriq@moriq.com*
* Fixed that cookies shouldn't be frozen in TestRequest #571 *Eric Hodel*
## 1.4.0 (January 25th, 2005) ##
* Fixed problems with ActiveRecordStore under the development environment in Rails
* Fixed the ordering of attributes in the xml-decleration of Builder #540 *woeye*
* Added @request.raw_post as a convenience access to @request.env['RAW_POST_DATA'] #534 *Tobias Lütke*
* Added support for automatic id-based indexing for lists of items #532 [dblack]. Example:
<% @students.each do |@student| %>
<%= text_field "student[]", "first_name", :size => "20" %>
<%= text_field "student[]", "last_name" %>
<%= text_field "student[]", "grade", :size => "5" %>
<% end %>
...would produce, for say David Black with id 123 and a grace of C+:
* Added :application_prefix to url_for and friends that makes it easier to setup Rails in non-vhost environments #516 *Jamis Buck*
* Added :encode option to mail_to that'll allow you to masquarede the email address behind javascript or hex encoding #494 *Lucas Carlson*
* Fixed that the content-header was being set to application/octet_stream instead of application/octet-stream on send_date/file *Alexey*
* Removed the need for passing the binding when using CacheHelper#cache
* Added TestResponse#binary_content that'll return as a string the data sent through send_data/send_file for testing #500 *Alexey*
* Added @request.env['RAW_POST_DATA'] for people who need access to the data before Ruby's CGI has parsed it #505 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed that a default fragment store wan't being set to MemoryStore as intended.
* Fixed that all redirect and render calls now return true, so you can use the pattern of "do and return". Example:
def show
redirect_to(:action => "login") and return unless @person.authenticated?
render_text "I won't happen unless the person is authenticated"
end
* Added that renders and redirects called in before_filters will have the same effect as returning false: stopping the chain. Example:
class WeblogController
before_filter { |c| c.send(:redirect_to_url("http://www.farfaraway.com")}) }
def hello
render_text "I will never be called"
end
end
* Added that only one render or redirect can happen per action. The first call wins and subsequent calls are ignored. Example:
def do_something
redirect_to :action => "elsewhere"
render_action "overthere"
end
Only the redirect happens. The rendering call is simply ignored.
## 1.3.1 (January 18th, 2005) ##
* Fixed a bug where cookies wouldn't be set if a symbol was used instead of a string as the key
* Added assert_cookie_equal to assert the contents of a named cookie
* Fixed bug in page caching that prevented it from working at all
## 1.3.0 (January 17th, 2005) ##
* Added an extensive caching module that offers three levels of granularity (page, action, fragment) and a variety of stores.
Read more in ActionController::Caching.
* Added the option of passing a block to ActiveRecordHelper#form in order to add more to the auto-generated form #469 *dom@sisna.com*
form("entry", :action => "sign") do |form|
form << content_tag("b", "Department")
form << collection_select("department", "id", @departments, "id", "name")
end
* Added arrays as a value option for params in url_for and friends #467 [Eric Anderson]. Example:
url_for(:controller => 'user', :action => 'delete', :params => { 'username' => %( paul john steve ) } )
# => /user/delete?username[]=paul&username[]=john&username[]=steve
* Fixed that controller tests can now assert on the use of cookies #466 *Alexey*
* Fixed that send_file would "remember" all the files sent by adding to the headers again and again #458 *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed url rewriter confusion when the controller or action name was a substring of the controller_prefix or action_prefix
* Added conditional layouts like layout "weblog_standard", :except => :rss #452 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Fixed that MemCacheStore wasn't included by default and added default MemCache object pointing to localhost #447 *Lucas Carlson*
* Added fourth argument to render_collection_of_partials that allows you to specify local_assigns -- just like render_partial #432 *Ryan Davis*
* Fixed that host would choke when cgi.host returned nil #432 *Tobias Lütke*
* Added that form helpers now take an index option #448 *Tim Bates*
Example:
text_field "person", "name", "index" => 3
Becomes:
* Fixed three issues with retrying breakpoints #417 *Florian Gross*
1. Don't screw up pages that use multiple values for the same parameter (?foo=bar&foo=qux was converted to ?foo=barqux)
2. Don't screw up all forms when you click the "Retry with Breakpoint" link multiple times instead of reloading
(This caused the parameters to be added multiple times for GET forms leading to trouble.)
