*SVN*
* Fixed that Action View should always use the included Builder, never attempt to require the gem, to ensure compatibility
* Added that nil options are not included in tags, so tag("p", :ignore => nil) now returns <p /> not <p ignore="" /> but that tag("p", :ignore => "") still includes it #1465 [michael@schuerig.de]
* Fixed that UrlHelper#link_to_unless/link_to_if used html_escape on the name if no link was to be applied. This is unnecessary and breaks its use with images #1649 [joergd@pobox.com]
* Improved error message for DoubleRenderError
* Fixed routing to allow for testing of *path components #1650 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Added :handle as an option to sortable_element to restrict the drag handle to a given class #1642 [thejohnny]
* Added a bunch of script.aculo.us features #1644, #1677 [Thomas Fuchs]
* Effect.ScrollTo, to smoothly scroll the page to an element
* Better Firefox flickering handling on SlideUp/SlideDown
* Removed a possible memory leak in IE with draggables
* Added support for cancelling dragging my hitting ESC
* Added capability to remove draggables/droppables and redeclare sortables in dragdrop.js (this makes it possible to call sortable_element on the same element more than once, e.g. in AJAX returns that modify the sortable element. all current sortable 'stuff' on the element will be discarded and the sortable will be rebuilt)
* Always reset background color on Effect.Highlight; this make change backwards-compatibility, to be sure include style="background-color:(target-color)" on your elements or else elements will fall back to their CSS rules (which is a good thing in most circumstances)
* Removed circular references from element to prevent memory leaks (still not completely gone in IE)
* Changes to class extension in effects.js
* Make Effect.Highlight restore any previously set background color when finishing (makes effect work with CSS classes that set a background color)
* Fixed that named routes didn't use the default values for action and possible other parameters #1534 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Fixed JavascriptHelper#visual_effect to use camelize such that :blind_up will work #1639 [pelletierm@eastmedia.net]
* Fixed that a SessionRestoreError was thrown if a model object was placed in the session that wasn't available to all controllers. This means that it's no longer necessary to use the 'model :post' work-around in ApplicationController to have a Post model in your session.
*1.9.0* (6 July, 2005)
* Added logging of the request URI in the benchmark statement (makes it easy to grep for slow actions)
* Added javascript_include_tag :defaults shortcut that'll include all the default javascripts included with Action Pack (prototype, effects, controls, dragdrop)
* Cache several controller variables that are expensive to calculate #1229 [skaes@web.de]
* The session class backing CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore may be replaced with any class that duck-types with a subset of Active Record. See docs for details #1238 [skaes@web.de]
* Fixed that hashes was not working properly when passed by GET to lighttpd #849 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Fixed assert_template nil will be true when no template was rendered #1565 [maceywj@telus.net]
* Added :prompt option to FormOptions#select (and the users of it, like FormOptions#select_country etc) to create "Please select" style descriptors #1181 [Michael Schuerig]
* Added JavascriptHelper#update_element_function, which returns a Javascript function (or expression) that'll update a DOM element according to the options passed #933 [mortonda@dgrmm.net]. Examples:
<%= update_element_function("products", :action => :insert, :position => :bottom, :content => "<p>New product!</p>") %>
<% update_element_function("products", :action => :replace, :binding => binding) do %>
<p>Product 1</p>
<p>Product 2</p>
<% end %>
* Added :field_name option to DateHelper#select_(year|month|day) to deviate from the year/month/day defaults #1266 [Marcel Molina]
* Added JavascriptHelper#draggable_element and JavascriptHelper#drop_receiving_element to facilitate easy dragging and dropping through the script.aculo.us libraries #1578 [Thomas Fuchs]
* Added that UrlHelper#mail_to will now also encode the default link title #749 [f.svehla@gmail.com]
* Removed the default option of wrap=virtual on FormHelper#text_area to ensure XHTML compatibility #1300 [thomas@columbus.rr.com]
* Adds the ability to include XML CDATA tags using Builder #1563 [Josh Knowles]. Example:
xml.cdata! "some text" # => <![CDATA[some text]]>
* Added evaluation of <SCRIPT> blocks in content returned to Ajax calls #1577 [Thomas Fuchs/court3nay/Sean Treadway]
