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Published March 15, 2018 | Version betydb_4.20
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BETYdb 4.20 Upgrade to Rails 4.2

Creators

  • 1. University of Illinois
  • 2. National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • 3. NCSA
  • 4. Boston University

Description

Draft Release Notes (Rails 4.2)

Upgrade to Rails 4.2; several bug fixes. Summary of Changes

This release upgrades the version of Rails used from 3.2 to 4.2.

New features

  • Added Rake tasks for dumping and updating SQL comments using YAML files (pull request #543).

  • On the Advanced Search page, traits and yields are now searchable by method name (pull request #506)

  • When creating or editing Managements, possible management types now include "thining" and "other" (pull request #546).

Bug fixes

  • Issue #533 ("Trait/entity notes don't get populated through Bulk Upload Wizard")

    If a Bulk Upload file has a "notes" column, those notes now show up in the newly-created traits or yields.

  • Issue #552 ("Travis fails trying to create postgis extension.")

    Travis now runs RSpec successfully so builds no longer always fail.

Other Changes

  • Updated DBMS named in the README file from MySQL to PostgreSQL (long overdue).

  • Docker cleanup (pull requests #537 and #550).

Steps Needed for Upgrade

  1. Log in to the server.
  2. cd to the Rails root directory.
  3. Run git pull to get the lastest version of the master branch.
  4. Run bundle to upgrade several Gems (including Rails itself) and to add new Gems that are no longer part of Rails proper are that are needed to support legacy Rails behaviors until code is updated to no longer need this legacy support.
  5. The file config/secrets.yml expects a variable called SECRET_KEY_BASE to be in the environment. To generate a suitable value for this variable, run rake secret.
  6. Ensure this variable is in the environment seen by the HTTP server. If you run your BETYdb app under Apache HTTP server, one way to do this is to put a directive of the form 
    SetEnv SECRET_KEY_BASE some_secret_key
    in the <Directory> section of the configuration file corresponding to the BETYdb instance you have deployed.
  7. Restart the HTTP server, e.g. sudo apachectl restart.

[In lieu of steps 6 and 7, you could also edit config/secrets.yml directly, replacing

<%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>

with the value you generated in step 5; then restart PhusionPassenger by running touch tmp/restart.txt. This is not the preferred way of doing things, however, since Git will then always show this file as modified.]

Status of RSpec Tests

All non-pending tests pass when run in the default environment. (There is one pending test having to do with site-group editing permissions.)

Complete details for running the RSpec tests are at https://pecan.gitbooks.io/betydb-documentation/content/automated_tests.html.

Notes

Development of BETYdb is supported by the National Science Foundation (ABI #1062547, ABI #1458021), the Department of Energy (ARPA-E awards #DE-AR0000594 and DE-AR0000598), and the Energy Biosciences Institute.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
https://github.com/PecanProject/bety/tree/betydb_4.20 (URL)

Funding

Collaborative Proposal: ABI Innovation: Model-data synthesis and forecasting across the upper Midwest: Partitioning uncertainty and environmental heterogeneity in ecosystem carbon 1062547
National Science Foundation

References

  • LeBauer, D., Kooper, R., Mulrooney, P., Rohde, S., Wang, D., Long, S. P., & Dietze, M. C. (2018). BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second‐generation bioenergy feedstock production. GCB Bioenergy, 10(1), 61-71
  • LeBauer, David, Michael Dietze, Rob Kooper, Steven Long, Patrick Mulrooney, Gareth Scott Rohde, Dan Wang (2010). Biofuel Ecophysiological Traits and Yields Database (BETYdb), Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. doi:10.13012/J8H41PB9