UPGRADING.md

Upgrading

1.7.0

• Adds support for dynamic scoring
• substract_points is deprecated in favor of subtract_points. Careless computers didn't mind my misspellings. ;-)
• JRuby and Rubinius compatibility

1.6.0

• Rails 4 ready.
• Adds ability to wildcard controllers like:

grant_on '.*search#index', badge: 'searcher', multiple: true

• Allows custom fields to be defined on badges [97c998f]. Example: Merit::Badge.create!({ id: 1, name: 'best-unicorn', custom_fields: { category: 'fantasy' } })

1.5.0

• Adds Merit::ActivityLog join model between Merit::Action and Merit::BadgesSash and Merit::Score::Point for logging purposes. Every time a badge is granted or removed, or points are changed, a new ActivityLog object gets created.
• Namespaces Badge, Sash and BadgesSash into Merit module. If your app uses any of those class names, you should add a Merit:: prefix.
• Removes undocumented log:string column from merit_actions.

Run the following migration to upgrade from 1.4.0:

class UpgradeMeritTo150 < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    remove_column :merit_actions, :log
    create_table "merit_activity_logs", :force => true do |t|
      t.integer  "action_id"
      t.string   "related_change_type"
      t.integer  "related_change_id"
      t.string   "description"
      t.datetime "created_at"
    end
  end
end

1.4.0

• Removed BadgesSash#set_notified! undocumented method from code base.
• :to option for points and badges granting may now return an array of objects. For instance:

# All user's comments earn points
score 2, to: :user_comments, on: 'comments#vote'

to 1.3.0

Adds two methods meant to display a leaderboard.

• Badge.last_granted(options = {}). Accepts options:

  • :since_date (1.month.ago by default)
  • :limit (10 by default).

  It lists last 10 badge grants in the last month, unless you change query parameters.

• Merit::Score.top_scored(options = {}). Accepts options:

  • :table_name (users by default)
  • :since_date (1.month.ago by default)
  • :limit (10 by default).

  It lists top 10 scored objects in the last month, unless you change query parameters.

to 1.2.0

• Badge#grant_to(meritable_object) no longer exists. Use meritable_object.add_badge(badge_id) (may add badges more than once).
• Badge#delete_from(meritable_object) no longer exists. Use meritable_object.rm_badge(badge_id).

to 1.1.0

Code refactorings. Support for Ruby 1.8.7 has been dropped.

to 1.0.1

Adds Merit::Point#created_at (merit_score_points table) attribute. May already be added if upgrading from merit < 1).

to 1.0.0

Points granting history is now logged.

• Attribute points and method points= don't exist anymore (method points still works for querying number of points for a resource).
• There are new methods add_points(num_points, log_message) and remove_points(num_points, log_message) in meritable resources to manually change their amount of points, keeping a history log.

Run the following migration to have the new DB tables:

class UpgradeMerit < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :merit_scores do |t|
      t.references :sash
      t.string :category, :default => 'default'
    end

    create_table :merit_score_points do |t|
      t.references :score
      t.integer :num_points, :default => 0
      t.string :log
      t.datetime :created_at
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :merit_scores
    drop_table :merit_score_points
  end
end

# This will create a single point entry log, with previous points granted
# to each meritable resource. Code example for a User class.

class UpgradeMeritableResources < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    User.find_each do |user|
      unless user.sash
        user.sash = Sash.create!
        user.save
      end

      user.sash.scores << Merit::Score.create
      user.add_points(user.read_attribute(:points), 'Initial merit points import.')
    end
    remove_column :users, :points
  end
end

If you get an ActiveRecord::DangerousAttributeError: points exception, you may need to temporarily tweak your meritable model, as explained in http://stackoverflow.com/a/1515571/356060.

to 0.10.0

badges_sashes table gets a primary key id column. Run the following migration:

class AddIdToBadgesSashes < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    add_column :badges_sashes, :id, :primary_key
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :badges_sashes, :id
  end
end

set_notified!(badge = nil, sash = nil) no longer exists, just call set_notified! over the badge_sash object, with no parameters.

to 0.9.0

Adds allow_multiple boolean option to Badge#grant_to (defaults to false). If you used this method to grant a badge it will now grant only if resource doesn't have the badge.

Use badge.grant_to resource, :allow_multiple => true where needed.

to 0.8.0

No changes needed. Adds Mongoid support.

to 0.7.0

No changes needed. Adds :multiple boolean option to grant_on to grant badge multiple times.

to 0.6.0

MeritBadgeRules, MeritPointRules and MeritRankRules are now namespaced into Merit module. Move and change:

app/models/merit_{badge|point|rank}_rules.rb -> app/models/merit/{badge|point|rank}_rules.rb

-class Merit{Badge|Point|Rank}Rules
-  include Merit::{Badge|Point|Rank}Rules
+module Merit
+  class {Badge|Point|Rank}Rules
+  include Merit::{Badge|Point|Rank}RulesMethods

to 0.5.0

Add log:string column to merit_actions table.

to 0.4.0

Rankings are now integer attributes (level), they are not badges anymore. set_rank doesn't accept badge_name anymore.

to 0.3.0

Badges data is now stored in config/initializers/merit.rb using ambry syntax (not in the DB anymore, as that table needed to be in sync in all development environments).

to 0.2.0

Added had_errors boolean attribute to merit_actions table.