The proper name, as per the documentation guides, is 'Active Record.' I've
updated several references to it as 'ActiveRecord'.

Most of the guides have a few simple sentences describing what they will show
you at the top. This one had a few big paragraphs. I've moved those paragraphs
down to an introductory one, and written a new smaller one for the introduction.
This makes this guide more consistent with the others.

It's properly called "Mac OS X"

This is based on Rails 4, not Rails 3.2.

Revert "correct css selector for the display of validation error messages: changed #error_explanation to #errorExplanation"

At least in master the selector is snake case.

This reverts commit ba2fed41.

From https://github.com/lifo/docrails/commit/cfd324b4b68469ba3188e4b7ba8586e59b239693\#commitcomment-2213592

From https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/6161\#issuecomment-10750118

correct css selector for the display of validation error messages: changed #error_explanation to #errorExplanation

Clarification to ActiveRecord Validations Doc in 7.2 Custom Methods

In the expiration_date_cannot_be_in_the_past validation method, use `expiration_date.present?` instead of the double negative `!expiration_date.blank?`. Also join the comparisons with `&&` instead of `and`, which could cause unintended consequences.

This reverts commit c94cfdad.

* This is the new 4.0 (master) directory structure

* This shows the reader there is a method: and 
  data: parameters

* No need to give a simple example, as we have a
  partial that we create in the blog app

* Rails generate model Post ______ creates the
  attr_accessible line for you for any fields
  you specify. Changed the section to describe
  what this line in the model does.

prevent mass assignment of polymorphic type when using `build`

Conflicts:
	activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

[ci skip]

Allow setting a symbol as path in scope on routes

Closes #8265

Was surprising found that this example doesn't work:

  scope :api do
    resources :users
  end

and the right form to use it is:

  scope 'api' do
    resources :users
  end

I think this should work similary as `namespace` where both are allowed.
These two are equivalent:

  namespace :api do
    resources :users
  end

  namespace 'api' do
    resources :user
  end

Since now these objects are not cached anymore, there's no need to have
these private methods, just instantiate each of them in the necessary
place.

Follow up of the discussion from the original merge commit:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f9cb645dfcb5cc89f59d2f8b58a019486c828c73#commitcomment-1414561

We want to avoid people's mistakes with methods like count and sum when
called with a block, that can easily lead to code performing poorly and
that could be way better written with a db query.

Please check the discussion there for more background.
Closes #8268

Since edd94cee, CollectionProxy
delegates all calculation methods - except count - to the scope,
which does basically what this method was doing, but since we're
delegating from the proxy, the association method was never called.

To perform a sum calculation over the array of elements, use to_a.sum(&block).

Please check the discussion in f9cb645d
for more context.

This reverts commit f9cb645d.

Conflicts:
	activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

Revert "Allow blocks for count with ActiveRecord::Relation. Document and test that sum allows blocks"

This reverts commit 9cc2bf69.

Conflicts:
	activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/calculations.rb

This improves memory and performance without having to use symbols which
present DoS problems. Thanks @headius and @tenderlove for the
suggestion.

This was originally committed in
f1765019, and then reverted in
d3494903 due to it causing problems in a
real application. This second attempt should solve that.

Benchmark
---------

require 'active_record'
require 'benchmark/ips'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(adapter: 'sqlite3', database: ':memory:')

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  connection.create_table :posts, force: true do |t|
    t.string :name
  end
end

post = Post.create name: 'omg'

Benchmark.ips do |r|
  r.report('Post.new')          { Post.new name: 'omg' }
  r.report('post.name')         { post.name }
  r.report('post.name=')        { post.name = 'omg' }
  r.report('Post.find(1).name') { Post.find(1).name }
end

Before
------

Calculating -------------------------------------
            Post.new      1419 i/100ms
           post.name      7538 i/100ms
          post.name=      3024 i/100ms
   Post.find(1).name       243 i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
            Post.new    20637.6 (±12.7%) i/s -     102168 in   5.039578s
           post.name  1167897.7 (±18.2%) i/s -    5186144 in   4.983077s
          post.name=    64305.6 (±9.6%) i/s -     317520 in   4.998720s
   Post.find(1).name     2678.8 (±10.8%) i/s -      13365 in   5.051265s

After
-----

Calculating -------------------------------------
            Post.new      1431 i/100ms
           post.name      7790 i/100ms
          post.name=      3181 i/100ms
   Post.find(1).name       245 i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
            Post.new    21308.8 (±12.2%) i/s -     105894 in   5.053879s
           post.name  1534103.8 (±2.1%) i/s -    7634200 in   4.979405s
          post.name=    67441.0 (±7.5%) i/s -     337186 in   5.037871s
   Post.find(1).name     2681.9 (±10.6%) i/s -      13475 in   5.084511s

Around 0.564359s => 0.092244s speed up in my machine.

Store FlashHashes in the session as plain hashes

Coerce strings in create_join_table.