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A cloned object does not get marked dirty:

obj = Person.first
obj2 = obj.clone
obj2.changed? # => false

This might trip people up who limit expensive validation...

Actionmailer deliberately removes the character set from attachments (line 71 of part.rb simply says: ctype_attrs.delete "charset")

While this may make sense fo...

This issue caused a serious database corruption for me. If you partially retrieve an object from the database with :select and then save it, any serialized attr...

Pawel: I agree, your suggestion is better than mine. I figured that changing reset_session() to not create a new session would break applications that do flash[...

Dominique: session.clear() clears the session but it does not delete it. reset_session() deletes the session but creates a new empty at the same time. So neithe...

Dominique, I do not suggest that reset_session should not remove its old session_id, nor do I want to change its current definition.

My point is that there is c...

Good point. Perhaps an optional parameter to reset_session then? Something like: reset_session(create_new=true)

The current behaviour is not entirely unuseful: I just ran into a case where I would like to really get rid of a session, and not create a new one, as the curre...

This is fixed in 2.3.2

Another workaround is to simply replace reset_session with

session.clear

(you may need to lazy load the session with session[:load] if you haven't used it yet)