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*SVN*
* Added Base#update_attributes that'll accept a hash of attributes and save the record (returning true if it passed validation, false otherwise).
Before:
person.attributes = @params["person"]
person.save
Now:
person.update_attributes(@params["person"])
* Added Base.destroy and Base.delete to remove records without holding a reference to them first.
*1.2.0*
* Added Base.validates_inclusion_of that validates whether the value of the specified attribute is available in a particular enumerable
object. [what-a-day]
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_inclusion_of :gender, :in=>%w( m f ), :message=>"woah! what are you then!??!!"
validates_inclusion_of :age, :in=>0..99
end
* Added acts_as_list that can decorates an existing class with methods like move_higher/lower, move_to_top/bottom. [Tobias Luetke] Example:
class TodoItem < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_list :scope => :todo_list_id
belongs_to :todo_list
end
* Added acts_as_tree that can decorates an existing class with a many to many relationship with itself. Perfect for categories in
categories and the likes. [Tobias Luetke]
* Added that Active Records will automatically record creation and/or update timestamps of database objects if fields of the names
created_at/created_on or updated_at/updated_on are present. [Tobias Luetke]
* Added Base.default_error_messages as a hash of all the error messages used in the validates_*_of so they can be changed in one place [Tobias Luetke]
* Added automatic transaction block around AssociationCollection.<<, AssociationCollection.delete, and AssociationCollection.destroy_all
* Fixed that Base#find will return an array if given an array -- regardless of the number of elements #270 [Marten]
* Fixed that has_and_belongs_to_many would generate bad sql when naming conventions differed from using vanilla "id" everywhere [RedTerror]
* Added a better exception for when a type column is used in a table without the intention of triggering single-table inheritance. Example:
ActiveRecord::SubclassNotFound: The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: 'bad_class!'.
This error is raised because the column 'type' is reserved for storing the class in case of inheritance.
Please rename this column if you didn't intend it to be used for storing the inheritance class or
overwrite Company.inheritance_column to use another column for that information.
* Added that single-table inheritance will only kick in if the inheritance_column (by default "type") is present. Otherwise, inheritance won't
have any magic side effects.
* Added the possibility of marking fields as being in error without adding a message (using nil) to it that'll get displayed wth full_messages #208 [mjobin]
* Fixed Base.errors to be indifferent as to whether strings or symbols are used. Examples:
Before:
errors.add(:name, "must be shorter") if name.size > 10
errors.on(:name) # => "must be shorter"
errors.on("name") # => nil
After:
errors.add(:name, "must be shorter") if name.size > 10
errors.on(:name) # => "must be shorter"
errors.on("name") # => "must be shorter"
* Added Base.validates_format_of that Validates whether the value of the specified attribute is of the correct form by matching
it against the regular expression provided. [Marcel]
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_format_of :email, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/, :on => :create
end
* Added Base.validates_length_of that delegates to add_on_boundary_breaking #312 [Tobias Luetke]. Example:
Validates that the specified attribute matches the length restrictions supplied in either:
- configuration[:minimum]
- configuration[:maximum]
- configuration[:is]
- configuration[:within] (aka. configuration[:in])
Only one option can be used at a time.
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_length_of :first_name, :maximum=>30
validates_length_of :last_name, :maximum=>30, :message=>"less than %d if you don't mind"
validates_length_of :user_name, :within => 6..20, :too_long => "pick a shorter name", :too_short => "pick a longer name"
validates_length_of :fav_bra_size, :minimum=>1, :too_short=>"please enter at least %d character"
validates_length_of :smurf_leader, :is=>4, :message=>"papa is spelled with %d characters... don't play me."
end
* Added Base.validate_presence as an alternative to implementing validate and doing errors.add_on_empty yourself.
* Added Base.validates_uniqueness_of that alidates whether the value of the specified attributes are unique across the system.
Useful for making sure that only one user can be named "davidhh".
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_uniqueness_of :user_name
end
When the record is created, a check is performed to make sure that no record exist in the database with the given value for the specified
attribute (that maps to a column). When the record is updated, the same check is made but disregarding the record itself.
