ActiveScaffold

One month and 270 revisions after RC1 we’re finally ready to release RC2. What does that mean exactly? For one, it means we were using the term ‘release candidate’ pretty liberally before, but we really mean it this time. Most importantly it means that ActiveScaffold is feature complete and the API is stable for 1.0.

What’s left before 1.0? Just clearing out our existing bugs and waiting to what ones are created by this release itself. But the bugs left are largely edge cases and not impairing core functionality and for this reason we’re officially deprecating AjaxScaffold and redirecting everyone to ActiveScaffold. We feel ActiveScaffold is ready for prime time.

Before we get ahead of ourselves there are a few changes to API that will break some of your code from RC1…

Form and Field Override Methods

The arguments on field and form override methods have changed:

Field Overrides

#{column_name}_column(value, record) is now #{column_name}_column(record)

Form Overrides

#{column_name}_form_column(record) is now #{column_name}_form_column(record, input_name)

See the docs on Field Overrides and Form Overrides for more information

Security API

There have been a number of changes to how security works, your best bet is to check out the updated security docs

Subversion Changes

We’re deleting the ‘current’ svn tag so make sure you’re using the ‘activescaffold’ tag (If you’ve installed the plugin using script/plugin as prescribed in Getting Started then you’re fine).

Thanks and enjoy

Update 4/16/2007 10am PST: A couple of changes didn’t make it into the release initially, so if you downloaded or checked out RC2 before now please re-download or svn update.