Rails 3.0.0.rcEdit
Pieced together from individual CHANGELOG files:
Action Mailer
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* No material changes
Active Record
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Changed update_attribute to not run callbacks and update the record directly in the database [Neeraj Singh]
* Add scoping and unscoped as the syntax to replace the old with_scope and with_exclusive_scope [José Valim]
* New rake task, db:migrate:status, displays status of migrations #4947 [Kevin Skoglund]
* select and order for ActiveRecord now always concatenate nested calls. Use reorder if you want the original order to be overwritten [Santiago Pastorino]
* PostgreSQL: ensure the database time zone matches Ruby's time zone #4895 [Aaron Patterson]
Active Resource
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* No material changes
Active Support
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Removed Object#returning, Object#tap should be used instead. [Santiago Pastorino]
* Deprecation behavior is no longer hardcoded to the name of the environment.
Instead, it is set via config.active_support.deprecation and can be one
of :log, :stderr or :notify. :notify is a new style that sends the warning
via ActiveSupport::Notifications, and is the new default for production
[Yehuda Katz]
* Renamed ActiveSupport::Dependecies.load_(once_)paths to autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Added ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker to execute a block only if a set of files changed, used by Router and I18n locale files. [José Valim]
* Added ActiveSupport::DescendantsTracker to track descendants with support to constants reloading. [José Valim]
* ActiveSupport::OrderedHash#merge and [/tags/merge #merge]! accept a block. #4838 [Paul Mucur, fxn]
* Date#since, [/tags/ago #ago], #beginning_of_day, #end_of_day, and [/tags/xmlschema #xmlschema] honor now the user time zone if set. [Geoff Buesing]
Railties
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Application generation: --skip-testunit and --skip-activerecord become --skip-test-unit
and --skip-active-record respectively. [fxn]
* Added console to Rails::Railtie as a hook called just after console starts. [José Valim]
* Rails no longer autoload code in lib for application. You need to explicitly require it. [José Valim]
* Rails::LogSubscriber was renamed to ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber [José Valim]
* config.load_(once_)paths in config/application.rb got renamed to config.autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Abort generation/booting on Ruby 1.9.1. [fxn]
* Made the rails command work even when you're in a subdirectory [Chad Fowler]
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* No material changes
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Changed update_attribute to not run callbacks and update the record directly in the database [Neeraj Singh]
* Add scoping and unscoped as the syntax to replace the old with_scope and with_exclusive_scope [José Valim]
* New rake task, db:migrate:status, displays status of migrations #4947 [Kevin Skoglund]
* select and order for ActiveRecord now always concatenate nested calls. Use reorder if you want the original order to be overwritten [Santiago Pastorino]
* PostgreSQL: ensure the database time zone matches Ruby's time zone #4895 [Aaron Patterson]
Active Resource
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* No material changes
Active Support
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Removed Object#returning, Object#tap should be used instead. [Santiago Pastorino]
* Deprecation behavior is no longer hardcoded to the name of the environment.
Instead, it is set via config.active_support.deprecation and can be one
of :log, :stderr or :notify. :notify is a new style that sends the warning
via ActiveSupport::Notifications, and is the new default for production
[Yehuda Katz]
* Renamed ActiveSupport::Dependecies.load_(once_)paths to autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Added ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker to execute a block only if a set of files changed, used by Router and I18n locale files. [José Valim]
* Added ActiveSupport::DescendantsTracker to track descendants with support to constants reloading. [José Valim]
* ActiveSupport::OrderedHash#merge and [/tags/merge #merge]! accept a block. #4838 [Paul Mucur, fxn]
* Date#since, [/tags/ago #ago], #beginning_of_day, #end_of_day, and [/tags/xmlschema #xmlschema] honor now the user time zone if set. [Geoff Buesing]
Railties
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Application generation: --skip-testunit and --skip-activerecord become --skip-test-unit
and --skip-active-record respectively. [fxn]
* Added console to Rails::Railtie as a hook called just after console starts. [José Valim]
* Rails no longer autoload code in lib for application. You need to explicitly require it. [José Valim]
* Rails::LogSubscriber was renamed to ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber [José Valim]
* config.load_(once_)paths in config/application.rb got renamed to config.autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Abort generation/booting on Ruby 1.9.1. [fxn]
* Made the rails command work even when you're in a subdirectory [Chad Fowler]
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* No material changes
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Removed Object#returning, Object#tap should be used instead. [Santiago Pastorino]
* Deprecation behavior is no longer hardcoded to the name of the environment.
Instead, it is set via config.active_support.deprecation and can be one
of :log, :stderr or :notify. :notify is a new style that sends the warning
via ActiveSupport::Notifications, and is the new default for production
[Yehuda Katz]
* Renamed ActiveSupport::Dependecies.load_(once_)paths to autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Added ActiveSupport::FileUpdateChecker to execute a block only if a set of files changed, used by Router and I18n locale files. [José Valim]
* Added ActiveSupport::DescendantsTracker to track descendants with support to constants reloading. [José Valim]
* ActiveSupport::OrderedHash#merge and [/tags/merge #merge]! accept a block. #4838 [Paul Mucur, fxn]
* Date#since, [/tags/ago #ago], #beginning_of_day, #end_of_day, and [/tags/xmlschema #xmlschema] honor now the user time zone if set. [Geoff Buesing]
Railties
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Application generation: --skip-testunit and --skip-activerecord become --skip-test-unit
and --skip-active-record respectively. [fxn]
* Added console to Rails::Railtie as a hook called just after console starts. [José Valim]
* Rails no longer autoload code in lib for application. You need to explicitly require it. [José Valim]
* Rails::LogSubscriber was renamed to ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber [José Valim]
* config.load_(once_)paths in config/application.rb got renamed to config.autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Abort generation/booting on Ruby 1.9.1. [fxn]
* Made the rails command work even when you're in a subdirectory [Chad Fowler]
*Rails 3.0.0 [release candidate] (July 26th, 2010)*
* Application generation: --skip-testunit and --skip-activerecord become --skip-test-unit
and --skip-active-record respectively. [fxn]
* Added console to Rails::Railtie as a hook called just after console starts. [José Valim]
* Rails no longer autoload code in lib for application. You need to explicitly require it. [José Valim]
* Rails::LogSubscriber was renamed to ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber [José Valim]
* config.load_(once_)paths in config/application.rb got renamed to config.autoload_(once_)paths. [fxn]
* Abort generation/booting on Ruby 1.9.1. [fxn]
* Made the rails command work even when you're in a subdirectory [Chad Fowler]