What's New in Edge Rails #11

A Fresh Cup - Home - What's New in Edge Rails #11

Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:51AM Week of February 26-March 3, 2012 The big news this week is the switch to requiring whitelisting all Active Record attributes by default. (See Double Shot #831 for some of the nonsense that led up to this). The impact is simple: you need to add an attr_accessible declaration to all of your models before update_attributes will change anything about them. You should have been doing this anyhow. 641a4f62 turns on attribute whitelisting in Active Record by default. This is a change to Rails behavior. ActiveModel::Model shows up in 3b822e91 as a way to make Active Model objects work directly with Action Pack. Documentation is in cb9d03f0 . 9b2c38b7 reduces the default connection pool size to 1 in new applications, trusting that people who need more for multithreaded applications will know what to do. A little sugar: d6366625 adds last_year , last...

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