Porting plugins to Redmine 3¶

• Porting plugins to Redmine 3
  • Query interface changes
  • Observers were removed
  • ^ and $ in regexps
  • Attributes assignment protection
  • Update should use PATCH now

Query interface changes¶

In Rails 4 queries get built using chained method calls. In Rails 3 you used hashes.

• Use joins() instead of :include.
• Use where() instead of :conditions.
• Use order() instead of :order.
• And so on.

Also, .find(:all) should be replaced with just .all() and .find_all_by_* should be replaced with .where().

Observers were removed¶

All things, you did before using observers, now should be done directly in models, e.g., by monkey-patching them.

^ and $ in regexps¶

The system does not allow ^ and $ in regular expressions any longer - you should replace them with \A and \z correspondingly.

Attributes assignment protection¶

In Rails 4 you have to use either attr_accessible or attr_protected (seems to be preferred by Redmine guys) to white-list or black-list attributes for mass assignment.

Otherwise you are going to get: WARNING: Can't mass-assign protected attributes for YourModelClass: attribute1, attribute2

Update should use PATCH now¶

Rails guys decided, that the PATCH HTTP method sounds better for update, so everyone is now forced to switch from PUT to PATCH.

Certainly, you could modify the code to still use PUT, but I would not go this way (as it’s going to be non-standard since Rails 4)...