rails204changes.txt

What's new in Rails 2.0.4
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Action Mailer

* Less verbose mail logging: just recipients for :info log level; the whole email for :debug only.  #8000 [iaddict, Tarmo Tänav]

* Updated TMail to version 1.2.1 [raasdnil]

* Fixed that you don't have to call super in ActionMailer::TestCase#setup #10406 [jamesgolick]


Action Pack

* Avoid remote_ip spoofing.  [Brian Candler]

* Correct inconsistencies in RequestForgeryProtection docs.  #11032 [mislav]

* Make assert_routing aware of the HTTP method used.  #8039 [mpalmer]
   e.g. assert_routing({ :method => 'put', :path => '/product/321' }, { :controller => "product", :action => "update", :id => "321" })

* Remove ERB trim variables from trace template in case ActionView::Base.erb_trim_mode is changed in the application.  #10098 [tpope, kampers]

* Fix typo in form_helper documentation.  #10650 [xaviershay, kampers]

* Fix bug with setting Request#format= after the getter has cached the value.  #10889 [cch1]

* Add label_tag helper for generating elements. #10802 [DefV]

* TestSession supports indifferent access.  #7372 [tamc, Arsen7, mhackett, julik, jean.helou]

* UrlWriter respects relative_url_root.  #10748 [Cheah Chu Yeow]

* Support render :text => nil.  #6684 [tjennings, PotatoSalad, Cheah Chu Yeow]

* assert_response failures include the exception message.  #10688 [Seth Rasmussen]

* Fixed rendering of partials with layout when done from site layout #9209 [antramm]

* Fix atom_feed_helper to comply with the atom spec.  Closes #10672 [xaviershay]

  * The tags created do not contain a date (http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/InvalidTAG.html)
  * IDs are not guaranteed unique
  * A default self link was not provided, contrary to the documentation
  * NOTE:  This changes tags for existing atom entries, but at least they validate now.

* Correct indentation in tests.  Closes #10671 [l.guidi]

* Fix that auto_link looks for ='s in url paths (Amazon urls have them).  Closes #10640 [bgreenlee]

* Ensure that test case setup is run even if overridden.  #10382 [Josh Peek]

* Fix HTML Sanitizer to allow trailing spaces in CSS style attributes.  Closes #10566 [wesley.moxam]

* Add :default option to time_zone_select.  #10590 [Matt Aimonetti]


Active Record

* Migrations: create_table supports primary_key_prefix_type.  #10314 [student, thechrisoshow]

* Ensure that ActiveRecord::Calculations disambiguates field names with the table name.  #11027 [cavalle]

* Ensure that modifying has_and_belongs_to_many actions clear the query cache.  Closes #10840 [john.andrews]

* Fix issue where Table#references doesn't pass a :null option to a *_type attribute for polymorphic associations.  Closes #10753 [railsjitsu]

* update_all ignores scoped :order and :limit, so post.comments.update_all doesn't try to include the comment order in the update statement.  #10686 [Brendan Ribera]

* Added by parameter to increment, decrement, and their bang varieties so you can do player1.increment!(:points, 5) #10542 [Sam]

* Optimize ActiveRecord::Base#exists? to use #select_all instead of #find.  Closes #10605 [jamesh, fcheung, protocool]

* Don't unnecessarily load has_many associations in after_update callbacks.  Closes #6822 [stopdropandrew, canadaduane]

* Eager belongs_to :include infers the foreign key from the association name rather than the class name.  #10517 [Jonathan Viney]

* SQLite: fix rename_ and remove_column for columns with unique indexes.  #10576 [Brandon Keepers]

* Ruby 1.9 compatibility.  [Jeremy Kemper]


Active Resource

* Fix small documentation typo.  Closes #10670 [l.guidi]

* find_or_create_resource_for handles module nesting.  #10646 [xavier]

* Allow setting ActiveResource::Base#format before #site.  [rick]

* Support agnostic formats when calling custom methods.  Closes #10635 [joerichsen]

* Document custom methods.  #10589 [Cheah Chu Yeow]

* Ruby 1.9 compatibility.  [Jeremy Kemper]


Active Support

* Fixed the rexml vulnerability disclosed at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ [koz]

* Remove :nodoc: entries around the ActiveSupport test/unit assertions.  #10946 [dancroak, jamesh]

* Fixed String#titleize to work for strings with 's too #10571 [trek]

* Changed the implementation of Enumerable#group_by to use a double array approach instead of a hash such that the insert order is honored [DHH/Marcel]

* remove multiple enumerations from ActiveSupport::JSON#convert_json_to_yaml when dealing with date/time values.  [rick]

* Hash#symbolize_keys skips keys that can't be symbolized.  #10500 [Brad Greenlee]

* Ruby 1.9 compatibility.  #1689, #10466, #10468, #10554 [Cheah Chu Yeow, Pratik Naik, Jeremy Kemper, Dirkjan Bussink]

* TimeZone#to_s uses UTC rather than GMT.  #1689 [Cheah Chu Yeow]

* Refactor of Hash#symbolize_keys! to use Hash#replace.  Closes #10420 [ReinH]

* Fix HashWithIndifferentAccess#to_options! so it doesn't clear the options hash.  Closes #10419 [ReinH]


Rail Ties

* Resurrect WordNet synonym lookups.  #10710 [tom./, matt]

* Added that rails:update is run when you do rails:freeze:edge to ensure you also get the latest JS and config files #10565 [jeff]

* SQLite: db:drop:all doesn't fail silently if the database is already open.  #10577 [Cheah Chu Yeow, mrichman]

* Ruby 1.9 compatibility.  #1689, #10546 [Cheah Chu Yeow, frederico]