Hi everyone,

Rails 3.2.9.rc1 has been released. If no regressions are found I will release 3.2.9 final this Thursday 1st. If you find a regression open an issue on github and mention me on it, mail me or tweet me, whatever but let me know :).

CHANGES since 3.2.8

Action Mailer

• Do not render views when mail() isn’t called. Fix #7761

  Yves Senn

Action Pack

• Accept :remote as symbolic option for link_to helper. Riley Lynch

• Warn when the :locals option is passed to assert_template outside of a view test case Fix #3415

  Yves Senn

• Rename internal variables on ActionController::TemplateAssertions to prevent naming collisions. @partials, @templates and @layouts are now prefixed with an underscore. Fix #7459

  Yves Senn

• resource and resources don’t modify the passed options hash Fix #7777

  Yves Senn

• Precompiled assets include aliases from foo.js to foo/index.js and vice versa.

  # Precompiles phone-<digest>.css and aliases phone/index.css to phone.css.
  config.assets.precompile = [ 'phone.css' ]
  
  # Precompiles phone/index-<digest>.css and aliases phone.css to phone/index.css.
  config.assets.precompile = [ 'phone/index.css' ]
  
  # Both of these work with either precompile thanks to their aliases.
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'phone', media: 'all' %>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'phone/index', media: 'all' %>
  

  Jeremy Kemper

• assert_template is no more passing with what ever string that matches with the template name.

  Before when we have a template /layout/hello.html.erb, assert_template was passing with any string that matches. This behavior allowed false positive like:

  assert_template "layout"
  assert_template "out/hello"
  

  Now it only passes with:

  assert_template "layout/hello"
  assert_template "hello"
  

  Fixes #3849.

  Hugolnx

• Handle ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile like Rack::Test::UploadedFile, don’t call to_param on it. Since Rack::Test::UploadedFile isn’t API compatible this is needed to test file uploads that rely on tempfile being available.

  Tim Vandecasteele

• Fixed a bug with shorthand routes scoped with the :module option not adding the module to the controller as described in issue #6497. This should now work properly:

  scope :module => "engine" do
    get "api/version" # routes to engine/api#version
  end
  

  Luiz Felipe Garcia Pereira

• Respect config.digest = false for asset_path

  Previously, the asset_path internals only respected the :digest option, but ignored the global config setting. This meant that config.digest = false could not be used in conjunction with config.compile = false this corrects the behavior.

  Peter Wagenet

• Fix #7646, the log now displays the correct status code when an exception is raised.

  Yves Senn

• Fix handling of date selects when using both disabled and discard options. Fixes #7431.

  Vasiliy Ermolovich

• Fix select_tag when option_tags is nil. Fixes #7404.

  Sandeep Ravichandran

• javascript_include_tag :all will now not include application.js if the file does not exists. Prem Sichanugrist

• Support cookie jar options (e.g., domain :all) for all session stores. Fixes GH#3047, GH#2483.

  Ravil Bayramgalin

• Performance Improvement to send_file: Avoid having to pass an open file handle as the response body. Rack::Sendfile will usually intercept the response and just uses the path directly, so no reason to open the file. This performance improvement also resolves an issue with jRuby encodings, and is the reason for the backport, see issue #6844.

  Jeremy Kemper & Erich Menge

Active Model

• Due to a change in builder, nil values and empty strings now generates closed tags, so instead of this:

  <pseudonyms nil=\"true\"></pseudonyms>
  

  It generates this:

  <pseudonyms nil=\"true\"/>
  

  Carlos Antonio da Silva

Active Record

• Fix bug where update_columns and update_column would not let you update the primary key column.

  Henrik Nyh

• Decode URI encoded attributes on database connection URLs.

  Shawn Veader

• Fix AR#dup to nullify the validation errors in the dup’ed object. Previously the original and the dup’ed object shared the same errors.

  • Christian Seiler*

• Synchronize around deleting from the reserved connections hash. Fixes #7955

• PostgreSQL adapter correctly fetches default values when using multiple schemas and domains in a db. Fixes #7914

  Arturo Pie

• Fix deprecation notice when loading a collection association that selects columns from other tables, if a new record was previously built using that association.

