# List of rails deprecations?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/list-of-rails-deprecations/49165>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 30, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/list-of-rails-deprecations/49165 "2005-11-30T21:38:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/finn)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/list-of-rails-deprecations/49165/1 "2005-11-30T21:38:29Z")

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Is there a comprehensive list of deprecated methods and arguments for  
rails? I know there have been some shifts over the past year (the render  
methods, find methods, etc.) but thought I might have missed some. I  
looked in the usual places (wiki, docs) but didn’t see much.

Maybe there’s some way I can generate this information from the  
documentation or the changelogs?

-F

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**Author:** ![finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/finn)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/list-of-rails-deprecations/49165/2 "2005-11-30T22:06:54Z")

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:59:59PM -0500, Finn S. wrote:

> Is there a comprehensive list of deprecated methods and arguments for  
> rails? I know there have been some shifts over the past year (the render  
> methods, find methods, etc.) but thought I might have missed some. I  
> looked in the usual places (wiki, docs) but didn’t see much.
> 
> Maybe there’s some way I can generate this information from the  
> documentation or the changelogs?

Here’s a start:  
% ls  
actionmailer/ actionpack/ actionwebservice/ activerecord/  
activesupport/ railties/  
% grep -r deprecated \*|grep -v svn|grep -v CHANGELOG  
(85 lines snipped)

marcel

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**Author:** ![finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@finn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/finn)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/list-of-rails-deprecations/49165/3 "2005-11-30T23:03:50Z")

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Marcel Molina Jr. wrote:

> (85 lines snipped)  
> Thanks, this pointed me in the right direction. Here’s what I found most  
> useful.

All mentions of deprecation in the various CHANGELOG files:

% grep -ir deprecat .|grep -v svn|grep CHANGELOG  
(18 lines)

All mentions of deprecation in the source code:

% grep -ir deprecat .|grep -v svn|grep -v CHANGELOG  
(125 lines)

I added the -i flag for case insensitivity, and shortened the string to  
search for to “deprecat” to find related words. I ran these on the  
latest revision pulled down from the svn repository at  
[dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk).

-F