On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Marcus Rueckert<darix / opensu.se> wrote:
> On 2009-07-21 18:14:59 +0900, Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
>> I've just been told by another Japanese rubyist that 1.8.6 added some new
>> public API.  ¨Β§ν ξευτςατο τθατβυθοξεστμω βισυςπςισεατ ιτ βεγαυσ>> AFAIK there was no discussion on this list about this change.  ¨Βαξ σονεοξσθοχ
>> me a pointer on such discussion if any?
>>
>> wyhaines / ruby-lang.org wrote:
>> > wyhaines 009-07-10 03:48:23 +0900 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009)
>> >
>> > New Revision: 24008
>> >
>> > http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24008
>> >
>> > Log:
>> > Removed private on to_date and to_datetime.
>> >
>> > Modified files:
>> > branches/ruby_1_8_6/ChangeLog
>> > branches/ruby_1_8_6/lib/date.rb
>> > branches/ruby_1_8_6/version.h
>>
>
>
> I think he just applied my patch there. The thing is. Those methods had
> been in rails i think for quite a bit. then in some 1.8.6 patch release
> the methods suddenly got added as private methods in ruby core, with a
> sync from upstream of date2. that broke many rails applications.

This was solved in Rails in early 2007:
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/593b1b837d24e61ea8f5386d66669585f3c14d5a

Those affected can upgrade Rails or hotfix their app using:
http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/0c68d23f19010379a9320690ca17a26743c8f071/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time/publicize_conversion_methods.rb

Best,
jeremy