This week in Rails: Relation#or, file fixtures, kwargs and more!
Posted by gregmolnar, January 31, 2015 @ 2:13 am in News
It is that time of the week again!
This is Greg, bringing you this week’s interesting commits and pull requests from Rails.
Featured
This week’s Rails contributors
Let’s start with a big thank you for all the people who helped this week to make Rails better!
New Stuff
Added #or to ActiveRecord::Relation
A long waited feature is added to Active Record and from now on you can combine two Active Record relations with the or
operator.
ActiveSupport::Testing::FileFixtures
With this addition to ActiveSupport::Testing
there is no need to write custom helpers for testing features requiring a sample file (i.e. file uploads).
Use kwargs in the test’s HTTP methods
Support for keyword arguments is added to the HTTP methods of the controller tests. An example of the new syntax:
post :create, params: { y: x }, format: :json
Improved
Improved performance of integration tests
delegate
turned out to be a bottleneck at the URL generation in the integration tests. With this patch the integration tests of the applications should have a speedup.
Allow hyphenated names for plugins
From now on you can generate a Rails plugin with a hyphenated name (i.e. namespaced engines).
Deprecated
*_via_redirect integration test methods are deprecated
The *_via_redirect
methods are deprecated but do not fear, you can use follow_redirect!
in your test suite for the same behaviour.
Fixed
Fixed HTTP basic authentication nil issue
When request.authorization
returned nil
, Rails raised a NoMethodError
, but this is fixed now.
AR::Relation#group accepts SQL reserved keywords
This patch allows you to group by SQL reserved keywords with the group
method of Active Record.
One More Thing™
Arthur Nogueira Neves is a Rails Committer
Please welcome our newest Rails Committer!
Wrapping up
That’s all for This week in Rails. As always, there are more changes than we have room to cover here, but feel free to check them out yourself!
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