v3.0.0

Version 3 includes several major optimizations and cleans up a lot of technical debt.

Replace ActiveAttr with faster native typecasting

• Remove dependency on ActiveAttr [#48, @brianstien]
• Drop support for Rails 3 mass assignment protection [#50, @brianstien]
• Add support for strong param enforcement for Rails 4+ [#50, @brianstien]
• Improve performance of many methods including respond_to? and new [#50, @brianstien]
• Refactor of attribute storage internals [#50, @brianstien]
• Remove a method was was doing dirty tracking twice [#52, @brianstien]
• Removed search callbacks [#55, @brianstien]
• Refactor of instantiate from rpc codepath [#56, @brianstien]
• Change to internals of typecasting so that attribute :name, :type => Integer won't affect performance [#56, @brianstien]

Extract bulk methods into a separate gem

• The bulk methods (i.e., create_all) have been extracted into a new gem: active_remote-bulk [#54, @brianstien]

Complete work on association writers

• Adds writer method for has_many associations [#51, @fergmasterflex]

Remove deprecated methods and unnecessary extensions

• Remove core exts [#49, @brianstien]
• Remove deprecated rpc methods .request, .request_type, #execute, #remote_call`. These methods are handled by the rpc adater now. [#49, @brianstien]
• Remove deprecated method ._active_remote_search_args [#49, @brianstien]
• Remove deprecated .parse_records method [#49, @brianstien]
• Remove publication, #publishable_hash method [#49, @brianstien]