I think this is an ideal warning and a good incentive to follow good practises and 'move on'.  It not only avoids nasty surprises, but also forces you to re-think your code to ensure your tests no longer blurt out piles of deprecation warnings, but also that your logs don't grow out of control before they are cleaned.

Cheers,
Jamie van Dyke
Fear of Fish

On 26 Jul 2006, at 02:23, Michael Koziarski wrote:

Hey guys,

Rails has been around for a while, and it's about time we got serious
about deprecating APIs which we no longer intend to support.   Without
getting into a discussion about which code precisely is going to be
deprecated,  I thought I'd describe what's going to happen.

If you run your tests, and your application calls a deprecated api
you'll see the following information printed to stdout.

@@@@@@@@@@ Deprecation Warning @@@@@@@@@@
Detailed Message Goes Here
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

One of these ugly printouts for every deprecated method call in your
application.  When your application is in development or production
mode this same information will be output to your RAILS_ENV.log.

This unrepentant spamming is deliberate.   Unlike some other
frameworks you may use,  a deprecation warning in rails isn't a
threat,  it's a promise.   It will be removed in the next major rails
release.

So,   what are people's thoughts about the warning methods, will it
get your attention?

-- 
Cheers

Koz
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