From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-08-02T05:39:01+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Rails 0.5.7, Active Record 0.9.2, Action Pack 0.7.8

I gather that most people are now familar with the RoR suite, so I'm 
skipping the formal introductions and will just bring you the meat.

Get it all from http://www.rubyonrails.org, talk it up on #rubyonrails 
(FreeNet).


Rails 0.5.7: WEBrick, session, debug fixes
==========================================

Lots of minor fixes, like a WEBrick controller that now accepts GET 
parameters, along with the new AP and AR releases. If you�re already 
running 0.5.6, then don�t bother with a complete upgrade. Just get the 
new AR and AP and cherry pick the new webrick_server.rb (goes into 
vendor/railties/webrick_server.rb).

* Fixed bug in the WEBrick dispatcher that prevented it from getting 
parameters from the URL
   (through GET requests or otherwise)

* Added lib in root as a place to store app specific libraries

* Added lib and vendor to load_path, so anything store within can be 
loaded directly.
   Hence lib/redcloth.rb can be loaded with require "redcloth"

* Upgraded to Action Pack 0.7.8 (lots of fixes)

* Upgraded to Active Record 0.9.2 (minor upgrade)



Action Pack 0.7.8: Around filter, session fix, more fixes
=========================================================
A few new features, such as a new around filter for doing before and 
after processing from a single object, and a bunch of fixes. Most 
importantly is the session fix that ensures you can now store any 
object even if it doesn�t exist in the standard library. Also added 
reset_session for clearing out the session. And many more minor fixes 
and tweaks: CHANGELOG

* Fixed session bug where you couldn't store any objects that didn't 
exist in the standard library
   (such as Active Record objects).

* Added reset_session method for Action Controller objects to clear out 
all objects in the session.

* Fixed that exceptions raised during filters are now also caught by 
the default rescues

* Added new around_filter for doing before and after filtering with a 
single object [Florian Weber]:

     class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
       around_filter BenchmarkingFilter.new

       # Before this action is performed, 
BenchmarkingFilter#before(controller) is executed
       def index
       end
       # After this action has been performed, 
BenchmarkingFilter#after(controller) is executed
     end

     class BenchmarkingFilter
       def initialize
         @runtime
       end

       def before
         start_timer
       end

       def after
         stop_timer
         report_result
       end
     end

* Added the options for specifying a different name and id for the form 
helper methods than what is guessed [Florian Weber]:

     text_field "post", "title"
       ...just gives: <input id="post_title" name="post[title]" 
size="30" type="text" value="" />

     text_field "post", "title", "id" => "title_for_post", "name" => 
"first_post_title"
       ...can now give: <input id="title_for_post" 
name="first_post_title" size="30" type="text" value="" />

* Added DebugHelper with a single "debug" method for doing pretty dumps 
of objects in the view
   (now used in the default rescues to better present the contents of 
session and template variables)

* Added note to log about the templates rendered within layouts (before 
just the layout was shown)

* Fixed redirects on https setups [Andreas]

* Fixed scaffolding problem on the edit action when using :suffix => 
true [Scott]

* Fixed scaffolding problem where implementing list.rhtml wouldn't work 
for the index action

* URLs generated now uses &amp; instead of just & so pages using it can 
validate with W3C [Spotted by Andreas]



Active Record 0.9.2: Static update, type recognition, debug fix
===============================================================

This is another minor update that brings a static update method for 
easier updating records you know the id for and don�t care about 
validation on. Also treats decimal and numeric as Ruby floats, and 
chars as Ruby strings. Also removed that forgotted �asd!!� debug 
statement left in last release.

* 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)

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