* Added Base.validates_confirmation_of that encapsulates the pattern of wanting to validate a password or email address field with a confirmation. Example:
Model:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_confirmation_of :password
end
View:
<%= password_field "person", "password" %>
<%= password_field "person", "password_confirmation" %>
The person has to already have a password attribute (a column in the people table), but the password_confirmation is virtual.
It exists only as an in-memory variable for validating the password. This check is performed both on create and update.
* Added Base.validates_acceptance_of that encapsulates the pattern of wanting to validate the acceptance of a terms of service check box (or similar agreement). Example:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_acceptance_of :terms_of_service
end
The terms_of_service attribute is entirely virtual. No database column is needed. This check is performed both on create and update.
NOTE: The agreement is considered valid if it's set to the string "1". This makes it easy to relate it to an HTML checkbox.
* Added validation macros to make the stackable just like the lifecycle callbacks. Examples:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
validate { |record| record.errors.add("name", "too short") unless name.size > 10 }
validate { |record| record.errors.add("name", "too long") unless name.size < 20 }
validate_on_create :validate_password
private
def validate_password
errors.add("password", "too short") unless password.size > 6
end
end
* Added the option for sanitizing find_by_sql and the offset parts in regular finds [Sam Stephenson]. Examples:
Project.find_all ["category = ?", category_name], "created ASC", ["? OFFSET ?", 15, 20]
Post.find_by_sql ["SELECT * FROM posts WHERE author = ? AND created > ?", author_id, start_date]
* Fixed value quoting in all generated SQL statements, so that integers are not surrounded in quotes and that all sanitation are happening
through the database's own quoting routine. This should hopefully make it lots easier for new adapters that doesn't accept '1' for integer
columns.
* Fixed has_and_belongs_to_many guessing of foreign key so that keys are generated correctly for models like SomeVerySpecialClient
[Florian Weber]
* Added counter_sql option for has_many associations [bitsweat]. Documentation:
<tt>:counter_sql</tt> - specify a complete SQL statement to fetch the size of the association. If +:finder_sql+ is
specified but +:counter_sql+, +:counter_sql+ will be generated by replacing SELECT ... FROM with SELECT COUNT(*) FROM.
* Fixed that methods wrapped in callbacks still return their original result #260 [bitsweat]
* Fixed the Inflector to handle the movie/movies pair correctly #261 [Scott Baron]
* Added named bind-style variable interpolation #281 [Michael Koziarski]. Example:
Person.find(["id = :id and first_name = :first_name", { :id => 5, :first_name = "bob' or 1=1" }])
* Added bind-style variable interpolation for the condition arrays that uses the adapter's quote method [Michael Koziarski]
Before:
find_first([ "user_name = '%s' AND password = '%s'", user_name, password ])]
find_first([ "firm_id = %s", firm_id ])] # unsafe!
After:
find_first([ "user_name = ? AND password = ?", user_name, password ])]
find_first([ "firm_id = ?", firm_id ])]
* Added CSV format for fixtures #272 [what-a-day]. (See the new and expanded documentation on fixtures for more information)
* Fixed fixtures using primary key fields called something else than "id" [dave]
* Added proper handling of time fields that are turned into Time objects with the dummy date of 2000/1/1 [HariSeldon]
* Added reverse order of deleting fixtures, so referential keys can be maintained #247 [Tim Bates]
* Added relative path search for sqlite dbfiles in database.yml (if RAILS_ROOT is defined) #233 [bitsweat]
* Added option to establish_connection where you'll be able to leave out the parameter to have it use the RAILS_ENV environment variable
* Fixed problems with primary keys and postgresql sequences (#230) [Tim Bates]
* Added reloading for associations 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 ActiveRecord::Base.reload_dependencies = false in production environments.
NOTE: This will only have an effect if you let the associations manage the requiring of model classes. All libraries loaded through
require will be "forever" cached. You can, however, use ActiveRecord::Base.load_or_require("library") to get this behavior outside of the
auto-loading associations.