* Directly generate paths with a leading slash instead of tacking it on later. #1543 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Fixed errant parameter modification in functional tests. #1542 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Routes fail with leading slash #1540 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Added support for graceful error handling of Ajax calls #1217 [Jamis Buck/Thomas Fuchs]. Example:
link_to_remote(
"test",
:url => { :action => "faulty" },
:update => { :success => "good", :failure => "bad" },
403 => "alert('Forbidden- got ya!')",
404 => "alert('Nothing there...?')",
:failure => "alert('Unkown error ' + request.status)")
* Attempt to explicitly flush the output at the end of CgiProcess#out
* Fixed assert_redirected_to to handle absolute controller paths properly #1472 [Rick Olson/Nicholas Seckar]
* Added event-based observations when frequency is not set on observe_field/form #1474 [flash@vanklinkenbergsoftware.nl]
* Added script.aculo.us Javascripts (controls.js, dragdrop.js, effects.js) (NEEDS MORE DESCRIPTION) #1509 [Thomas Fuchs]
* Fixed prototype to consider all fields it doesn't know as text (such as Safari's search) just like the browser in its serialization #1497 [Sean Treadway]
* Improved performance of Routes generation by a factor of 5 #1434 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Added named routes (NEEDS BETTER DESCRIPTION) #1434 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Improved AbstractRequest documentation #1483 [court3nay@gmail.com]
* Added ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency to control whether the application is thread-safe, so multi-threaded servers like WEBrick knows whether to apply a mutex around the performance of each action. Turned off by default. EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE.
* Added TextHelper#word_wrap(text, line_length = 80) #1449 [tuxie@dekadance.se]
* Added a fall-through action for form_remote_tag that'll be used in case Javascript is unavailable #1459 [Scott Barron]. Example:
form_remote_tag :html => { :action => url_for(:controller => "some", :action => "place") }
* Added :xhr => true/false option to verify so you can ensure that a request is coming from an Ajax call or not #1464 [Thomas Fuchs]
* Added tag_options as a third parameter to AssetHelper#auto_discovery_link_tag to control options like the title of the link #1430 [kevin.clark@gmail.com]
* Added option to pass in parameters to CaptureHelper#capture, so you can create more advanced view helper methods #1466 [duane.johnson@gmail.com]. Example:
<% show_calendar(:year => 2005, :month => 6) do |day, options| %>
<% options[:bgcolor] = '#dfd' if 10..15.include? day %>
[<%= day %>]
<% end %>
* Changed the default name of the input tag generated by FormTagHelper#submit_tag from "submit" to "commit" so it doesn't clash with form.submit() calls in Javascript #1271
* Fixed relative urls support for lighttpd #1048 [Nicholas Seckar/maznawak@nerim.net]
* Correct distance_of_time_in_words for integer arguments and make the second arg optional, treating the first arg as a duration in seconds. #1458 [madrobby <thomas@fesch.at>]
* Fixed query parser to deal gracefully with equal signs inside keys and values #1345 [gorou].
Example: /?sig=abcdef=:foobar=&x=y will pass now.
* Added Cuba to country list #1351 [todd]
* Fixed radio_button to work with numeric values #1352 [demetrius]
* Added :extension option to NumberHelper#number_to_phone #1361 [delynnb]
* Added button_to as a form-based solution to deal with harmful actions that should be hidden behind POSTs. This makes it just as easy as link_to to create a safe trigger for actions like destroy, although it's limited by being a block element, the fixed look, and a no-no inside other forms. #1371 [tom@moertel.com]
* Fixed image_tag so an exception is not thrown just because the image is missing and alt value can't be generated #1395 [Marcel]
* Added a third parameter to TextHelper#auto_link called href_options for specifying additional tag options on the links generated #1401 [tyler.kovacs@gmail.com]. Example: auto_link(text, :all, { :target => "_blank" }) to have all the generated links open in a new window.
* Fixed TextHelper#highlight to return the text, not nil, if the phrase is blank #1409 [patrick@lenz.sh]
* Fixed TagHelper such that :name and 'name' keys in the options doesn't result in two attributes #1455 [take_tk]
* Ensure that helpers are only available to the controllers where they are defined and their subclasses. #1394 [kdole@tamu.edu]
* render("foo/bar") works with a layout again
* Fixed double-singularization on scaffolded pagination call (Address would be turned into Addres) #1216, #1404 [nilsga]
* Removed the require hack used by functional testing to work around an earlier bug in rake.
