Rails 3?

[Tom Hughes]

On 06/09/11 12:59, Jonathan Bennett wrote:

> How far has anyone got with making the Rails Port work on Rails 3? What
> are the blockers, and what will it give us?

The simple answer is that I have a branch where I have been working on 
it and it is largely functional.

There are a few tests failing still, all I believe relating to our use 
of compound keys and the composite_primary_key plugin.

There is also some work to be done on replacing deprecated find methods 
with newer AREL based record selection. That isn't essential for rails 
3.0 as the old methods still work, but 3.1 is out now and the old 
methods have been removed from that.

As to what it gives us, well the obvious answer is continued updates for 
bugs (particularly security issues) in the core rails platform.

There are significant advantages to AREL in terms of making some of our 
code a lot cleaner where we are trying to daisy chain user provided 
selection criteria together.

It also opens the door to moving from prototype to jquery which will 
hopefully enable many clever things. Rails 3.0 defaults to prototype but 
can use jquery instead. Rails 3.1 defaults to jquery, but can use 
prototype instead.

Tom

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