3. Don't add ?BP-RETRY=1 multiple times
* Added that all renders and redirects now return false, so they can be used as the last line in before_filters to stop execution.
Before:
def authenticate
unless @session[:authenticated]
redirect_to :controller => "account", :action => "login"
return false
end
end
After:
def authenticate
redirect_to(:controller => "account", :action => "login") unless @session[:authenticated]
end
* Added conditional filters #431 [Marcel Molina Jr.]. Example:
class JournalController < ActionController::Base
# only require authentication if the current action is edit or delete
before_filter :authorize, :only_on => [ :edit, :delete ]
private
def authorize
# redirect to login unless authenticated
end
end
* Added Base#render_nothing as a cleaner way of doing render_text "" when you're not interested in returning anything but an empty response.
* Added the possibility of passing nil to UrlHelper#link_to to use the link itself as the name
## 1.2.0 (January 4th, 2005) ##
* Added MemCacheStore for storing session data in Danga's MemCache system *Bob Cottrell*
Depends on: MemCached server (http://www.danga.com/memcached/), MemCache client (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/memcache/)
* Added thread-safety to the DRbStore #66, #389 *Ben Stiglitz*
* Added DateHelper#select_time and DateHelper#select_second #373 *Scott Baron*
* Added :host and :protocol options to url_for and friends to redirect to another host and protocol than the current.
* Added class declaration for the MissingFile exception #388 *Kent Sibilev*
* Added "short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s)" to redirects to fulfill compliance with RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) section 10.3.3 #397 *Tim Bates*
* Added second boolean parameter to Base.redirect_to_url and Response#redirect to control whether the redirect is permanent or not (301 vs 302) #375 *Hodel*
* Fixed redirects when the controller and action is named the same. Still haven't fixed same controller, module, and action, though #201 *Josh Peek*
* Fixed problems with running multiple functional tests in Rails under 1.8.2 by including hack for test/unit weirdness
* Fixed that @request.remote_ip didn't work in the test environment #369 *Bruno Mattarollo*
## 1.1.0 ##
* Added search through session to clear out association caches at the end of each request. This makes it possible to place Active Record objects
in the session without worrying about stale data in the associations (the main object is still subject to caching, naturally) #347 *Tobias Lütke*
* Added more informative exception when using helper :some_helper and the helper requires another file that fails, you'll get an
error message tells you what file actually failed to load, rather than falling back on assuming it was the helper file itself #346 *dblack*
* Added use of *_before_type_cast for all input and text fields. This is helpful for getting "100,000" back on a integer-based
validation where the value would normally be "100".
* Added Request#port_string to get something like ":8080" back on 8080 and "" on 80 (or 443 with https).
* Added Request#domain (returns string) and Request#subdomains (returns array).
* Added POST support for the breakpoint retries, so form processing that raises an exception can be retried with the original request *Florian Gross*
* Fixed regression with Base#reset_session that wouldn't use the DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS *adam@the-kramers.net*
* Fixed error rendering of rxml documents to not just swallow the exception and return 0 (still not guessing the right line, but hey)
* Fixed that textilize and markdown would instantiate their engines even on empty strings. This also fixes #333 *Ulysses*
* Fixed UrlHelper#link_to_unless so it doesn't care if the id is a string or fixnum *Ryan Davis*
## 1.0.1 ##
* Fixed a bug that would cause an ApplicationController to require itself three times and hence cause filters to be run three times *evl*
## 1.0 ##
* Added that controllers will now attempt to require a model dependency with their name and in a singular attempt for their name.
So both PostController and PostsController will automatically have the post.rb model required. If no model is found, no error is raised,
as it is then expected that no match is available and the programmer will have included his own models.
