First things first, ar-extensions moved to Lighthouse and Github. So please no more tickets or patches on rubyforge. I’ll close out or move over the ones on rubyforge that currently reside there.

• ar-extensions at Lighthouse
• ar-extensions at GitHub

Now, the fun stuff.

ar-extensions and Rails 2.x compability

For the most part ar-extensions 0.7.0 (and below) is not compatible with Rails 2.0.x and 2.1. The import functionality works, but ar-extensions will bork on some edge cases of using ActiveRecord::Base.find methods. It won’t return the wrong value, it will simply raise an exception. So if you’re using ar-extensions in your Rails 2.x app, the app itself will probably bork (and I realize that you probably already know this). If you’re using the import functionality in isolation then you should be fine.

Some of the loading issues with ar-extensions that people had are due to ar-extensions being loaded during the time that Rails goes through the loading process (if you put require ‘ar-extensions’ in config/environments/development.rb, test.rb or production.rb). You can get around this by moving if after the Rails::Initializer.run block in your config/environment.rb file.

Tonight I made several commits to get ar-extensions closer to Rails 2.1.0 compatibility. HEAD right now is Rails 2.0.1 compatible, but not 2.0.2 or 2.1.0 compatible. As soon as ar-extensions is compatible I will release 0.8.0. I am hoping for it to be released within the next few days. And by compatible I mean that ar-extensions not only passes its own tests, but it also doesn’t break any of ActiveRecord’s tests.