Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 and Jruby 1.4 Upgrade Notes

Rails upgrade notes:

1.) Rails now has seeding functionality and along with it comes a new task, db:seed. If you use the seed_fu gem be aware that your db:seed call that worked with the gem is now executing the Rails version of db:seed. You will need to call rake db:seed_fu to get the gem version to work.

2.) ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError no longer exists, so be sure to use ActiveSupport::JSON.parse_error.

3.) Update your rspec and rspec-rails gems to 1.3.x.

4.) Update your rack gem from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1

5.) Rails 2.3.5 works with the RailsXss plugin, in Rails 3 escaping content in erb will default, but if you want to ensure your site isn’t at risk of XSS, make sure you do this install.

Jruby upgrade notes:

If you are using Jruby < 1.4 and you use the net/http library, you better upgrade soon. We were having all sorts of problems with threading and exorbitantly long running requests. There were several bug fixes around the open and read timeout functionality in Jruby 1.4. Now network requests will timeout properly according to your open and read timeout settings.

Jan 15, 2010 | Software | Leave A Comment »

jruby-quartz 1.1 released

I just released jruby-quartz 1.1 on github. Notable changes include support for programmatically firing a job from the base job scheduler instead of relying solely on the scheduled job pool. As a side note, I just realized that github has temporarily stopped building gems since they’ve moved to Rackspace. So if you’re looking to use gem install, you are out of luck until they re-write that system.

Nov 03, 2009 | Software | 1 Comment »

activerecord-jdbc-adapter 0.9.2

About 2 months back I was working on getting a db dump on my current project. I noticed a bunch of the primary keys were missing from tables in the dump file. Irked, I observed that many of tables we hook up to have residual Java Hibernate-isms with non-standard primary keys, basically not ‘id’.

After some digging I found a little problem with activerecord-jdbc-adapter, so I submitted a patch. The good news is that my patch has been included in the latest release. Thanks to Nick Sieger and the gang for including it.

== 0.9.2
- The main, highly awaited fix for this release is a solution to the
  rake db:create/db:drop issue. The main change is a new 'jdbc' rails
  generator that should be run once to prepare a Rails application to
  use JDBC. The upside of this generator is that you no longer will
  need to alter database.yml for JDBC. See the README.txt for details.
- Cleanup and reconnect if errors occur during begin/rollback
  (Jean-Dominique Morani, Christian Seiler)
...
- Fix for mysql tables with non standard primary keys such that the schema dump is correct (Nick Zalabak)

Nov 03, 2009 | Software | Leave A Comment »