* A new module (ActiveSupport::Autoload) is provide that extends
autoloading with new behavior.
* All autoloads in modules that have extended ActiveSupport::Autoload
will be eagerly required in threadsafe environments
* Autoloads can optionally leave off the path if the path is the same
as full_constant_name.underscore
* It is possible to specify that a group of autoloads live under an
additional path. For instance, all of ActionDispatch's middlewares
are ActionDispatch::MiddlewareName, but they live under
"action_dispatch/middlewares/middleware_name"
* It is possible to specify that a group of autoloads are all found
at the same path. For instance, a number of exceptions might all
be declared there.
* One consequence of this is that testing-related constants are not
autoloaded. To get the testing helpers for a given component,
require "component_name/test_case". For instance, "action_controller/test_case".
* test_help.rb, which is automatically required by a Rails application's
test helper, requires the test_case.rb for all active components, so
this change will not be disruptive in existing or new applications.
* Move #set_cookie and #delete_cookie inline to optimize. These optimizations should
almost certainly be sent back upstream to Rack. The optimization involves using
an ivar for cookies instead of indexing into the headers each time.
* Was able to use a bare Hash for headers now that cookies have their own joining
semantics (some code assumed that the raw cookies were an Array).
* Cache blankness of body on body=
* Improve expand_cache_key for Arrays of a single element (common in our case)
* Use a simple layout condition check unless conditions are used
* Cache visible actions
* Lazily load the UrlRewriter
* Make etag an ivar that is set on prepare!
* The helper module adds a new _helper_serial property onto AbstractController subclasses
* When #helper is used to add helpers to a class, the serial number is updated
* An ActionView subclass is created and cached based on this serial number.
* That subclass includes the helper module from the controller
* Subsequent requests using the same controller with the same serial will result in
reusing that subclass, rather than being forced to take an action (like include
or extend) that will result in a global method cache flush on MRI and a flush
of the entire AV class' cache on JRuby.
* For now, this optimization is not applied to the RJS helpers, which results in
a global method cache flush in MRI and a flush of the JavaScriptGenerator class in
JRuby only when using RJS.
* Since the effects are limited to using RJS, and would only affect JavaScriptGenerator
in JRuby (as opposed to the entire view object), it seems worthwhile to apply this
now.
* This resulted in a significant performance improvement. I will have benchmarks
in the next day or two that show the performance impact of the last several
commits.
* There is a small chance this could break existing code (although I'm not sure how).
If that happens, please report it immediately.