* Added ERB capabilities to the fixture files for dynamic fixture generation. You don't need to do anything, just include ERB blocks like:
david:
id: 1
name: David
jamis:
id: 2
name: Jamis
<% for digit in 3..10 %>
dev_<%= digit %>:
id: <%= digit %>
name: fixture_<%= digit %>
<% end %>
* Changed the yaml fixture searcher to look in the root of the fixtures directory, so when you before could have something like:
fixtures/developers/fixtures.yaml
fixtures/accounts/fixtures.yaml
...you now need to do:
fixtures/developers.yaml
fixtures/accounts.yaml
* Changed the fixture format from:
name: david
data:
id: 1
name: David Heinemeier Hansson
birthday: 1979-10-15
profession: Systems development
---
name: steve
data:
id: 2
name: Steve Ross Kellock
birthday: 1974-09-27
profession: guy with keyboard
...to:
david:
id: 1
name: David Heinemeier Hansson
birthday: 1979-10-15
profession: Systems development
steve:
id: 2
name: Steve Ross Kellock
birthday: 1974-09-27
profession: guy with keyboard
The change is NOT backwards compatible. Fixtures written in the old YAML style needs to be rewritten!
* All associations will now attempt to require the classes that they associate to. Relieving the need for most explicit 'require' statements.
*1.1.0* (34)
* Added automatic fixture setup and instance variable availability. Fixtures can also be automatically
instantiated in instance variables relating to their names using the following style:
class FixturesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :developers # you can add more with comma separation
def test_developers
assert_equal 3, @developers.size # the container for all the fixtures is automatically set
assert_kind_of Developer, @david # works like @developers["david"].find
assert_equal "David Heinemeier Hansson", @david.name
end
end
* Added HasAndBelongsToManyAssociation#push_with_attributes(object, join_attributes) that can create associations in the join table with additional
attributes. This is really useful when you have information that's only relevant to the join itself, such as a "added_on" column for an association
between post and category. The added attributes will automatically be injected into objects retrieved through the association similar to the piggy-back
approach:
post.categories.push_with_attributes(category, :added_on => Date.today)
post.categories.first.added_on # => Date.today
NOTE: The categories table doesn't have a added_on column, it's the categories_post join table that does!
* Fixed that :exclusively_dependent and :dependent can't be activated at the same time on has_many associations [bitsweat]
* Fixed that database passwords couldn't be all numeric [bitsweat]
* Fixed that calling id would create the instance variable for new_records preventing them from being saved correctly [bitsweat]
* Added sanitization feature to HasManyAssociation#find_all so it works just like Base.find_all [Sam Stephenson/bitsweat]
* Added that you can pass overlapping ids to find without getting duplicated records back [bitsweat]
* Added that Base.benchmark returns the result of the block [bitsweat]
* Fixed problem with unit tests on Windows with SQLite [paterno]
* Fixed that quotes would break regular non-yaml fixtures [Dmitry Sabanin/daft]
* Fixed fixtures on windows with line endings cause problems under unix / mac [Tobias Luetke]
* Added HasAndBelongsToManyAssociation#find(id) that'll search inside the collection and find the object or record with that id
* Added :conditions option to has_and_belongs_to_many that works just like the one on all the other associations
* Added AssociationCollection#clear to remove all associations from has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many associations without destroying the records [geech]
* Added type-checking and remove in 1-instead-of-N sql statements to AssociationCollection#delete [geech]
* Added a return of self to AssociationCollection#<< so appending can be chained, like project << Milestone.create << Milestone.create [geech]
* Added Base#hash and Base#eql? which means that all of the equality using features of array and other containers now works:
[ Person.find(1), Person.find(2), Person.find(3) ] & [ Person.find(1), Person.find(4) ] # => [ Person.find(1) ]
* Added :uniq as an option to has_and_belongs_to_many which will automatically ensure that AssociateCollection#uniq is called
before pulling records out of the association. This is especially useful for three-way (and above) has_and_belongs_to_many associations.
* Added AssociateCollection#uniq which is especially useful for has_and_belongs_to_many associations that can include duplicates,
which is common on associations that also use metadata. Usage: post.categories.uniq
* Fixed respond_to? to use a subclass specific hash instead of an Active Record-wide one
* Fixed has_and_belongs_to_many to treat associations between classes in modules properly [Florian Weber]
* Added a NoMethod exception to be raised when query and writer methods are called for attributes that doesn't exist [geech]
* Added a more robust version of Fixtures that throws meaningful errors when on formatting issues [geech]
* Added Base#transaction as a compliment to Base.transaction for prettier use in instance methods [geech]
* Improved the speed of respond_to? by placing the dynamic methods lookup table in a hash [geech]
* Added that any additional fields added to the join table in a has_and_belongs_to_many association
will be placed as attributes when pulling records out through has_and_belongs_to_many associations.
