What's New in Edge Rails #13

What's New in Edge Rails #13:

Monday, March 19, 2012 at 5:02AM Week of March 11-March 17, 2012 The big news this week: Active Resource has been removed from Rails, and "API only" Rails applications put in a brief appearance before going back to the drawing board. Text fields and text areas no longer have default size, rows, or cols as of 3384ee24 . It's 2012, if you want a default set it in your CSS. eee32af45 adds a dynamic find_or_create_by_{attribute}! method to Active Record. With f1637bf2 Active Resource has been removed from Rails. It will be available as a separate gem if anyone wants to maintain it, though I suspect most people who need that sort of functionality are using one of the alternatives already. c1f397f88 merges a chunk of work to remove sprockets integration from Action Pack and depend on the sprockets-rails gem instead. dde3058c7 removes the Active Record IdentityMap feature, which ...

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