Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations

About this time last year, I covered Ruby on Rails 5.2 Deprecations and got lots of appreciative feedback. With the upcoming next major update of Ruby on Rails, I'd figure that I would do a new article and make it a tradition.

NOTE: Ruby on Rails 6.0 will require Ruby 2.5.0. So if you're stuck on an older version of Ruby for whatever reason, you may want to consider holding off on updating your application to 6.0.

I will likely update this article as later betas and release candidates come.

ActionMailer

Deprecate ActionMailer::Base.receive in favor of Action Mailbox.

Add MailDeliveryJob for delivering both regular and parameterized mail. Deprecate using DeliveryJob and Parameterized::DeliveryJob.

ActionPack

Remove deprecated fragment_cache_key helper in favor of combined_fragment_cache_key.

Remove deprecated methods in ActionDispatch::TestResponse. #success?, missing? and error? were deprecated in Rails 5.2 in favor of #successful?, not_found? and server_error?.

Deprecate ActionDispatch::Http::ParameterFilter in favor of ActiveSupport::ParameterFilter.

Controller level force_ssl has been deprecated in favor of config.force_ssl.

ActionView

Remove deprecated image_alt helper.

Deprecate calling private model methods from view helpers. For example, in methods like options_from_collection_for_select and collection_select it is possible to call private methods from the objects used.

ActiveRecord

Remove deprecated #set_state from the transaction object.

Remove deprecated #supports_statement_cache? from the database adapters.

Remove deprecated #insert_fixtures from the database adapters.

Remove deprecated ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLite3Adapter#valid_alter_table_type?.

Deprecate config.activerecord.sqlite3.represent_boolean_as_integer.

Remove deprecated ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrations_path=.

Remove deprecated expand_hash_conditions_for_aggregates.

Deprecate passing migrations_paths to connection.assume_migrated_upto_version.

Deprecate ActiveRecord::Result#to_hash in favor of ActiveRecord::Result#to_a.

Deprecate column_name_length, table_name_length, columns_per_table, indexes_per_table, columns_per_multicolumn_index, sql_query_length, and joins_per_query methods in DatabaseLimits.

Deprecate update_attributes/! in favor of update/!.

ActiveStorage

Replace config.active_storage.queue with two options that indicate which queues analysis and purge jobs should use, respectively:

• config.active_storage.queues.analysis
• config.active_storage.queues.purge

config.active_storage.queue is preferred over the new options when it's set, but it is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 6.1.

Add ActiveStorage::Blob#open, which downloads a blob to a tempfile on disk and yields the tempfile. Deprecate ActiveStorage::Downloading.

Use the ImageProcessing gem for Active Storage variants, and deprecate the MiniMagick backend.

This means that variants are now automatically oriented if the original image was rotated. Also, in addition to the existing ImageMagick operations, variants can now use :resize_to_fit, :resize_to_fill, and other ImageProcessing macros. These are now recommended over raw :resize, as they also sharpen the thumbnail after resizing.

The ImageProcessing gem also comes with a backend implemented on libvips, an alternative to ImageMagick which has significantly better performance than ImageMagick in most cases, both in terms of speed and memory usage. In Active Storage it's now possible to switch to the libvips backend by changing Rails.application.config.active_storage.variant_processor to :vips.

ActiveSupport

Remove deprecated Module#reachable? method.

Remove deprecated #acronym_regex method from Inflections.

Deprecate ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Unicode#pack_graphemes(array) and ActiveSuppport::Multibyte::Unicode#unpack_graphemes(string) in favor of array.flatten.pack("U*") and string.scan(/\X/).map(&:codepoints), respectively.

Deprecate ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars.consumes? in favor of String#is_utf8?.

Deprecate ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Unicode#normalize and ActiveSuppport::Multibyte::Chars#normalize in favor of String#unicode_normalize

Deprecate ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Unicode#downcase/upcase/swapcase in favor ofString#downcase/upcase/swapcase.

Deprecate the use of LoggerSilence in favor of ActiveSupport::LoggerSilence

Deprecate using negative limits in String#first and String#last.

Allow Range#=== and Range#cover? on Range.

Range#cover? can now accept a range argument like Range#include? and Range#===. Range#=== works correctly on Ruby 2.6. Range#include? is moved into a new file, with these two methods

Requiring active_support/core_ext/range/include_range is now deprecated. Use require "active_support/core_ext/range/compare_range" instead.