This is helpful when have information about the association itself that you want available on retrival.
* Added better loading exception catching and RubyGems retries to the database adapters [alexeyv]
* Fixed bug with per-model transactions [daniel]
* Fixed Base#transaction so that it returns the result of the last expression in the transaction block [alexeyv]
* Added Fixture#find to find the record corresponding to the fixture id. The record
class name is guessed by using Inflector#classify (also new) on the fixture directory name.
Before: Document.find(@documents["first"]["id"])
After : @documents["first"].find
* Fixed that the table name part of column names ("TABLE.COLUMN") wasn't removed properly [Andreas Schwarz]
* Fixed a bug with Base#size when a finder_sql was used that didn't capitalize SELECT and FROM [geech]
* Fixed quoting problems on SQLite by adding quote_string to the AbstractAdapter that can be overwritten by the concrete
adapters for a call to the dbm. [Andreas Schwarz]
* Removed RubyGems backup strategy for requiring SQLite-adapter -- if people want to use gems, they're already doing it with AR.
*1.0.0 (35)*
* Added OO-style associations methods [Florian Weber]. Examples:
Project#milestones_count => Project#milestones.size
Project#build_to_milestones => Project#milestones.build
Project#create_for_milestones => Project#milestones.create
Project#find_in_milestones => Project#milestones.find
Project#find_all_in_milestones => Project#milestones.find_all
* Added serialize as a new class method to control when text attributes should be YAMLized or not. This means that automated
serialization of hashes, arrays, and so on WILL NO LONGER HAPPEN (#10). You need to do something like this:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :settings
end
This will assume that settings is a text column and will now YAMLize any object put in that attribute. You can also specify
an optional :class_name option that'll raise an exception if a serialized object is retrieved as a descendent of a class not in
the hierarchy. Example:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :settings, :class_name => "Hash"
end
user = User.create("settings" => %w( one two three ))
User.find(user.id).settings # => raises SerializationTypeMismatch
* Added the option to connect to a different database for one model at a time. Just call establish_connection on the class
you want to have connected to another database than Base. This will automatically also connect decendents of that class
to the different database [Renald Buter].
* Added transactional protection for Base#save. Validations can now check for values knowing that it happens in a transaction and callbacks
can raise exceptions knowing that the save will be rolled back. [Suggested by Alexey Verkhovsky]
* Added column name quoting so reserved words, such as "references", can be used as column names [Ryan Platte]
* Added the possibility to chain the return of what happened inside a logged block [geech]:
This now works:
log { ... }.map { ... }
Instead of doing:
result = []
log { result = ... }
result.map { ... }
* Added "socket" option for the MySQL adapter, so you can change it to something else than "/tmp/mysql.sock" [Anna Lissa Cruz]
* Added respond_to? answers for all the attribute methods. So if Person has a name attribute retrieved from the table schema,
person.respond_to? "name" will return true.
* Added Base.benchmark which can be used to aggregate logging and benchmark, so you can measure and represent multiple statements in a single block.
Usage (hides all the SQL calls for the individual actions and calculates total runtime for them all):
Project.benchmark("Creating project") do
project = Project.create("name" => "stuff")
project.create_manager("name" => "David")
project.milestones << Milestone.find_all
end
* Added logging of invalid SQL statements [Suggested by Daniel Von Fange]
* Added alias Errors#[] for Errors#on, so you can now say person.errors["name"] to retrieve the errors for name [Andreas Schwarz]
* Added RubyGems require attempt if sqlite-ruby is not available through regular methods.
