Category Archives: Rails

Major Change to Hash.from_xml in Rails 2.3.4

Recently after upgrading a Rails app to Rails 2.3.4 I noticed my Soap service calls throwing errors. After a little investigation I found this commit:

The problem is that since String#underscore lowercases the string, any Hashes created using Hash.from_xml with xml that contain any capital letters in the node names will break when updating to Rails [...]

Installing a Ruby on Rails Plugin from a Github Branch

One of the coolest things about Git is how easy it makes working with branches. Rails has been playing catch up with Git’s distributed methodologies and recently took a nice step forward. Previously you could only useĀ ./script/plugin install to install from the master branch of a Github repository. Now you can specify the branch name [...]