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Saturday, October 30 2010

4554 render :text => proc { ... } regression was updated in Ruby on Rails

Kevin Menard commented at 11:27 PM
Rodrigo's point is very good. I'd go so far as to say the deprecation message is just flat out wrong. It's not deprecated if the expected behavior is already re...

Tuesday, July 13 2010

3134 MemCacheStore allows for arbitrary client generated session_ids? was updated in Ruby on Rails

- Importance changed from to
by Kevin Menard at 1:53 PM
I think it's definitely something to worry about. We had legitimate issues as a result of this behavior. But, since the core team stance (per #571) seems to be ...

~~4707~~ ~~accepts_nested_attributes_for '_delete' feature broken in Rails 2.3.8~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

- Importance changed from to Low
by Kevin Menard at 1:23 PM
There was definitely no deprecation message in 2.3.5 and we shouldn't be removing things we deprecate in one point release and then remove it in the next point ...

Monday, June 08 2009

~~571~~ ~~Accepting session_id generated on the outside, when using MemCacheStore as Se...~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

Kevin Menard commented at 7:40 PM
Not sure what the comment is saying. The problem isn't the session data being stored, it's that bad cookies can overwriting existing sessions. This just blew up...
Kevin Menard commented at 7:37 PM
I managed to do this trivially by changing my session ID in my cookie.

Sunday, April 26 2009

~~2515~~ ~~db:schema:dump with PostgreSQLAdapter dumps multiple column indexes in undefi...~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

Kevin Menard commented at 8:54 PM

Michael,

Another issue with using generate_series is that it reintroduces a problem with the original code that the applied patch fixes. Namely, you're imposing...
Kevin Menard commented at 8:51 PM

Tarmo,

You are correct. I missed the mapping step afterwards and thought that the patch was attempting to fix this through SQL only. It would be hard to catch b...

Friday, April 24 2009

~~2515~~ ~~db:schema:dump with PostgreSQLAdapter dumps multiple column indexes in undefi...~~ was updated in Ruby on Rails

Kevin Menard commented at 10:40 PM
It may be safer to collect up the attnum and sort by indkey. While IN appears to a left-to-right comparison, short-circuiting on true, I'm not sure that this is...

2562 Postgres SchemaDumper does not preserve composite index column order was updated in Ruby on Rails

Kevin Menard commented at 10:31 PM
Nevermind. This is a duplicate of #2515 and has already been fixed. I came across the problem before that ticket was opened and didn't get to really investigate...
Kevin Menard created the ticket at 10:15 PM
The schema dumper used by the PostgreSQL adapter does not preserve column order for composite keys. It issues a query against internal Postgres tables and does ...