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 »