brendon/acts_as_list

This system is the acts\_as\_list Ruby gem, which provides functionality for sorting and reordering objects within a list. It manages list positioning through configurable scopes, supports various insertion strategies like top or bottom addition, and handles complex scenarios such as composite foreign keys and zero-based indexing. The library is designed for integration with ActiveRecord, offering callbacks and configuration options to control update behaviors and ensure compatibility with modern Rails versions.

The gem's initialization has been updated to use \frozen\_string\_literal: true\ and explicitly load the library via \require "acts\_as\_list"\ instead of directly including the module. The legacy \README\ file has been replaced with a comprehensive \README.md\ that documents installation, usage examples, instance methods, scoping options, and configuration settings. Additionally, a \CHANGELOG.md\ has been introduced to track version history, and a \.gemtest\ file has been added to support gem testing workflows.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The library's internal structure has been reorganized to improve maintainability and load efficiency. The monolithic \lib/list.rb\ file, which previously contained all class and instance methods for the \acts\_as\_list\ extension, has been removed and replaced by \lib/acts\_as\_list.rb\. This new entry point requires a set of specialized modules (such as \position\_column\_method\_definer\, \scope\_method\_definer\, and \callback\_definer\) that break the functionality into smaller, focused components. This change supports lazy loading via \ActiveSupport.on\_load\ and allows for more granular control over which parts of the list functionality are loaded, while preserving the existing public API for sorting and reordering objects.

lib · high confidence

The acts\_as\_list implementation has been restructured to use dedicated module definers (for callbacks, scope, position columns, and configuration) instead of a single monolithic file, improving maintainability. The library now hooks into ActiveRecord via ActiveSupport.on\_load and uses with\_connection for database access, ensuring compatibility with modern Rails versions. Key behavioral updates include exposing configuration via a class-level acts\_as\_list\_options method, adding a public current\_position instance method, and refining scope-change detection to correctly handle array-based scopes and composite foreign keys. The no\_update feature now supports nested blocks and allows specifying additional classes to exclude from updates.

_lib/acts\_as\_list/active\record · high confidence

The test suite has been refactored from Test::Unit to Minitest, introducing a centralized test helper and a suite of shared modules (List, ListSub, ZeroBased, ArrayScopeList, TopAddition, NoAddition, Quoting) to reduce duplication across test cases. This change also adds comprehensive coverage for new and existing features, including array-based scopes, zero-based positioning, top/bottom insertion options, no-update blocks, composite foreign keys, and default scope interactions.

test · high confidence

The acts\_as\_list gem has been updated to version 1.2.6. This release includes the addition of the frozen\_string\_literal pragma to Ruby files to improve performance and memory usage.

_lib/acts\_as\list · high confidence

The gem now explicitly requires external gems that were removed from Ruby's default gems in versions 3.3 and 3.4 (base64, benchmark, bigdecimal, logger, mutex\_m) to prevent runtime errors. It also pins the mysql2 gem to version 0.5.6 and conditionally selects the sqlite3 gem version (1.7.3 for older Rails, 2.7.3 for Rails 7.2+) to ensure compatibility with modern Rails versions. The gemspec has been updated to require ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport versions 6.1 or higher.

(dependencies) · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• First survey — no prior run to compare against. CAI 65.

• Code Health 97
• Architecture 69
• Maturity 52
• Readiness 72
• Security 96

• 300 commits — 252 feature/other, 48 fixes

• (root) — 120 commits
• lib/acts_as_list — 111 commits
• (repo) — 31 commits
• test/test_list.rb — 12 commits
• .github/workflows — 7 commits
• test/helper.rb — 7 commits
• test/shared_list_sub.rb — 4 commits
• .github/FUNDING.yml — 1 commit
• gemfiles/rails_4_1.gemfile — 1 commit
• lib/acts_as_list.rb — 1 commit
• test/shared.rb — 1 commit
• test/shared_list.rb — 1 commit
• test/shared_no_addition.rb — 1 commit
• test/shared_top_addition.rb — 1 commit
• test/test_no_update_for_subclasses.rb — 1 commit

• fix: Add ActiveRecord 7.1 to appraisal and fix deprecation warning (#425)
• fix: Add explicit requirement of ActiveSupport::Inflector. Fixes #386 (#387)
• fix: Add jruby to the mix for the rack 1.x fix
• fix: Added fixed values option for scope array (#286)
• fix: Bug: Test written to confirm bug
• fix: Fix Appraisals configuration
• fix: Fix CI Badge (#434)
• fix: Fix Fixnum deprecation warnings. (#282)
• fix: Fix Ruby version requirement (#432)
• fix: Fix Test Suite (#306)
• fix: Fix automerged Gemfile.
• fix: Fix bug where @scope_changed isn't defined but removal is attempted
• fix: Fix code style.
• fix: Fix crash when deleting an association with composite primary keys (#450)
• fix: Fix data_sources vs tables so that it works in Rails 3.2 and 4.1
• fix: Fix deprecation introduced in ActiveRecord 5.1.
• fix: Fix error in change log due to incorrect tagging of release
• fix: Fix mocha deprecation
• fix: Fix mysql2 gem to 0.5.6 for now until mysql2 gem is fixed
• fix: Fix non regular sequence movement (#237)
• …and 280 more

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