* Fixed DateHelper#date_select so that you can pass include_blank as an option even if you don't use start_year and end_year #59 *what-a-day*
* Added that controllers will now search for a layout in $template_root/layouts/$controller_name.r(html|xml), so PostsController will look
for layouts/posts.rhtml or layouts/posts.rxml and automatically configure this layout if found #307 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Added FormHelper#radio_button to work with radio buttons like its already possible with check boxes *Michael Koziarski*
* Added TemplateError#backtrace that makes it much easier to debug template errors from unit and functional tests
* Added display of error messages with scaffolded form pages
* Added option to ERB templates to swallow newlines by using <% if something -%> instead of just <% if something %>. Example:
class SomeController < ApplicationController
<% if options[:scaffold] %>
scaffold :<%= singular_name %>
<% end %>
helper :post
...produces this on post as singular_name:
class SomeController < ApplicationController
scaffold :post
helper :post
...where as:
class SomeController < ApplicationController
<% if options[:scaffold] -%>
scaffold :<%= singular_name %>
<% end -%>
helper :post
...produces:
class SomeController < ApplicationController
scaffold :post
helper :post
*This undocumented gem for ERb was uncovered by bitsweat*
* Fixed CgiRequest so that it'll now accept session options with Symbols as keys (as the documentation points out) *Suggested by Andreas*
* Added that render_partial will always by default include a counter with value 1 unless there is a counter passed in via the
local_assigns hash that overrides it. As a result, render_collection_of_partials can still be written in terms of render_partial
and partials that make use of a counter can be called without problems from both render_collection_of_partials as well as
render_partial #295 *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Fixed CgiRequest#out to fall back to #write if $stdout doesn't have #syswrite *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed all helpers so that they use XHTML compliant double quotes for values instead of single quotes *htonl/Jeremy Kemper*
* Added link_to_image(src, options = {}, html_options = {}). Documentation:
Creates a link tag to the image residing at the +src+ using an URL created by the set of +options+. See the valid options in
link:classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000021. It's also possible to pass a string instead of an options hash to
get a link tag that just points without consideration. The html_options works jointly for the image and ahref tag by
letting the following special values enter the options on the image and the rest goes to the ahref:
::alt: If no alt text is given, the file name part of the +src+ is used (capitalized and without the extension)
::size: Supplied as "XxY", so "30x45" becomes width="30" and height="45"
::align: Sets the alignment, no special features
The +src+ can be supplied as a...
* full path, like "/my_images/image.gif"
* file name, like "rss.gif", that gets expanded to "/images/rss.gif"
* file name without extension, like "logo", that gets expanded to "/images/logo.png"
* Fixed to_input_field_tag so it no longer explicitly uses InstanceTag.value if value was specified in the options hash *evl*
* Added the possibility of having validate be protected for assert_(in)valid_column #263 *Tobias Lütke*
* Added that ActiveRecordHelper#form now calls url_for on the :action option.
* Added all the HTTP methods as alternatives to the generic "process" for functional testing #276 [Tobias Lütke]. Examples:
# Calls Controller#miletone with a GET request
process :milestone
# Calls Controller#miletone with a POST request that has parameters
post :milestone, { "name" => "David" }
# Calls Controller#milestone with a HEAD request that has both parameters and session data
head :milestone, { "id" => 1 }, { "user_id" => 23 }
This is especially useful for testing idiomatic REST web services.
* Added proper handling of HEAD requests, so that content isn't returned (Request#head? added as well) #277 *Eric Hodel*
* Added indifference to whether @headers["Content-Type"], @headers["Content-type"], or @headers["content-type"] is used.
* Added TestSession#session_id that returns an empty string to make it easier to functional test applications that doesn't use
cookie-based sessions #275 *jcf*
* Fixed that cached template loading would still check the file system to see if the file existed #258 *Andreas Schwarz*
* Added options to tailor header tag, div id, and div class on ActiveRecordHelper#error_messages_for *Josh Peek*
* Added graceful handling of non-alphanumeric names and misplaced brackets in input parameters *Jeremy Kemper*
* Added a new container for cookies that makes them more intuative to use. The old methods of cookie and @cookies have been deprecated.
Examples for writing:
cookies["user_name"] = "david" # => Will set a simple session cookie
cookies["login"] = { "value" => "XJ-122", "expires" => Time.now + 360} # => Will set a cookie that expires in 1 hour
Examples for reading:
cookies["user_name"] # => "david"
cookies.size # => 2
Read more in ActionController::Cookies
NOTE: If you were using the old accessor (cookies instead of @cookies), this could potentially break your code -- if you expect a full cookie object!