* Added compatibility with 2.x series of sqlite-ruby drivers. [Jamis Buck]
* Added type safety for association assignments, so a ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch will be raised if you attempt to
assign an object that's not of the associated class. This cures the problem with nil giving id = 4 and fixnums giving id = 1 on
mistaken association assignments. [Reported by Andreas Schwarz]
* Added the option to keep many fixtures in one single YAML document [what-a-day]
* Added the class method "inheritance_column" that can be overwritten to return the name of an alternative column than "type" for storing
the type for inheritance hierarchies. [Dave Steinberg]
* Added [] and []= as an alternative way to access attributes when the regular methods have been overwritten [Dave Steinberg]
* Added the option to observer more than one class at the time by specifying observed_class as an array
* Added auto-id propagation support for tables with arbitrary primary keys that have autogenerated sequences associated with them
on PostgreSQL. [Dave Steinberg]
* Changed that integer and floats set to "" through attributes= remain as NULL. This was especially a problem for scaffolding and postgresql. (#49)
* Changed the MySQL Adapter to rely on MySQL for its defaults for socket, host, and port [Andreas Schwarz]
* Changed ActionControllerError to decent from StandardError instead of Exception. It can now be caught by a generic rescue.
* Changed class inheritable attributes to not use eval [Caio Chassot]
* Changed Errors#add to now use "invalid" as the default message instead of true, which means full_messages work with those [Marcel Molina Jr]
* Fixed spelling on Base#add_on_boundry_breaking to Base#add_on_boundary_breaking (old naming still works) [Marcel Molina Jr.]
* Fixed that entries in the has_and_belongs_to_many join table didn't get removed when an associated object was destroyed.
* Fixed unnecessary calls to SET AUTOCOMMIT=0/1 for MySQL adapter [Andreas Schwarz]
* Fixed PostgreSQL defaults are now handled gracefully [Dave Steinberg]
* Fixed increment/decrement_counter are now atomic updates [Andreas Schwarz]
* Fixed the problems the Inflector had turning Attachment into attuchments and Cases into Casis [radsaq/Florian Gross]
* Fixed that cloned records would point attribute references on the parent object [Andreas Schwarz]
* Fixed SQL for type call on inheritance hierarchies [Caio Chassot]
* Fixed bug with typed inheritance [Florian Weber]
* Fixed a bug where has_many collection_count wouldn't use the conditions specified for that association
*0.9.5*
* Expanded the table_name guessing rules immensely [Florian Green]. Documentation:
Guesses the table name (in forced lower-case) based on the name of the class in the inheritance hierarchy descending
directly from ActiveRecord. So if the hierarchy looks like: Reply < Message < ActiveRecord, then Message is used
to guess the table name from even when called on Reply. The guessing rules are as follows:
* Class name ends in "x", "ch" or "ss": "es" is appended, so a Search class becomes a searches table.
* Class name ends in "y" preceded by a consonant or "qu": The "y" is replaced with "ies",
so a Category class becomes a categories table.
* Class name ends in "fe": The "fe" is replaced with "ves", so a Wife class becomes a wives table.
* Class name ends in "lf" or "rf": The "f" is replaced with "ves", so a Half class becomes a halves table.
* Class name ends in "person": The "person" is replaced with "people", so a Salesperson class becomes a salespeople table.
* Class name ends in "man": The "man" is replaced with "men", so a Spokesman class becomes a spokesmen table.
* Class name ends in "sis": The "i" is replaced with an "e", so a Basis class becomes a bases table.
* Class name ends in "tum" or "ium": The "um" is replaced with an "a", so a Datum class becomes a data table.
* Class name ends in "child": The "child" is replaced with "children", so a NodeChild class becomes a node_children table.
* Class name ends in an "s": No additional characters are added or removed.
* Class name doesn't end in "s": An "s" is appended, so a Comment class becomes a comments table.
* Class name with word compositions: Compositions are underscored, so CreditCard class becomes a credit_cards table.
Additionally, the class-level table_name_prefix is prepended to the table_name and the table_name_suffix is appended.
So if you have "myapp_" as a prefix, the table name guess for an Account class becomes "myapp_accounts".
You can also overwrite this class method to allow for unguessable links, such as a Mouse class with a link to a
"mice" table. Example:
class Mouse < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.table_name() "mice" end
end
This conversion is now done through an external class called Inflector residing in lib/active_record/support/inflector.rb.
* Added find_all_in_collection to has_many defined collections. Works like this:
class Firm < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :clients
end
firm.id # => 1
firm.find_all_in_clients "revenue > 1000" # SELECT * FROM clients WHERE firm_id = 1 AND revenue > 1000
[Requested by Dave Thomas]
* Fixed finders for inheritance hierarchies deeper than one level [Florian Weber]
* Added add_on_boundry_breaking to errors to accompany add_on_empty as a default validation method. It's used like this:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
protected
def validation
errors.add_on_boundry_breaking "password", 3..20
end
end
This will add an error to the tune of "is too short (min is 3 characters)" or "is too long (min is 20 characters)" if
the password is outside the boundry. The messages can be changed by passing a third and forth parameter as message strings.
