CHANGELOG

Path: vendor/rails/activesupport/CHANGELOG
Last Update: Wed Aug 16 01:09:19 UTC 2006

*1.3.1* (April 6th, 2005)

  • Clean paths inside of exception messages and traces. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add Pathname.clean_within for cleaning all the paths inside of a string. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • provide an empty Dependencies::LoadingModule.load which prints deprecation warnings. Lets 1.0 applications function with .13-style environment.rb.

*1.3.0* (March 27th, 2005)

  • When possible, avoid incorrectly obtaining constants from parent modules. Fixes 4221. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add more tests for dependencies; refactor existing cases. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Move Module#parent and Module#as_load_path into core_ext. Add Module#parent. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add CachingTools::HashCaching to simplify the creation of nested, autofilling hashes. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Remove a hack intended to avoid unloading the same class twice, but which would not work anyways. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Update Object.subclasses_of to locate nested classes. This affects Object.remove_subclasses_of in that nested classes will now be unloaded. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Update Object.remove_subclasses_of to use Class.remove_class, reducing duplication. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added Fixnum#seconds for consistency, so you can say 5.minutes + 30.seconds instead of 5.minutes + 30 4389 [François Beausoleil]
  • Added option to String#camelize to generate lower-cased camel case by passing in :lower, like "super_man".camelize(:lower) # => "superMan" [DHH]
  • Added Hash#diff to show the difference between two hashes [Chris McGrath]
  • Added Time#advance to do precise time time calculations for cases where a month being approximated to 30 days won’t do 1860 [Rick Olson]
  • Enhance Inflector.underscore to convert ’-’ into ‘_’ (as the inverse of Inflector.dasherize) [Jamis Buck]
  • Switched to_xml to use the xml schema format for datetimes. This allows the encoding of time zones and should improve operability. [Koz]
  • Added a note to the documentation for the Date related Numeric extensions to indicate that they’re

approximations and shouldn’t be used for critical calculations. [Koz]

  • Added Hash#to_xml and Array#to_xml that makes it much easier to produce XML from basic structures [DHH]. Examples:
      { :name => "David", :street_name => "Paulina", :age => 26, :moved_on => Date.new(2005, 11, 15) }.to_xml
    

    …returns:

        <person>
          <street-name>Paulina</street-name>
          <name>David</name>
          <age type="integer">26</age>
          <moved-on type="date">2005-11-15</moved-on>
        </person>
    
  • Moved Jim Weirich’s wonderful Builder from Action Pack to Active Support (it’s simply too useful to be stuck in AP) [DHH]
  • Fixed that Array#to_sentence will return "" on an empty array instead of ", and" 3842, 4031 [rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com]
  • Add Enumerable#group_by for grouping collections based on the result of some block. Useful, for example, for grouping records by date.

    ex.

       latest_transcripts.group_by(&:day).each do |day, transcripts|
         p "#{day} -> #{transcripts.map(&:class) * ', '}"
       end
       "2006-03-01 -> Transcript"
       "2006-02-28 -> Transcript"
       "2006-02-27 -> Transcript, Transcript"
       "2006-02-26 -> Transcript, Transcript"
    

    Add Array#in_groups_of, for iterating over an array in groups of a certain size.

    ex.

       %w(1 2 3 4 5 6 7).in_groups_of(3) {|g| p g}
       ["1", "2", "3"]
       ["4", "5", "6"]
       ["7", nil, nil]
    

    [Marcel Molina Jr., Sam Stephenson]

  • Added Kernel#daemonize to turn the current process into a daemon that can be killed with a TERM signal [DHH]
  • Add ‘around’ methods to Logger, to make it easy to log before and after messages for a given block as requested in 3809. [Michael Koziarski] Example:

    logger.around_info("Start rendering component (#{options.inspect}): ",

                       "\n\nEnd of component rendering") { yield }
    
  • Added Time#beginning_of_quarter 3607 [cohen.jeff@gmail.com]
  • Fix Object.subclasses_of to only return currently defined objects [Jonathan Viney <jonathan@bluewire.net.nz>]
  • Fix constantize to properly handle names beginning with ’::’. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Make String#last return the string instead of nil when it is shorter than the limit [Scott Barron].
  • Added delegation support to Module that allows multiple delegations at once (unlike Forwardable in the stdlib) [DHH]. Example:
      class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
        has_one :subscription
        delegate :free?, :paying?, :to => :subscription
        delegate :overdue?, :to => "subscription.last_payment"
      end
    
      account.free?    # => account.subscription.free?
      account.overdue? # => account.subscription.last_payment.overdue?
    
