Active Support Deprecation

Deprecation specifies the API used by Rails to deprecate methods, instance variables, objects, and constants. It’s also available for gems or applications.

For a gem, use Deprecation.new to create a Deprecation object and store it in your module or class (in order for users to be able to configure it).

module MyLibrary
  def self.deprecator
    @deprecator ||= ActiveSupport::Deprecation.new("2.0", "MyLibrary")
  end
end

For a Railtie or Engine, you may also want to add it to the application’s deprecators, so that the application’s configuration can be applied to it.

module MyLibrary
  class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
    initializer "my_library.deprecator" do |app|
      app.deprecators[:my_library] = MyLibrary.deprecator
    end
  end
end

With the above initializer, configuration settings like the following will affect MyLibrary.deprecator:

# in config/environments/test.rb
config.active_support.deprecation = :raise

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DEFAULT_BEHAVIORS = { raise: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) do e = DeprecationException.new(message) e.set_backtrace(callstack.map(&:to_s)) raise e end, stderr: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) do $stderr.puts(message) $stderr.puts callstack.join("\n ") if deprecator.debug end, log: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) do logger = if defined?(Rails.logger) && Rails.logger Rails.logger else require "active_support/logger" ActiveSupport::Logger.new($stderr) end logger.warn message logger.debug callstack.join("\n ") if deprecator.debug end, notify: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) do ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument( "deprecation.#{deprecator.gem_name.underscore.tr("/", "_")}", message: message, callstack: callstack, gem_name: deprecator.gem_name, deprecation_horizon: deprecator.deprecation_horizon, ) end, silence: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) { }, report: ->(message, callstack, deprecator) do error = DeprecationException.new(message) error.set_backtrace(callstack.map(&:to_s)) ActiveSupport.error_reporter.report(error) end }
 

Default warning behaviors per Rails.env.

Attributes

[RW] deprecation_horizon

The version number in which the deprecated behavior will be removed, by default.

Class Public methods

new(deprecation_horizon = "8.0", gem_name = "Rails")

It accepts two parameters on initialization. The first is a version of library and the second is a library name.

ActiveSupport::Deprecation.new('2.0', 'MyLibrary')
📝 Source code 
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecation.rb, line 71
    def initialize(deprecation_horizon = "8.0", gem_name = "Rails")
      self.gem_name = gem_name
      self.deprecation_horizon = deprecation_horizon
      # By default, warnings are not silenced and debugging is off.
      self.silenced = false
      self.debug = false
      @silence_counter = Concurrent::ThreadLocalVar.new(0)
      @explicitly_allowed_warnings = Concurrent::ThreadLocalVar.new(nil)
    end
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