* Allow distance_of_time_in_words to work with any value that responds to #to_time (like dates) #969
* Support :render option for :verify #1440 [TobiasLuetke]
* Updated vendor copy of html-scanner lib to 0.5.2, for bug fixes and optimizations. The :content option may be used as expected--to find a tag whose textual content is a particular value--in assert_tag, now.
* Changed test requests to come from 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 such that they don't trigger debugging screens on exceptions, but instead call rescue_action_in_public
* Modernize scaffolding to match the generator: use the new render method and change style from the warty @params["id"] to the sleek params[:id]. #1367
* Include :id in the action generated by the form helper method. Then, for example, the controller can do Model.find(params[:id]) for both edit and update actions. Updated scaffolding to take advantage. #1367
* Add assertions with friendly messages to TestCase#process to ensure that @controller, @request, and @response are set. #1367
* Arrays, hashes sent via multipart posts are converted to strings #1032 [dj@omelia.org, me@julik.nl]
* render(:layout => true) is a synonym for render(:layout => nil)
* Make sure the benchmarking render method always returns the output of the render.
* render(:action), render(:template) and render() are the only three calls that default to using a layout. All other render calls assume :layout => false. This also fixes send_file, which was applying a layout if one existed for the current action.
* verify with :redirect_to won't redirect if a redirect or render has already been performed #1350
* render(:partial => true) is identical to the behavior of the deprecated render_partial()
* Fixed render(:partial => "...") to use an empty Hash for the local assigns #1365
* Fixed Caching::Fragments::FileStore.delete to not raise an exception if the delete fails.
* Deprecated all render_* methods in favor of consolidating all rendering behavior in Base#render(options). This enables more natural use of combining options, such as layouts. Examples:
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| BEFORE | AFTER |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| render_with_layout "weblog/show", "200 OK", "layouts/dialog" | render :action => "show", :layout => "dialog" |
| render_without_layout "weblog/show" | render :action => "show", :layout => false |
| render_action "error", "404 Not Found" | render :action => "error", :status => "404 Not Found" |
| render_template "xml.div('stuff')", "200 OK", :rxml | render :inline => "xml.div('stuff')", :type => :rxml |
| render_text "hello world!" | render :text => "hello world!" |
| render_partial_collection "person", @people, nil, :a => 1 | render :partial => "person", :collection => @people, |
| | :locals => { :a => 1 } |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
* Deprecated redirect_to_path and redirect_to_url in favor of letting redirect_to do the right thing when passed either a path or url.
* Fixed use of an integer as return code for renders, so render_text "hello world", 404 now works #1327
* Fixed assert_redirect_to to work with redirect_to_path #869 [Nicholas Seckar]
* Fixed escaping of :method option in remote_form_tag #1218 [Rick Olson]
* Added Serbia and Montenegro to the country_select #1239 [todd@robotcoop.com]
* Fixed Request#remote_ip in testing #1251 [Jeremy Kemper]
* Fixed that compute_public_path should recognize external URLs, so image_tag("http://www.example.com/images/icon.gif") is not prefixed with the relative url path #1254 [victor-ronr-trac@carotena.net]
* Added support for descending year values in DateHelper#select_year, like select_year(Date.today, :start_year => 2005, :end_year => 1900), which would count down from 2005 to 1900 instead of the other way #1274 [nwoods@mail.com]
* Fixed that FormHelper#checkbox should return a checked checkbox if the value is the same as checked_value #1286 [Florian Weber]
* Fixed Form.disable in Prototype #1317 [Wintermute]
* Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, flash, and headers from the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller
* Added support for POST data in form of YAML or XML, which is controller through the Content-Type header. Example request:
Content-Type: application/xml
<request><item><content>HelloWorld</content></item></request>
...is the same as:
Content-Type: application/x-yaml
---
item:
content: HelloWorld
...is the same as:
item[content]=HelloWorld
Which in the end turns into { "item" => { "content" => "HelloWorld" } }. This makes it a lot easier to publish REST web services on top of your regular actions (as they won't care).
Example Curl call:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' -d '<request><item><content>KillMeMore</content></item></request>' http://www.example.com/service
You can query to find out whether a given request came through as one of these types with:
- request.post_format? (:url_encoded, :xml or :yaml)
- request.formatted_post? (for either xml or yaml)
- request.xml_post?
- request.yaml_post?
