Upgrading ubiquo to Rails 2.3.11

1 Installing required gems

Obviously we need to install the new rails gem


sudo gem install rails -v 2.3.11 --no-ri --no-rdoc

2 Update environment.rb

Once installed, we need to update our config/environment.rb file and point it to use the Rails 2.3.11 version:


RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.11' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION

3 Apply the patch to your application

Now that you have your application running 2.3.11, you have to apply the patch described in the Rails link above.

This basically means 3 steps:

In your application controller, you have to delete any possible cookie you have set in case the request is not verified. For example you can use this code as a base


def handle_unverified_request
  super
  cookies.delete(:auth_token) # deletes ubiquo authentication
  # now delete any possible public-part cookies
  raise ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken # optional, if you want to hear about possible problems
end

In all your layouts you should send the csrf meta:


<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<%= csrf_meta_tag %>

Finally, to ensure that all the javascript requests include this meta, you should add the following snippet

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/assets/2011/2/8/prototype-snippet.js

This should be present everywhere js requests are initiated. You can include it in a common javascript file, for example in ubiquo.js if you don’t have a public site in your ubiquo app.

4 Upgrade the ubiquo gem

Finally, you should also upgrade to the last ubiquo gem so new projects use the latest Rails version.


sudo gem install ubiquo --no-ri --no-rdoc

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