New Features¶ ↑

• A response_content_type plugin has been added for more easily setting the content type of responses:

  When setting the content-type, you can pass either a string, which is used directly:

  response.content_type = "text/html"
  

  Or, if you have registered mime types when loading the plugin:

  plugin :response_content_type, mime_types: {
    plain: "text/plain",
    html: "text/html",
    pdf: "application/pdf"
  }
  

  You can use a symbol:

  response.content_type = :html
  

  If you would like to load all mime types supported by rack/mime, you can use the mime_types: :from_rack_mime option:

  plugin :response_content_type, mime_types: :from_rack_mime
  

  Note that you are unlikely to be using all of these mime types, so doing this will likely result in unnecessary memory usage. It is recommended to use a hash with only the mime types your application actually uses.

  To prevent silent failures, if you attempt to set the response type with a symbol, and the symbol is not recognized, a KeyError is raised.

• The typecast_params plugin now includes typecast_query_params and typecast_body_params methods in addition to typecast_params. typecast_query_params deals with query string parameters (r.GET), and typecast_body_params deals with request body parameters (r.POST).

Other Improvements¶ ↑

• The sessions plugin now raises Roda::RodaPlugins::Sessions::CookieTooLarge if the total cookie size is over 4K. Previously, it only raised the exception if the cookie value was over 4K. Browsers enforce the limit on the total cookie size, not just the value, so this change prevents Roda from setting a cookie that a browser would ignore due to size restrictions.