* Added bundling of XmlSimple by Maik Schmidt
* Fixed that render_partial_collection should always return a string (and not sometimes an array, despite <%= %> not caring)
* Added TextHelper#sanitize that can will remove any Javascript handlers, blocks, and forms from an input of HTML. This allows for use of HTML on public sites, but still be free of XSS issues. #1277 [Jamis Buck]
* Fixed the HTML scanner used by assert_tag where a infinite loop could be caused by a stray less-than sign in the input #1270 [Jamis Buck]
* Added functionality to assert_tag, so you can now do tests on the siblings of a node, to assert that some element comes before or after the element in question, or just to assert that some element exists as a sibling #1226 [Jamis Buck]
* Added better error handling for regexp caching expiration
* Fixed handling of requests coming from unknown HTTP methods not to kill the server
* Added that both AssetHelper#stylesheet_link_tag and AssetHelper#javascript_include_tag now accept an option hash as the last parameter, so you can do stuff like: stylesheet_link_tag "style", :media => "all"
* Added FormTagHelper#image_submit_tag for making submit buttons that uses images
* Added ActionController::Base.asset_host that will then be used by all the asset helpers. This enables you to easily offload static content like javascripts and images to a separate server tuned just for that.
* Fixed action/fragment caching using the filestore when a directory and a file wanted to to use the same name. Now there's a .cache prefix that sidesteps the conflict #1188 [imbcmdth@hotmail.com]
* Fixed missing id uniqueness in FormTag#radio_button #1207 [Jarkko]
* Fixed assert_redirected_to to work with :only_path => false #1204 [Alisdair McDiarmid]
* Fixed render_partial_collection to output an empty string instead of nil when handed an empty array #1202 [Ryan Carver]
* Improved the speed of regular expression expirations for caching by a factor of 10 #1221 [Jamis Buck]
* Removed dumping of template assigns on the rescue page as it would very easily include a ton of data making page loads take seconds (and the information was rarely helpful) #1222
* Added BenchmarkHelper that can measure the execution time of a block in a template and reports the result to the log. Example:
<% benchmark "Notes section" do %>
<%= expensive_notes_operation %>
<% end %>
Will add something like "Notes section (0.345234)" to the log.
* Added ActionController::Caching::Sweeper as an improved an easier to use sweeper. The new sweepers work on a single-step approach instead of two-steps like the old ones. Before
def after_save(record)
@list = record.is_a?(List) ? record : record.list
end
def filter(controller)
controller.expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => %w( show public feed ), :id => @list.id)
controller.expire_action(:controller => "lists", :action => "all")
@list.shares.each { |share| controller.expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => "show", :id => share.url_key) }
end
..after:
def after_save(record)
list = record.is_a?(List) ? record : record.list
expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => %w( show public feed ), :id => list.id)
expire_action(:controller => "lists", :action => "all")
list.shares.each { |share| expire_page(:controller => "lists", :action => "show", :id => share.url_key) }
end
The new sweepers can also observe on the actions themselves by implementing methods according to (before|after)_$controller_$action. Example of a callback that'll be called after PagesController#update_title has been performed:
def after_pages_update_title
expire_fragment(%r{pages/#{controller.assigns["page"].id}/.*})
end
Note that missing_method is delegated to the controller instance, which is assigned in a before filter. This means that you can call expire_fragment instead of @controller.expire_fragment.
* Added that Fragments#expire_fragment now accepts as a regular expression as the name thereby deprecating expire_matched_fragments
* Fixed that fragments shouldn't use the current host and the path as part of the key like pages does
* Added conditions to around_filters just like before_filter and after_filter
*1.8.1* (20th April, 2005)
* Added xml_http_request/xhr method for simulating XMLHttpRequest in functional tests #1151 [Sam Stephenson]. Example:
xhr :post, :index
* Fixed that Ajax.Base.options.asynchronous wasn't being respected in Ajax.Request (thanks Jon Casey)
* Fixed that :get, :post, and the others should take a flash array as the third argument just like process #1144 [rails@cogentdude.com]
* Fixed a problem with Flash.now
* Fixed stringification on all assigned hashes. The sacrifice is that assigns[:person] won't work in testing. Instead assigns["person"] or assigns(:person) must be used. In other words, the keys of assigns stay strings but we've added a method-based accessor to appease the need for symbols.