* Added the opportunity to defined method_missing on a controller which will handle all requests for actions not otherwise defined #223 *timb*
* Fixed AbstractRequest#remote_ip for users going through proxies - Patch #228 *Eric Hodel*
* Added Request#ssl? which is shorthand for @request.protocol == "https://"
* Added the choice to call form_tag with no arguments (resulting in a form posting to current action) *Jeremy Kemper*
* Upgraded to Builder 1.2.1
* Added :module as an alias for :controller_prefix to url_for and friends, so you can do redirect_to(:module => "shop", :controller => "purchases")
and go to /shop/purchases/
* Added support for controllers in modules through @params["module"].
* Added reloading for dependencies under cached environments like FastCGI and mod_ruby. This makes it possible to use those environments for development.
This is turned on by default, but can be turned off with ActionController::Base.reload_dependencies = false in production environments.
NOTE: This will only have an effect if you use the new model, service, and observer class methods to mark dependencies. All libraries loaded through
require will be "forever" cached. You can, however, use ActionController::Base.load_or_require("library") to get this behavior outside of the new
dependency style.
* Added that controllers will automatically require their own helper if possible. So instead of doing:
class MsgController < ApplicationController
helper :msg
end
...you can just do:
class MsgController < ApplicationController
end
* Added dependencies_on(layer) to query the dependencies of a controller. Examples:
MsgController.dependencies_on(:model) # => [ :post, :comment, :attachment ]
MsgController.dependencies_on(:service) # => [ :notification_service ]
MsgController.dependencies_on(:observer) # => [ :comment_observer ]
* Added a new dependency model with the class methods model, service, and observer. Example:
class MsgController < ApplicationController
model :post, :comment, :attachment
service :notification_service
observer :comment_observer
end
These new "keywords" remove the need for explicitly calling 'require' in most cases. The observer method even instantiates the
observer as well as requiring it.
* Fixed that link_to would escape & in the url again after url_for already had done so
## 0.9.5 (28) ##
* Added helper_method to designate that a given private or protected method you should available as a helper in the view. *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed assert_rendered_file so it actually verifies if that was the rendered file *htonl*
* Added the option for sharing partial spacer templates just like partials themselves *radsaq*
* Fixed that Russia was named twice in country_select *alexey*
* Fixed request_origin to use remote_ip instead of remote_addr *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed link_to breakage when nil was passed for html_options *alexey*
* Fixed redirect_to on a virtual server setup with apache with a port other than the default where it would forget the port number *seanohalpin*
* Fixed that auto-loading webrick on Windows would cause file uploads to fail *Jeremy Kemper*
* Fixed issues with sending files on WEBrick by setting the proper binmode *Jeremy Kemper*
* Added send_data as an alternative to send_file when the stream is not read off the filesystem but from a database or generated live *Jeremy Kemper*
* Added a new way to include helpers that doesn't require the include hack and can go without the explicit require. *Jeremy Kemper*
Before:
module WeblogHelper
def self.included(controller) #:nodoc:
controller.ancestors.include?(ActionController::Base) ? controller.add_template_helper(self) : super
end
end
require 'weblog_helper'
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
include WeblogHelper
end
After:
module WeblogHelper
end
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
helper :weblog
end
* Added a default content-type of "text/xml" to .rxml renders *Ryan Platte*
* Fixed that when /controller/index was requested by the browser, url_for would generates wrong URLs *Ryan Platte*
* Fixed a bug that would share cookies between users when using FastCGI and mod_ruby *The Robot Co-op*
* Added an optional third hash parameter to the process method in functional tests that takes the session data to be used *alexey*
* Added UrlHelper#mail_to to make it easier to create mailto: style ahrefs
* Added better error messages for layouts declared with the .rhtml extension (which they shouldn't) *geech*
* Added another case to DateHelper#distance_in_minutes to return "less than a minute" instead of "0 minutes" and "1 minute" instead of "1 minutes"
* Added a hidden field to checkboxes generated with FormHelper#check_box that will make sure that the unchecked value (usually 0)
is sent even if the checkbox is not checked. This relieves the controller from doing custom checking if the checkbox wasn't
checked. BEWARE: This might conflict with your run-on-the-mill work-around code. *Tobias Lütke*
* Fixed error_message_on to just use the first if more than one error had been added *Marcel Molina Jr.*
* Fixed that URL rewriting with /controller/ was working but /controller was not and that you couldn't use :id on index *geech*
* Fixed a bug with link_to where the :confirm option wouldn't be picked up if the link was a straight url instead of an option hash
* Changed scaffolding of forms to use