* Implemented a clone method that works properly with AR. It returns a clone of the record that
hasn't been assigned an id yet and is treated as a new record.
* Allow for domain sockets in PostgreSQL by not assuming localhost when no host is specified [Scott Barron]
* Fixed that bignums are saved properly instead of attempted to be YAMLized [Andreas Schwartz]
* Fixed a bug in the GEM where the rdoc options weren't being passed according to spec [Chad Fowler]
* Fixed a bug with the exclusively_dependent option for has_many
*0.9.4*
* Correctly guesses the primary key when the class is inside a module [Dave Steinberg].
* Added [] and []= as alternatives to read_attribute and write_attribute [Dave Steinberg]
* has_and_belongs_to_many now accepts an :order key to determine in which order the collection is returned [radsaq].
* The ids passed to find and find_on_conditions are now automatically sanitized.
* Added escaping of plings in YAML content.
* Multi-parameter assigns where all the parameters are empty will now be set to nil instead of a new instance of their class.
* Proper type within an inheritance hierarchy is now ensured already at object initialization (instead of first at create)
*0.9.3*
* Fixed bug with using a different primary key name together with has_and_belongs_to_many [Investigation by Scott]
* Added :exclusively_dependent option to the has_many association macro. The doc reads:
If set to true all the associated object are deleted in one SQL statement without having their
before_destroy callback run. This should only be used on associations that depend solely on
this class and don't need to do any clean-up in before_destroy. The upside is that it's much
faster, especially if there's a counter_cache involved.
* Added :port key to connection options, so the PostgreSQL and MySQL adapters can connect to a database server
running on another port than the default.
* Converted the new natural singleton methods that prevented AR objects from being saved by PStore
(and hence be placed in a Rails session) to a module. [Florian Weber]
* Fixed the use of floats (was broken since 0.9.0+)
* Fixed PostgreSQL adapter so default values are displayed properly when used in conjunction with
Action Pack scaffolding.
* Fixed booleans support for PostgreSQL (use real true/false�on boolean fields instead of 0/1 on tinyints) [radsaq]
*0.9.2*
* Added static method for instantly updating a record
* Treat decimal and numeric as Ruby floats [Andreas Schwartz]
* Treat chars as Ruby strings (fixes problem for Action Pack form helpers too)
* Removed debugging output accidently left in (which would screw web applications)
*0.9.1*
* Added MIT license
* Added natural object-style assignment for has_and_belongs_to_many associations. Consider the following model:
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one_and_belongs_to_many :sponsors
end
class Sponsor < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one_and_belongs_to_many :sponsors
end
Earlier, you'd have to use synthetic methods for creating associations between two objects of the above class:
roskilde_festival.add_to_sponsors(carlsberg)
roskilde_festival.remove_from_sponsors(carlsberg)
nike.add_to_events(world_cup)
nike.remove_from_events(world_cup)
Now you can use regular array-styled methods:
roskilde_festival.sponsors << carlsberg
roskilde_festival.sponsors.delete(carlsberg)
nike.events << world_cup
nike.events.delete(world_cup)
* Added delete method for has_many associations. Using this will nullify an association between the has_many and the belonging
object by setting the foreign key to null. Consider this model:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
end
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post
end
You could do something like:
funny_comment.has_post? # => true
announcement.comments.delete(funny_comment)
funny_comment.has_post? # => false
*0.9.0*
* Active Record is now thread safe! (So you can use it with Cerise and WEBrick applications)
[Implementation idea by Michael Neumann, debugging assistance by Jamis Buck]
* Improved performance by roughly 400% on a basic test case of pulling 100 records and querying one attribute.
This brings the tax for using Active Record instead of "riding on the metal" (using MySQL-ruby C-driver directly) down to ~50%.
Done by doing lazy type conversions and caching column information on the class-level.
* Added callback objects and procs as options for implementing the target for callback macros.
