State of Rails Releases

I am dealing with multiple Rails applications at once some of which are funded right and some of which have ran into maintenance modes. I just wanted to have a pictorial representation of what is the state of each of the Rails versions, unfortunately, I cannot get one. So I spent half an hour trying to decode the Rails official releases page and came up with this.

If you closely observe, the Rails releases 3.0.x and 3.1.x are history (I don't even want to pull up data for releases before that). It is high time you plan to upgrade your stack to a minimum of Rails 4.2 before you loose all the goodness the Rails community has to offer. Yes, I know it is a herculean task for folks in 3.x in which case I recommend you to do a complete rewrite of your application piecemeal by piecemeal!

Data Source: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/releases/

Cheers,

Braga

Ransack namespace collision - The search method

I am a big fan of Ransack, the Rails gem for quickly building a quick and easy Search based on pure ActiveRecord queries. For projects that require some on the fly search without having to set up dedicated Search Engines like Elastic Search, SOLR, ThinkinSphinx - this is a very juicy alternative.

However I recently faced one problem when I introduced this to a project where there already was SOLR integrated. It was because of the collision of the search method.

This simply patch did the job for me. All you have to do is include it to your initializers folder say under config/initializers/ransack.rb

That's it, the Ransack library will no longer collide with your existing suite. As a matter of fact the method search deprecated already and the library itself wants us to use the Alias ransack

Cheers!
Braga