YAGNI methods are killing me

In his RailsConf keynote, Aaron Patterson talked about the some problems that comes with inheriting built-in classes. He eloborated on some of those details in this two-part blog post (part 2 here).

Rails Contributors - This week

This week's top contributors include @tenderlove, @senny and @rafaelfranca. Big thanks you to these 30 contributors who helped improve our framework this week. Hope to see you on the list next time! <3 <3 <3

Could not find generator 'migratiooons'. Maybe you meant 'migration'?

If you are like me, you make typos all the time. Don't worry, @schneems got your back. With this pull request, the Rails command line tools can now read your mind.

Related: check out the wikipedia article for the Levenshtein distance function if you want to understand how this feature works.

Active Record objects now support `pretty_print`

Isn't that pretty?

The 'to:' option for a route must contain a '#'

This is a bit of an accidental history, but the to option in the router used to support some bizarre combination of strings and symbols with wildly different semantics. These are now deprecated on master.

Reverted deprecation of `*_filter`

As mentioned last week, the deprecation of *_filter methods in Action Controller are temporarily reverted to make it easier for gems maintainers. You should start migrating to *_action though, because the old methods will eventually be deprecated and removed.

Feature requests should not be filed on the issue tracker

If you would like to propose a new feature before working on it, you can discuss that with fellow contributors at the rubyonrails-core mailing list.

Fixes a memory leak in Strong Parameters

If you read Aaron's blog post, you should be glad that the memory leak he mentioned is now patched on master.

Drastically reduce object allocations

Along the lines of his second part of his blog post, Aaron managed to reduce some unnecessary allocation of ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer by over 67%.

Avoid misuse of underscore argument

Cool Ruby trick – as a convention, Rubyist uses an underscore to represent a method/block argument that you don't care about. Did you know that you can also use def some_method(*); ...; end to ignore all arguments passed to a method?

Fix BC year handling in postgres

If you are building a Rails application for archaeologists, you might be interested in this one. Currently there is a bug that causes these really old dates to be shifted by one when written to the database. Fortunately, @edogawaconan fixed this for us so all your dinasor models should have the correct age now.

By the way, did you know that 0 A.D. does not exists on our timeline? (It is a really awesome open-source video game though.)

R.I.P. rubyforge.org

Thank you for your great service in the past <3