* Added "counter_cache" option to belongs_to that automates the usage of increment_counter and decrement_counter. Consider:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
end
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post
end
Iterating over 100 posts like this:
<% for post in @posts %>
<%= post.title %> has <%= post.comments_count %> comments
<% end %>
Will generate 100 SQL count queries -- one for each call to post.comments_count. If you instead add a "comments_count" int column
to the posts table and rewrite the comments association macro with:
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post, :counter_cache => true
end
Those 100 SQL count queries will be reduced to zero. Beware that counter caching is only appropriate for objects that begin life
with the object it's specified to belong with and is destroyed like that as well. Typically objects where you would also specify
:dependent => true. If your objects switch from one belonging to another (like a post that can be move from one category to another),
you'll have to manage the counter yourself.
* Added natural object-style assignment for has_one and belongs_to associations. Consider the following model:
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :manager
end
class Manager < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :project
end
Earlier, assignments would work like following regardless of which way the assignment told the best story:
active_record.manager_id = david.id
Now you can do it either from the belonging side:
david.project = active_record
...or from the having side:
active_record.manager = david
If the assignment happens from the having side, the assigned object is automatically saved. So in the example above, the
project_id attribute on david would be set to the id of active_record, then david would be saved.
* Added natural object-style assignment for has_many associations [Florian Weber]. Consider the following model:
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :milestones
end
class Milestone < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :project
end
Earlier, assignments would work like following regardless of which way the assignment told the best story:
deadline.project_id = active_record.id
Now you can do it either from the belonging side:
deadline.project = active_record
...or from the having side:
active_record.milestones << deadline
The milestone is automatically saved with the new foreign key.
* API CHANGE: Attributes for text (or blob or similar) columns will now have unknown classes stored using YAML instead of using
to_s. (Known classes that won't be yamelized are: String, NilClass, TrueClass, FalseClass, Fixnum, Date, and Time).
Likewise, data pulled out of text-based attributes will be attempted converged using Yaml if they have the "--- " header.
This was primarily done to be enable the storage of hashes and arrays without wrapping them in aggregations, so now you can do:
user = User.find(1)
user.preferences = { "background" => "black", "display" => large }
user.save
User.find(1).preferences # => { "background" => "black", "display" => large }
Please note that this method should only be used when you don't care about representing the object in proper columns in
the database. A money object consisting of an amount and a currency is still a much better fit for a value object done through
aggregations than this new option.
* POSSIBLE CODE BREAKAGE: As a consequence of the lazy type conversions, it's a bad idea to reference the @attributes hash
directly (it always was, but now it's paramount that you don't). If you do, you won't get the type conversion. So to implement
new accessors for existing attributes, use read_attribute(attr_name) and write_attribute(attr_name, value) instead. Like this:
class Song < ActiveRecord::Base
# Uses an integer of seconds to hold the length of the song
def length=(minutes)
write_attribute("length", minutes * 60)
end
def length
read_attribute("length") / 60
end
end
The clever kid will notice that this opens a door to sidestep the automated type conversion by using @attributes directly.
This is not recommended as read/write_attribute may be granted additional responsibilities in the future, but if you think
you know what you're doing and aren't afraid of future consequences, this is an option.
* Applied a few minor bug fixes reported by Daniel Von Fange.
*0.8.4*
_Reflection_
* Added ActiveRecord::Reflection with a bunch of methods and classes for reflecting in aggregations and associations.
* Added Base.columns and Base.content_columns which returns arrays of column description (type, default, etc) objects.
* Added Base#attribute_names which returns an array of names for the attributes available on the object.
* Added Base#column_for_attribute(name) which returns the column description object for the named attribute.
_Misc_
* Added multi-parameter assignment:
# Instantiate objects for all attribute classes that needs more than one constructor parameter. This is done
# by calling new on the column type or aggregation type (through composed_of) object with these parameters.
# So having the pairs written_on(1) = "2004", written_on(2) = "6", written_on(3) = "24", will instantiate
# written_on (a date type) with Date.new("2004", "6", "24"). You can also specify a typecast character in the
# parenteses to have the parameters typecasted before they're used in the constructor. Use i for Fixnum, f for Float,
# s for String, and a for Array.
This is incredibly useful for assigning dates from HTML drop-downs of month, year, and day.
* Fixed bug with custom primary key column name and Base.find on multiple parameters.