  • Fix Reloadable to handle the case where a class that has been ‘removed’ has not yet been garbage collected. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Don‘t allow Reloadable to be included into Modules.
  • Remove LoadingModule. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add documentation for Reloadable::Subclasses. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add Reloadable::Subclasses which handles the common case where a base class should not be reloaded, but its subclasses should be. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Further improvements to reloading code [Nicholas Seckar, Trevor Squires]
    • All classes/modules which include Reloadable can define reloadable? for fine grained control of reloading
    • Class.remove_class uses Module#parent to access the parent module
    • Class.remove_class expanded to handle multiple classes in a single call
    • LoadingModule.clear! has been removed as it is no longer required
    • Module#remove_classes_including has been removed in favor of Reloadable.reloadable_classes
  • Added reusable reloading support through the inclusion of the Relodable module that all subclasses of ActiveRecord::Base, ActiveRecord::Observer, ActiveController::Base, and ActionMailer::Base automatically gets. This means that these classes will be reloaded by the dispatcher when Dependencies.mechanism = :load. You can make your own models reloadable easily:
      class Setting
        include Reloadable
      end
    

    Reloading a class is done by removing its constant which will cause it to be loaded again on the next reference. [DHH]

  • Added auto-loading support for classes in modules, so Conductor::Migration will look for conductor/migration.rb and Conductor::Database::Settings will look for conductor/database/settings.rb [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Add Object#instance_exec, like instance_eval but passes its arguments to the block. (Active Support will not override the Ruby 1.9 implementation of this method.) [Sam Stephenson]
  • Add Proc#bind(object) for changing a proc or block’s self by returning a Method bound to the given object. Based on why the lucky stiff’s "cloaker" method. [Sam Stephenson]
  • Fix merge and dup for hashes with indifferent access 3404 [kenneth.miller@bitfield.net]
  • Fix the requires in option_merger_test to unbreak AS tests. [Sam Stephenson]
  • Make HashWithIndifferentAccess#update behave like Hash#update by returning the hash. 3419, 3425 [asnem@student.ethz.ch, JanPrill@blauton.de, Marcel Molina Jr.]
  • Add ActiveSupport::JSON and Object#to_json for converting Ruby objects to JSON strings. [Sam Stephenson]
  • Add Object#with_options for DRYing up multiple calls to methods having shared options. [Sam Stephenson] Example:

    ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|

      # Account routes
      map.with_options(:controller => 'account') do |account|
        account.home   '',       :action => 'dashboard'
        account.signup 'signup', :action => 'new'
        account.logout 'logout', :action => 'logout'
      end
    

    end

  • Introduce Dependencies.warnings_on_first_load setting. If true, enables warnings on first load of a require_dependency. Otherwise, loads without warnings. Disabled (set to false) by default. [Jeremy Kemper]
  • Active Support is warnings-safe. 1792 [Eric Hodel]
  • Introduce enable_warnings counterpart to silence_warnings. Turn warnings on when loading a file for the first time if Dependencies.mechanism == :load. Common mistakes such as redefined methods will print warnings to stderr. [Jeremy Kemper]
  • Add Symbol#to_proc, which allows for, e.g. [:foo, :bar].map(&:to_s). [Marcel Molina Jr.]
  • Added the following methods [Marcel Molina Jr., Sam Stephenson]:
    • Object#copy_instance_variables_from(object) to copy instance variables from one object to another
    • Object#extended_by to get an instance’s included/extended modules
    • Object#extend_with_included_modules_from(object) to extend an instance with the modules from another instance

*1.2.5* (December 13th, 2005)

  • Become part of Rails 1.0
  • Rename Version constant to VERSION. 2802 [Marcel Molina Jr.]

