Support rails 7.1

[jrafanie]

7.0 EOL is April 1, 2025
7.1 EOL is October 1, 2025

https://rubyonrails.org/maintenance
https://endoflife.date/rails

Upgrade notes

• https://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#upgrading-from-rails-7-0-to-rails-7-1
• 7.0 and 7.1 configuration defaults to be tested and possibly changed if it breaks us: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v7.1.5.1/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb#L219-L331.
• Here are some interesting rails 7.0/7.1 configuration defaults:
  • Avoid validating belongs_to association if it has not changed rails/rails#46522
  • Disable config.add_autoload_paths_to_load_path by default in Rails 7.1 rails/rails#44133 (we override)
  • Introduce config.dom_testing_default_html_version and use Rails::Dom::Testing to parse HTML in test helpers rails/rails#48682 (html 5 parsing default in rails dom testing)
  • Run transactional callbacks on instances most likely to match DB state rails/rails#45280 (transactional callbacks changed)
  • Raise on assignment to readonly attributes rails/rails#46105 (raise on readonly attribute assignment)
  • Stop serializing columns as YAML by default rails/rails#47422 (we undid this one for YAML serializing by default)
  • Add a encryption option to support previous data encrypted non-deterministically with a SHA1 hash digest rails/rails#48530
  • Hide changes to before_committed! behaviour behind config rails/rails#46739
  • Implement marshal_dump and marshal_load on ActiveRecord::Base rails/rails#47747 (could affect session dump/load with Marshal)
  • Remove X-Download-Options default header rails/rails#43968

TODO, now that 7.1 is merged on master

• [WIP] Use config.load_defaults for rails 7 with overrides #23176 (moved to Rails 7.1 #23225)
• Check for alias_attribute usage with virtual_column|attribute or virtual_(belongs_to|has_many) not detected in tests. Some cross repos have warnings for this deprecated behavior.

Rails.application.credentials instead of deprecated secrets (deprecated in 7.1, removed in 7.2 (for later)

• Use Rails.application.credentials instead of deprecated secrets #23254
• Reset cached secrets on Rails 7.0 #23259
• Add gitignores for rails credentials #23263
• [WIP] Use rails credentials instead of secrets manageiq-providers-vmware#928
• [WIP] Switch from secrets to rails credentials manageiq-providers-autosde#253
• [WIP] Use Rails credentials instead of deprecated and removed secrets guides#553
• [WIP] Update plugin generator to switch from rails secrets to credentials #23266
• Review all plugins - See https://github.com/search?q=org%3AManageIQ%20Rails.application.secrets&type=code

Completed

• Rails 7.1 #23225
  • Above includes: Undo the concurrent-ruby < 1.3.5 changes made in the core PR and linked PRs
• Rails 7.1 support activerecord-virtual_attributes#168
• Rails 7.1 friendly attribute changes #23337
• Wrap all automate logger calls to process the request_id manageiq-automation_engine#567
• Test each subhash for included attributes, not subhash equality manageiq-api#1280
• With rails 7.1, these nil values are not persisted manageiq-providers-amazon#884
• Use rails 7 cache format as 7 can read either 6 or 7 #23210
• Add a wrap method to support BroadcastLogger/ActiveSupport::Logger.broadcast manageiq-loggers#63
• Upgrade rspec-rails for rails 7.1 support #23245
• Rails 4? Remove long since deprecated bridge monkey patch #23247
• Fix deprecations using activesupport deprecation #23249
• Use the rails 7.1+ serialize interface manageiq-consumption#224
• resource is an association, not an attribute, add getter/setter aliases manageiq-providers-awx#37
• Allow test failures on 7.1 and 7.2 for now manageiq-schema#767
• Use the rails 7.1+ serialize interface #23253
• Upgrade config to latest 5.x version for rails 7.1 compatibility #23275
• Treat result of to_h to be hashes recursively (support config gem 3+) manageiq-api#1275
• Fix scramsha migration test failures on rails 7.1 manageiq-schema#768
  • Allow the rails method to be called and change the result only when called from the migration manageiq-schema#776
• Fix rails 7 deprecation/7.1 removal by using Integer#to_fs(:human_size) manageiq-content#759
• rails 7.1: response.parsed_body is now a HashWithIndifferentAccess manageiq-api#1279
• Rails 7.1 / Rails 7.0 compatible changes manageiq-ui-classic#9336
• Avoid calling MiqQueue.messaging_client and stub it as missing #23331
• Specify the FQ class name for the provisioning manager #23330
• Expose attribute aliases in list of attributes manageiq-api#1278
• Expose attribute_aliases as attributes manageiq-automation_engine#565

Loosen dependencies:

• Use core minimum but allow 7.0/7.1/7.2 since core sets upper limit (breaking change) activerecord-id_regions#40
• Fix the broken test matrix and drop old rubies and rails (breaking change) inventory_refresh#139
• Use core minimum but allow 7.0/7.1/7.2 since core sets upper limit manageiq-api-client#129
• Update ruby rails dependencies (breaking change) manageiq-messaging#94
• Update ruby rails dependencies (breaking change) manageiq-postgres_ha_admin#50
• Use core minimum but allow 7.0/7.1/7.2 since core sets upper limit manageiq-schema#754
• Use core minimum but allow 7.0/7.1/7.2 since core sets upper limit manageiq-ui-classic#9274
• Add rails 7.1 and 7.2 support manageiq-schema#756
• Drop end of life rails < 7 and only support rubies 7 supports, 2.7+ (breaking change) ovirt_metrics#58

Fix rjs broken in rails 7.1

• Resurrect capture of blocks for RJS update in rails 7.1 jquery-rjs#11

gem releases and dependency bump

• virtual attributes 7.1.0
• jquery-rjs 0.1.1.4
• id_regions 0.5.0
• inventory refresh 2.2.0
• api client 0.6.0
• messaging 1.5.0
• postgres_ha_admin 3.4.0
• loggers 1.2.0
• vmware web service with activesupport no longer a dependency (released as 3.4.0)