Tuesday, April 19, 2005

From Riding Rails - Update is easy

Rails 0.12.1: No major update without a bit of pain. There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were almost as swift as the reports. In any case, you’ll definitely want to upgrade to 0.12.1 right away. There’s a good handful of fixes for both Action Pack and Active Record (mostly concerning the new eager loading). Here’s the dirt, so you don’t have to go look it up. First for Action Pack: 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 Then for Active Record: Fixed frivilous database queries being triggered with eager loading on empty associations and other things Fixed order of loading in eager associations Fixed stray comma when using eager loading and ordering together from has_many associations #1143 Updating, as always, couldn’t be easier than gem install rails --include-dependencies. [Riding Rails] 9:24:35 PM     comment [] trackback []

Character Blogs from Steve Rubel

Steve Rubel, of MicroPersuasion, Character Blogs are a Complete Waste of Time... I completly agree with Steve's comments.  The Market is a Conversation..., keep talking... 2:19:41 PM     comment [] trackback []

Version Control Vulnerability in CVS is fixed...

Vulnerability in CVS Software is Patched. Serious vulnerabilities have been found in Concurrent Versions System, a source code maintenance system used by many open source development projects [Netcraft] 2:15:04 PM     comment [] trackback []

FireFox is gaining ground

Firefox is #1 Boing Boing browser. Cory Doctorow: Kris sez, "Firefox has taken the lead in the Internet Browser war for Boing Boing! Firefox currently leads with 38.4% of visitors using the browser, and Internet Explorer is in 2nd place with 35.1% of visitors using it. This is probably the first time in Boing Boing's history, that Internet Explorer is not #1... Microsoft, watch out!" I switched from Mozilla to Firefox a couple months ago and never looked back. Link (Thanks, Kris!) [Boing Boing] 2:03:44 PM     comment [] trackback []