* Fixed bug with dependent option on has_one associations if there was no associated object.
*0.8.3*
_Transactions_
* Added transactional protection for destroy (important for the new :dependent option) [Suggested by Carl Youngblood]
* Fixed so transactions are ignored on MyISAM tables for MySQL (use InnoDB to get transactions)
* Changed transactions so only exceptions will cause a rollback, not returned false.
_Mapping_
* Added support for non-integer primary keys [Aredridel/earlier work by Michael Neumann]
User.find "jdoe"
Product.find "PDKEY-INT-12"
* Added option to specify naming method for primary key column. ActiveRecord::Base.primary_key_prefix_type can either
be set to nil, :table_name, or :table_name_with_underscore. :table_name will assume that Product class has a primary key
of "productid" and :table_name_with_underscore will assume "product_id". The default nil will just give "id".
* Added an overwriteable primary_key method that'll instruct AR to the name of the
id column [Aredridele/earlier work by Guan Yang]
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.primary_key() "project_id" end
end
* Fixed that Active Records can safely associate inside and out of modules.
class MyApplication::Account < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :clients # will look for MyApplication::Client
has_many :interests, :class_name => "Business::Interest" # will look for Business::Interest
end
* Fixed that Active Records can safely live inside modules [Aredridel]
class MyApplication::Account < ActiveRecord::Base
end
_Misc_
* Added freeze call to value object assignments to ensure they remain immutable [Spotted by Gavin Sinclair]
* Changed interface for specifying observed class in observers. Was OBSERVED_CLASS constant, now is
observed_class() class method. This is more consistant with things like self.table_name(). Works like this:
class AuditObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer
def self.observed_class() Account end
def after_update(account)
AuditTrail.new(account, "UPDATED")
end
end
[Suggested by Gavin Sinclair]
* Create new Active Record objects by setting the attributes through a block. Like this:
person = Person.new do |p|
p.name = 'Freddy'
p.age = 19
end
[Suggested by Gavin Sinclair]
*0.8.2*
* Added inheritable callback queues that can ensure that certain callback methods or inline fragments are
run throughout the entire inheritance hierarchy. Regardless of whether a descendent overwrites the callback
method:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
before_destroy :destroy_author, 'puts "I'm an inline fragment"'
end
Learn more in link:classes/ActiveRecord/Callbacks.html
* Added :dependent option to has_many and has_one, which will automatically destroy associated objects when
the holder is destroyed:
class Album < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :tracks, :dependent => true
end
All the associated tracks are destroyed when the album is.
* Added Base.create as a factory that'll create, save, and return a new object in one step.
* Automatically convert strings in config hashes to symbols for the _connection methods. This allows you
to pass the argument hashes directly from yaml. (Luke)
* Fixed the install.rb to include simple.rb [Spotted by Kevin Bullock]
* Modified block syntax to better follow our code standards outlined in
http://www.rubyonrails.org/CodingStandards
*0.8.1*
* Added object-level transactions [Thanks to Austin Ziegler for Transaction::Simple]
* Changed adapter-specific connection methods to use centralized ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection,
which is parametized through a config hash with symbol keys instead of a regular parameter list.
This will allow for database connections to be opened in a more generic fashion. (Luke)
NOTE: This requires all *_connections to be updated! Read more in:
http://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000081
* Fixed SQLite adapter so objects fetched from has_and_belongs_to_many have proper attributes
(t.name is now name). [Spotted by Garrett Rooney]
* Fixed SQLite adapter so dates are returned as Date objects, not Time objects [Spotted by Gavin Sinclair]
* Fixed requirement of date class, so date conversions are succesful regardless of whether you
manually require date or not.
*0.8.0*
* Added transactions
* Changed Base.find to also accept either a list (1, 5, 6) or an array of ids ([5, 7])
as parameter and then return an array of objects instead of just an object
* Fixed method has_collection? for has_and_belongs_to_many macro to behave as a
collection, not an association
* Fixed SQLite adapter so empty or nil values in columns of datetime, date, or time type
aren't treated as current time [Spotted by Gavin Sinclair]
*0.7.6*
* Fixed the install.rb to create the lib/active_record/support directory [Spotted by Gavin Sinclair]
* Fixed that has_association? would always return true [Spotted by Daniel Von Fange]
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