This week in open source

Deprecations

We have officially stopped maintaining the following open source products: limerick_rake, trout, shoulda-context, and jester. Do you want to take over any of them? Let us know!

kumade

The kumade Heroku deployer now has a rake task hook for running code before the deployment (8bd2824). This was done by Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) in the new version: 0.8.2 (52a9348).

paul_revere

The paul_revere notification gem has this sweet button to hide a notification. Ben Orenstein (r00k) changed the duration of this hiding from one day to one year (5a773d4).

bourbon

Phil LaPier (plapier) has released version 1.3.1 of bourbon, the much-loved collection of sass mixins (e90113c). In this version we have a new syntax for animation shorthands, which means the old shorthands are deprecated (e6dcbf5, a6d3a32, 89cc340). Get it while it’s hot!

pacecar

We have a gem that generates scopes for ActiveRecord objects, named pacecar, which you would love if you also love methods that magically appear. Matt Jankowski (mjankowski) released version 1.5.3 (06b5e8e) with support for Rails 3.1.3 and 3.0.11 (dcc30d4) and which treats decimals as numeric column types, giving you all the methods that you need for those, too (ff7bc67).

paperclip

The oft-used paperclip file uploader gem hit version 2.5.0 (071c938) with a NEWS file describing the changes,

Jim Ryan (jimryan) changed paperclip to process any :original style before all others, which can be useful in case order matters (f56e863 and d3db7a1).

Nathan Hyde gave us a performance gain by only generating the file’s fingerprint if it can be persisted (9fb9255 and 4e07681).

Alexander Greim (iltempo) landed a feature on us: S3 headers can be set at runtime by passing a block as the value of the headers instead of a static hash (a83de65 and 7a8d1e6).

Steve Madsen (sjmadsen) found an edge case where if you set an attachment, save it, set a new atachment, save it, then refresh the missing styles using the rake task, it will crash. And he fixed it (dc53432).

And Jon Yurek (jyurek) finally fixed Paperclip::Attachment such that it no longer overrides the Ruby hash method with an unrelated one (3fd4c96).

factory_bot1

As usual, factory_bot got way more commits than I want to read over in one sitting. For example: Simone Carletti (weppos) added a ruby version dependency to the Gemspec (= 1.8.7. Also, there’s no trace of Ruby 1.8.6 support in the .travis.yml file.“>e6e4d8b). He also fixed the link to our blog (11a79a0 and https”>30e13dd).

Things like that.

So on the feature front, Evan Larkin (elarkin) made it such that factories still work if you define a class that overrides the to_s class method (8b3ee85). Dmytrii Nagirniak (dnagir) added support for neo4j (5246fda and 591ec7a). Joshua Clayton (joshuaclayton) made it such that you can call methods that are on the object from within a factory definition (d918c1d).

More wishy-washily, Josh made a bunch of refactorings, the most important of which speeds up the whole product (f2e4138). You can read the rest of the refactorings as code with good commit messages: 2e2d490, 40242e9, 32ff41f, ac1df1d, a022dda, 1c7eab1, d9e0372, and b734b58.

The README was improved with the status of all the dependent gems (768dfaa), by Steve Richert (laserlemon). Daniel Schierbeck (dasch) fixed the formatting of sample code (1e82889).

In the end, Josh released version 2.4.0 (69957ea).

capybara-webkit

Matthew Mongeau (halogenandtoast) had fun taking in pull requests on capybara-webkit. Joe Fiorini (joefiorini) added the requested_url method that produces the URL after a pushState (7f907a0). Niklas Baumstark (niklasb) added submit and path methods (352823d, d07cf3d, 21f4b84, 83905bb, 4ceb874).

John Hume (duelinmarkers) added support for JRuby (0979db4). Pete Gieser (pgieser) fixed a double-escaping bug in URLs (fccb444).

Matthew Mongeau (halogenandtoast) fixed the link to the Capybara README (e2c103c) and linked to the mailing list (d8c640d), and Jo Liss (joliss) recommended bundle exec in more places (7fe06e9).

clearance

Our authentication system aptly named clearance got some love from Chad Pytel (cpytel) and Joe Ferris (jferris), resulting in the release of clearance 0.14.0 (5471159, 214d1dd, and 0dc43a6). The big deal is that the deny_access RSpec match and the flash messages were totally borked. They fixed it (2085f03, 23df300, and 160366e).

fake_braintree

Version 0.1.1 of fake_braintree was released, in which Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw) fixed a bug in the failure message for the have_accessor_for matcher (9d97aa6) and also refactored everything (0a45900, 59a7b60, 3daf2aa, 0f955c6, 3e8745f, bb1f339, 6d7d90c, ac0d550, d2f470e, 3c66129, 8cf7d9c, 157b2a7, 8f21376, 29429ef, e4cef67, 9928436, 94cca24, 7bd4e20, 2dde9ed, e775167, a72e31b, 57f3623, d580024, ad82f0e, 3385e12, cacb537, ae86ebe, c6cead6, a352f33, f7a6cf5, 9f1fb3b, 124706d, ef8b13a, and b20e318).

Project name history can be found here.