*1.2.3* (November 7th, 2005)

  • Change Inflector#constantize to use eval instead of const_get. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fix const_missing handler to ignore the trailing ’.rb’ on files when comparing paths. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Define kernel.rb methods in "class Object" instead of "module Kernel" to work around a Windows peculiarity [Sam Stephenson]
  • Fix broken tests caused by incomplete loading of active support. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fix status pluralization bug so status_codes doesn’t get pluralized as statuses_code. 2758 [keithm@infused.org]
  • Added Kernel#silence_stderr to silence stderr for the duration of the given block [Sam Stephenson]
  • Changed Kernel#` to print a message to stderr (like Unix) instead of raising Errno::ENOENT on Win32 [Sam Stephenson]
  • Changed 0.blank? to false rather than true since it violates everyone’s expectation of blankness. 2518, 2705 [rails@jeffcole.net]
  • When loading classes using const_missing, raise a NameError if and only if the file we tried to load was not present. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added petabytes and exebytes to numeric extensions 2397 [timct@mac.com]
  • Added Time#end_of_month to accompany Time#beginning_of_month 2514 [Jens-Christian Fischer]

*1.2.2* (October 26th, 2005)

  • Set Logger.silencer = false to disable Logger#silence. Useful for debugging fixtures.
  • Add title case method to String to do, e.g., ‘action_web_service’.titlecase # => ‘Action Web Service’. [Marcel Molina Jr.]

*1.2.1* (October 19th, 2005)

  • Classify generated routing code as framework code to avoid appearing in application traces. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Show all framework frames in the framework trace. [Nicholas Seckar]

*1.2.0* (October 16th, 2005)

  • Update Exception extension to show the first few framework frames in an application trace. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added Exception extension to provide support for clean backtraces. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Updated whiny nil to be more concise and useful. [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added Enumerable#first_match [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fixed that Time#change should also reset usec when also resetting minutes 2459 [ikeda@dream.big.or.jp]
  • Fix Logger compatibility for distributions that don’t keep Ruby and its standard library in sync.
  • Replace ’%e’ from long and short time formats as Windows does not support it. 2344. [Tom Ward <tom@popdog.net>]
  • Added to_s(:db) to Range, so you can get "BETWEEN ‘2005-12-10’ AND ‘2005-12-12’" from Date.new(2005, 12, 10)..Date.new(2005, 12, 12) (and likewise with Times)
  • Moved require_library_or_gem into Kernel. 1992 [Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>]
  • Add :rfc822 as an option for Time#to_s (to get rfc822-formatted times)
  • Chain the const_missing hook to any previously existing hook so rails can play nicely with rake
  • Clean logger is compatible with both 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 Logger. 2263 [Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>]
  • Added native, faster implementations of .blank? for the core types 2286 [skae]
  • Fixed clean logger to work with Ruby 1.8.3 Logger class 2245
  • Fixed memory leak with Active Record classes when Dependencies.mechanism = :load 1704 [c.r.mcgrath@gmail.com]
  • Fixed Inflector.underscore for use with acronyms, so HTML becomes html instead of htm_l 2173 [k@v2studio.com]
  • Fixed dependencies related infinite recursion bug when a controller file does not contain a controller class. Closes 1760. [rcolli2@tampabay.rr.com]
  • Fixed inflections for status, quiz, move 2056 [deirdre@deirdre.net]
  • Added Hash#reverse_merge, Hash#reverse_merge!, and Hash#reverse_update to ease the use of default options
  • Added Array#to_sentence that’ll turn [‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’] into "one, two, and three" 2157 [m.stienstra@fngtps.com]
  • Added Kernel#silence_warnings to turn off warnings temporarily for the passed block
  • Added String#starts_with? and String#ends_with? 2118 [thijs@vandervossen.net]
  • Added easy extendability to the inflector through Inflector.inflections (using the Inflector::Inflections singleton class). Examples:
      Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
        inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1\2en'
        inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
    
        inflect.irregular 'octopus', 'octopi'
    
