order on the old ones
The previous behavior added a major backward incompatibility since it
impossible to have a upgrade path without major changes on the
application code.
We are taking the most conservative path to be consistent with the idea
of having a smoother upgrade on Rails 4.
We are reverting the behavior for what was in Rails 3.x and,
if needed, we will implement a new API to prepend the order clauses in
Rails 4.1.
The previous implementation was necessary in order to support stuff
like:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
default_scope where(published: true)
scope :ordered, order("created_at")
end
If we didn't evaluate the default scope at the last possible moment
before sending the SQL to the database, it would become impossible to
do:
Post.unscoped.ordered
This is because the default scope would already be bound up in the
"ordered" scope, and therefore wouldn't be removed by the
"Post.unscoped" part.
In 4.0, we have deprecated all "eager" forms of scopes. So now you must
write:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
default_scope { where(published: true) }
scope :ordered, -> { order("created_at") }
end
This prevents the default scope getting bound up inside the "ordered"
scope, which means we can now have a simpler/better/more natural
implementation of default scoping.
A knock on effect is that some things that didn't work properly now do.
For example it was previously impossible to use #except to remove a part
of the default scope, since the default scope was evaluated after the
call to #except.
See #9869 and #9929.
The problem arises from the following example:
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :completed, -> { where completed: true }
end
class MajorProject < Project
end
When calling:
MajorProject.where(tasks_count: 10).completed
This expands to:
MajorProject.where(tasks_count: 10).scoping {
MajorProject.completed
}
However the lambda for the `completed` scope is defined on Project. This
means that when it is called, `self` is Project rather than
MajorProject. So it expands to:
MajorProject.where(tasks_count: 10).scoping {
Project.where(completed: true)
}
Since the scoping was applied on MajorProject, and not Project, this
fails to apply the tasks_count condition.
The solution is to make scoping apply across STI classes. I am slightly
concerned about the possible side-effects of this, but no tests fail and
it seems ok. I guess we'll see.