* Fixed that rendering a template would require a connection to the database #1146
*1.8.0* (19th April, 2005)
* Added assert_tag and assert_no_tag as a much improved alternative to the deprecated assert_template_xpath_match #1126 [Jamis Buck]
* Deprecated the majority of all the testing assertions and replaced them with a much smaller core and access to all the collections the old assertions relied on. That way the regular test/unit assertions can be used against these. Added documentation about how to use it all.
* Added a wide range of new Javascript effects:
* Effect.Puff zooms the element out and makes it smoothly transparent at the same time, giving a "puff" illusion #996 [thomas@fesch.at]
After the animation is completed, the display property will be set to none.
This effect will work on relative and absolute positioned elements.
* Effect.Appear as the opposite of Effect.Fade #990 [thomas@fesch.at]
You should return elements with style="display:none;" or a like class for this to work best and have no chance of flicker.
* Effect.Squish for scaling down an element and making it disappear at the end #972 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Effect.Scale for smoothly scaling images or text up and down #972 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Effect.Fade which smoothly turns opacity from 100 to 0 and then hides the element #960 [thomas@fesch.at]
* Added Request#xml_http_request? (and an alias xhr?) to that'll return true when the request came from one of the Javascript helper methods (Ajax). This can be used to give one behavior for modern browsers supporting Ajax, another to old browsers #1127 [Sam Stephenson]
* Changed render_partial to take local assigns as the second parameter instead of an explicit object and then the assigns. So the API changes from:
<%= render_partial "account", person, "rules" => regulations.rules %>
...to:
<%= render_partial "account", :account => person, :rules => regulations.rules %>
The old API will still work, though, and render_partial "account" will still assume :account => @account.
* Added support for web servers that use PATH_INFO instead of REQUEST_URI like IIS #1014 [BradG/Nicholas Seckar]
* Added graceful handling of PUT, DELETE, and OPTIONS requests for a complete coverage of REST functionality #1136 [joshknowles@gmail.com]
* Fixed that you can now pass an alternative :href option to link_to_function/remote in order to point to somewhere other than # if the javascript fails or is turned off. You can do the same with form_remote_tag by passing in :action. #1113 [Sam Stephenson]
* Fixed DateHelper to return values on the option tags such that they'll work properly in IE with form_remote_tag #1024 [Scott Raymond]
* Fixed FormTagHelper#check_box to respect checked #1049 [DelynnB]
* Added that render_partial called from a controller will use the action name as default #828 [Dan Peterson]
* Added Element.toggle, Element.show, and Element.hide to the prototype javascript library. Toggle.display has been deprecated, but will still work #992 [Lucas Carlson]
* Added that deleting a cookie should not just set it to an empty string but also instantly expire it #1118 [todd@robotcoop.com]
* Added AssetTagHelper#image_path, AssetTagHelper#javascript_path, and AssetTagHelper#stylesheet_path #1110 [Larry Halff]
* Fixed url_for(nil) in functional tests #1116 [Alisdair McDiarmid]
* Fixed error handling of broken layouts #1115 [Michael Schubert]
* Added submit_to_remote that allows you to trigger an Ajax form submition at the click of the submission button, which allows for multiple targets in a single form through the use of multiple submit buttons #930 [yrashk@gmail.com]
* Fixed pagination to work with joins #1034 [scott@sigkill.org]
* Fixed that *rest parameter in map.connect couldn't accept an empty list #1037 [Dee.Zsombor@gmail.com]
* Added :confirm option to link_to_remote just like link_to has #1082 [yrashk@fp.org.ua]
* Added minute_step as an option to select_minute (and the helpers that use it) to jump in larger increments than just 1 minute. At 15, it would return 0, 15, 30, 45 options #1085 [ordwaye@evergreen.edu]
* Fixed that an exception would be thrown when an empty form was submitted #1090 [jan@ulbrich-boerwang.de]
* Moved TextHelper#human_size to NumberHelper#number_to_human_size, but kept an deprecated alias to the old method name
* Fixed that the content-type for some browsers could include an additional \r which made wonky things happen #1067 [Thomas Fuchs]
* Fixed that radio buttons shouldn't have a default size attribute #1074 [hendrik@mans.de]
* Added ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_RADIO_OPTIONS that contains a hash of default options for radio buttons #1074 [hendrik@mans.de]
* Fixed that in some circumstances controllers outside of modules may have hidden ones inside module
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