        inflect.uncountable "equipment"
      end
    
  • Added String#at, String#from, String#to, String#first, String#last in ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Access to ease access to individual characters and substrings in a string serving basically as human names for range access.
  • Make Time#last_month work when invoked on the 31st of a month.
  • Add Time.days_in_month, and make Time#next_month work when invoked on the 31st of a month
  • Fixed that Time#midnight would have a non-zero usec on some platforms 1836
  • Fixed inflections of "index/indices" 1766 [damn_pepe@gmail.com]
  • Added stripping of _id to String#humanize, so "employee_id" becomes "Employee" 1574 [Justin French]
  • Factor Fixnum and Bignum extensions into Integer extensions [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Hooked ordinalize into Fixnum and Bignum classes. [Nicholas Seckar, danp]
  • Added Fixnum#ordinalize to turn 1.ordinalize to "1st", 3.ordinalize to "3rd", and 10.ordinalize to "10th" and so on 1724 [paul@cnt.org]

*1.1.1* (11 July, 2005)

  • Added more efficient implementation of the development mode reset of classes 1638 [Chris McGrath]

*1.1.0* (6 July, 2005)

  • Fixed conflict with Glue gem 1606 [Rick Olson]
  • Added new rules to the Inflector to deal with more unusual plurals mouse/louse => mice/lice, information => information, ox => oxen, virus => viri, archive => archives 1571, 1583, 1490, 1599, 1608 [foamdino@gmail.com/others]
  • Fixed memory leak with Object#remove_subclasses_of, which inflicted a Rails application running in development mode with a ~20KB leak per request 1289 [c.r.mcgrath@gmail.com]
  • Made 1.year == 365.25.days to account for leap years. This allows you to do User.find(:all, :conditions => [‘birthday > ?’, 50.years.ago]) without losing a lot of days. 1488 [tuxie@dekadance.se]
  • Added an exception if calling id on nil to WhinyNil 584 [kevin-temp@writesoon.com]
  • Added Fix/Bignum#multiple_of? which returns true on 14.multiple_of?(7) and false on 16.multiple_of?(7) 1464 [Thomas Fuchs]
  • Added even? and odd? to work with Bignums in addition to Fixnums 1464 [Thomas Fuchs]
  • Fixed Time#at_beginning_of_week returned the next Monday instead of the previous one when called on a Sunday 1403 [jean.helou@gmail.com]
  • Increased the speed of indifferent hash access by using Hash#default. 1436 [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added that " " is now also blank? (using strip if available)
  • Fixed Dependencies so all modules are able to load missing constants 1173 [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fixed the Inflector to underscore strings containing numbers, so Area51Controller becomes area51_controller 1176 [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fixed that HashWithIndifferentAccess stringified all keys including symbols, ints, objects, and arrays 1162 [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Fixed Time#last_year to go back in time, not forward 1278 [fabien@odilat.com]
  • Fixed the pluralization of analysis to analyses 1295 [seattle@rootimage.msu.edu]
  • Fixed that Time.local(2005,12).months_since(1) would raise "ArgumentError: argument out of range" 1311 [jhahn@niveon.com]
  • Added silencing to the default Logger class

*1.0.4* (19th April, 2005)

  • 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]
  • Fixed inflection of perspectives and similar words 1045 [thijs@vandervossen.net]
  • Added Fixnum#even? and Fixnum#odd?
  • Fixed problem with classes being required twice. Object#const_missing now uses require_dependency to load files. It used to use require_or_load which would cause models to be loaded twice, which was not good for validations and other class methods 971 [Nicholas Seckar]

*1.0.3* (27th March, 2005)

  • Fixed Inflector.pluralize to handle capitalized words 932 [Jeremy Kemper]
  • Added Object#suppress which allows you to make a saner choice around with exceptions to swallow 980. Example:
      suppress(ZeroDivisionError) { 1/0 }
    

    …instead of:

      1/0 rescue nil # BAD, EVIL, DIRTY.
    