  Ernie Miller

• The postgres adapter now supports tables with capital letters. Fix #5920

  Yves Senn

• CollectionAssociation#count returns 0 without querying if the parent record is not persisted.

  Before:

  person.pets.count
  # SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "pets" WHERE "pets"."person_id" IS NULL
  # => 0
  

  After:

  person.pets.count
  # fires without sql query
  # => 0
  

  Francesco Rodriguez

• Fix reset_counters crashing on has_many :through associations. Fix #7822.

  lulalala

• ConnectionPool recognizes checkout_timeout spec key as taking precedence over legacy wait_timeout spec key, can be used to avoid conflict with mysql2 use of wait_timeout. Closes #7684.

  jrochkind

• Rename field_changed? to _field_changed? so that users can create a field named field

  Akira Matsuda, backported by Steve Klabnik

• Fix creation of through association models when using collection=[] on a has_many :through association from an unsaved model. Fix #7661.

  Ernie Miller

• Explain only normal CRUD sql (select / update / insert / delete). Fix problem that explains unexplainable sql. Closes #7544 #6458.

  kennyj

• Backport test coverage to ensure that PostgreSQL auto-reconnect functionality remains healthy.

  Steve Jorgensen

• Use config[‘encoding’] instead of config[‘charset’] when executing databases.rake in the mysql/mysql2. A correct option for a database.yml is ‘encoding’.

  kennyj

• Fix ConnectionAdapters::Column.type_cast_code integer conversion, to always convert values to integer calling #to_i. Fixes #7509.

  Thiago Pradi

• Fix time column type casting for invalid time string values to correctly return nil.

  Adam Meehan

• Fix becomes when using a configured inheritance_column.

  Yves Senn

• Fix reset_counters when there are multiple belongs_to association with the same foreign key and one of them have a counter cache. Fixes #5200.

  Dave Desrochers

• Round usec when comparing timestamp attributes in the dirty tracking. Fixes #6975.

  kennyj

• Use inversed parent for first and last child of has_many association.

  Ravil Bayramgalin

• Fix Column.microseconds and Column.fast_string_to_date to avoid converting timestamp seconds to a float, since it occasionally results in inaccuracies with microsecond-precision times. Fixes #7352.

  Ari Pollak

• Fix increment!, decrement!, toggle! that was skipping callbacks. Fixes #7306.

  Rafael Mendonça França

• Fix AR#create to return an unsaved record when AR::RecordInvalid is raised. Fixes #3217.

  Dave Yeu

• Remove unnecessary transaction when assigning has_one associations with a nil or equal value. Fix #7191.

  kennyj

• Allow store to work with an empty column. Fix #4840.

  Jeremy Walker

• Remove prepared statement from system query in postgresql adapter. Fix #5872.

  Ivan Evtuhovich

• Make sure :environment task is executed before db:schema:load or db:structure:load Fixes #4772.

  Seamus Abshere

Active Resource

• No changes

Active Support

• Add logger.push_tags and .pop_tags to complement logger.tagged:

  class Job
    def before
      Rails.logger.push_tags :jobs, self.class.name
    end
  
    def after
      Rails.logger.pop_tags 2
    end
  end
  

  Jeremy Kemper

• Add %:z and %::z format string support to ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone#strftime. [fixes #6962] kennyj

Railties

• Don’t eager-load app/assets and app/views Elia Schito

• Update supported ruby versions error message in ruby_version_check.rb Lihan Li

SHA-1

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• 8b3171fdde905c76a541286192e6cef211d83a70 activemodel-3.2.9.rc1.gem
• 0752e47880da4bb9be2b0309bce5a444a9271420 activerecord-3.2.9.rc1.gem
• d8c1eeedbf3bc33d1560700cc70cb1752cdc811a activeresource-3.2.9.rc1.gem
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• 6fdc627a032f1f3ded7830e044298e20fd3fc6ce rails-3.2.9.rc1.gem
• 444da0c3f2a1e3200d2a613973062c2d3e4ad7d0 railties-3.2.9.rc1.gem

You can find a list of changes between v3.2.8 and v3.2.9.rc1 here

Thanks to everyone!