Over the years I have seen some confusion about what is exactly docrails and how it relates to the documentation of Ruby on Rails. This post explains everything you want to know about this aspect of the project. What is docrails? docrails is a branch of Ruby on Rails with public write access. Anyone can push doc fixes directly. If you see a typo
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Rails 3.2.2 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here. Some highlights from this release are: Log files are always flushed Faili
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Rails 3.1.4 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here. Some highlights from this release are: thrrubyrhino is added to the Gemfi
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Rails 3.0.12 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here. Some highlights from this release are: require and load will return the
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What is PATCH? The HTTP method PUT means resource creation or replacement at some given URL. Think files, for example. If you upload a file to S3 at some URL, you want either to create the file at that URL or replace an existing file if there's one. That is PUT. Now let's say a web application has an Invoice model with a paid flag that indicates
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Rails 3.2.1 is out, with some fixes and doc improvements. Please check the CHANGELOGs gist for details.
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So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked, tested, and ready to roll! I’ve been running on 3-2-stable for a few months working on Basecamp Next and
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.2.0.rc2 has been released. Update your Gemfile to depend on sass-rails ~> 3.2.3 IMPORTANT Support for Rails 2.3-style plugins (vendor/plugins!) will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb CHANGES since RC1 Acti
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The forthcoming 3.2.x release series will be the last branch of Rails that supports Ruby 1.8.7. There’s a new 3-2-stable branch in git to track the changes we need until 3.2.0 final is release and for managing point releases after that. So for now you should stop floating on rails/master if your application is not compatible with Ruby 1.9.3. We
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Once you’ve boarded the Rails train, you just know that every stop along the way is going to be a good time. This release candidate is no different and we’ve packed it with loving goodies without making upgrading a hassle. Faster dev mode & routing The most noticeable new feature is that development mode got a ton and a half faster. Inspir
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There are some new features related to EXPLAIN in the forthcoming Ruby on Rails 3.2 we'd like to share: Running EXPLAIN manually Automatic EXPLAIN for slow queries Silencing automatic EXPLAIN As of this writing they are available for the adapters sqlite3, mysql2, and postgresql. Running EXPLAIN Manually You can now run EXPLAIN on the SQL gener
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Rails 3.1.3 has been released. This release mainly contains fixes for regressions that popped up in 3.1.2. Changes Action Pack: Downgrade sprockets to ~> 2.0.3. Using 2.1.0 caused regressions. Fix using translate helper with a html translation which uses the :count option for pluralization. Jon Leighton Active Record: Perf fix: If we're del
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Rails 3.1.2 has been released. This is a patch-level release containing bug fixes and an important security fix. Possible XSS vulnerability in the translate helper method in Ruby on Rails There is a vulnerability in the translate helper method which may allow an attacker to insert arbitrary code into a page. Versions Affected: 3.0.0 and later, 2
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Rails 3.0.11 has been released. This is a patch-level release containing bug fixes and an important security fix. Possible XSS vulnerability in the translate helper method in Ruby on Rails There is a vulnerability in the translate helper method which may allow an attacker to insert arbitrary code into a page. Versions Affected: 3.0.0 and later,
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.1 has been released. This release requires at least sass-rails 3.1.4 CHANGES ActionMailer No changes ActionPack stylesheetlinktag('/stylesheets/application') and similar helpers doesn't throw Sprockets::FileOutsidePaths exception anymore [Santiago Pastorino] Ensure defaultassethost_protocol is respected, closes #2980.
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.1.rc3 has been released. Please give it a try, it's our chance to fix regressions you might find and make a beautiful 3.1.1 stable release. If there are no regressions I will be releasing 3.1.1 final next October 7th. If you find any regression please contact me ASAP by email, twitter or github. CHANGES ActionMailer No ch
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.1.rc2 has been released. Please give it a try, it's our chance to fix regressions you might find and make a beautiful 3.1.1 stable release. If there are no regressions I will be releasing 3.1.1 final next October 3rd. If you find any regression please contact me ASAP by email, twitter or github. CHANGES ActionMailer No ch
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.1.rc1 has been released. Please give it a try, it's our chance to fix regressions you might find and make a beautiful 3.1.1 stable release. If there are no regressions I will be releasing 3.1.1 final next September 16th during GoGaRuCo. CHANGES ActionMailer No changes ActionPack Allow asset tag helper methods to accep
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Hi everybody! It's been 3 Months since RailsConf, so I think it's time we released Rails 3.1.0. So, here it is! I've released Rails 3.1.0! CHANGES For a much more attractive and easy to read list of changes, please check out the awesome Rails 3.1.0 Release Notes on the Rails Guides site. For a less attractive list of changes, please continue t
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The Ruby on Rails API is switching to SDoc starting with 3.1. SDoc is a RDoc format created by Володя Колесников (@voloko) that has been powering railsapi.com for a long time. Among other things, SDoc provides a search box with fuzzy match completion, tree browsing, keyboard navigation, and a really nice template. You can already
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.0.rc8 has been released (we've an issue with rc7). This is the final release candidate. Please give it a try, it's our last chance to fix regressions and severe issues. We will be releasing final 3.1.0 next August 30th. CHANGES Check the CHANGELOG file of each framework to see what we've changed. You can find an exhaustiv
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.1.0.rc6 has been released. This release contains critical security fixes. CHANGES You can find an exhaustive list of changes on github. Along with the closed issues marked for v3.1.0. You can also see issues we haven't closed. A comprehensive CHANGELOG will be announced when 3.1.0 final is released. Barring any show sto
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.0.10 has been released. This release contains critical security fixes. CHANGES You can find an exhaustive list of changes on github. Here are some notable excerpts: 4 Security Fixes Filter Skipping bugs SQL Injection issues Parse error in strip_tags UTF-8 escaping vulnerability Please follow the links to see specific
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Hi everyone, Rails 2.3.14 has been released. This release contains critical security fixes. CHANGES You can find an exhaustive list of changes on github. Here are some notable excerpts: 4 Security Fixes Response Splitting SQL Injection issues Parse error in strip_tags UTF-8 escaping vulnerability Please follow the links to see specific in
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Hi everyone, Rails 3.0.10.rc1 has been released. As usual, please try out this release candidate and report any issues to the ruby on rails core mailing list. If no issues are found, we'll release 3.0.10 on August 8th (around 5pm PDT). If you do find issues, please send them to the rails core mailing list. If the release candidate is found to n
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