*1.0.2* (22th March, 2005)

  • Added Kernel#returning — a Ruby-ized realization of the K combinator, courtesy of Mikael Brockman.
      def foo
        returning values = [] do
          values << 'bar'
          values << 'baz'
        end
      end
    
      foo # => ['bar', 'baz']
    

*1.0.1* (7th March, 2005)

  • Fixed Hash#indifferent_access to also deal with include? and fetch and nested hashes 726 [Nicholas Seckar]
  • Added Object#blank? — see redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/objectBlank.html 783 [_why the lucky stiff]
  • Added inflection rules for "sh" words, like "wish" and "fish" 755 [phillip@pjbsoftware.com]
  • Fixed an exception when using Ajax based requests from Safari because Safari appends a \000 to the post body. Symbols can’t have \000 in them so indifferent access would throw an exception in the constructor. Indifferent hashes now use strings internally instead. 746 [Tobias Luetke]
  • Added String#to_time and String#to_date for wrapping ParseDate

*1.0.0* (24th February, 2005)

  • Added TimeZone as the first of a number of value objects that among others Active Record can use rich value objects using composed_of 688 [Jamis Buck]
  • Added Date::Conversions for getting dates in different convenient string representations and other objects
  • Added Time::Conversions for getting times in different convenient string representations and other objects
  • Added Time::Calculations to ask for things like Time.now.tomorrow, Time.now.yesterday, Time.now.months_ago(4) 580 [DP|Flurin]. Examples:
      "Later today"         => now.in(3.hours),
      "Tomorrow morning"    => now.tomorrow.change(:hour => 9),
      "Tomorrow afternoon"  => now.tomorrow.change(:hour => 14),
      "In a couple of days" => now.tomorrow.tomorrow.change(:hour => 9),
      "Next monday"         => now.next_week.change(:hour => 9),
      "In a month"          => now.next_month.change(:hour => 9),
      "In 6 months"         => now.months_since(6).change(:hour => 9),
      "In a year"           => now.in(1.year).change(:hour => 9)
    
  • Upgraded to breakpoint 92 which fixes:
      * overload IRB.parse_opts(), fixes #443
        => breakpoints in tests work even when running them via rake
      * untaint handlers, might fix an issue discussed on the Rails ML
      * added verbose mode to breakpoint_client
      * less noise caused by breakpoint_client by default
      * ignored TerminateLineInput exception in signal handler
        => quiet exit on Ctrl-C
    
  • Fixed Inflector for words like "news" and "series" that are the same in plural and singular 603 [echion], 615 [marcenuc]
  • Added Hash#stringify_keys and Hash#stringify_keys!
  • Added IndifferentAccess as a way to wrap a hash by a symbol-based store that also can be accessed by string keys
  • Added Inflector.constantize to turn "Admin::User" into a reference for the constant Admin::User
  • Added that Inflector.camelize and Inflector.underscore can deal with modules like turning "Admin::User" into "admin/user" and back
  • Added Inflector.humanize to turn attribute names like employee_salary into "Employee salary". Used by automated error reporting in AR.
  • Added availability of class inheritable attributes to the masses 477 [Jeremy Kemper]
      class Foo
        class_inheritable_reader :read_me
        class_inheritable_writer :write_me
        class_inheritable_accessor :read_and_write_me
        class_inheritable_array :read_and_concat_me
        class_inheritable_hash :read_and_update_me
      end
    
      # Bar gets a clone of (not a reference to) Foo's attributes.
      class Bar < Foo
      end
    
      Bar.read_and_write_me == Foo.read_and_write_me
      Bar.read_and_write_me = 'bar'
      Bar.read_and_write_me != Foo.read_and_write_me
    
  • Added Inflections as an extension on String, so Inflector.pluralize(Inflector.classify(name)) becomes name.classify.pluralize 476 [Jeremy Kemper]
  • Added Byte operations to Numeric, so 5.5.megabytes + 200.kilobytes 461 [Marcel Molina]
  • Fixed that Dependencies.reload can’t load the same file twice 420 [Kent Sibilev]
  • Added Fixnum#ago/until, Fixnum#since/from_now 450 [Jeremy Kemper]
  • Added that Inflector now accepts Symbols and Classes by calling .to_s on the word supplied
  • Added time unit extensions to Fixnum that’ll return the period in seconds, like 2.days + 4.hours.

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