Cucumber 3.2.0 (2018) only limped along on Ruby 4.0 and crashed loading
profiles via the removed ERB.new positional API. Upgrade to Cucumber 11.

The unmaintained yard-cucumber plugin was the hard blocker: it pins
cucumber < 4. Drop it (and its `--plugin cucumber` in .yardopts); a proper
docs site is the Phase 3 plan anyway. guard-cucumber 3.0.0 has no upper
bound on cucumber and is unaffected.

No step-definition or World/hook changes were required -- the suite only
uses `World do` and `Before do`, both unchanged. Silence the report-
publishing banner in CI via CUCUMBER_PUBLISH_QUIET.

Green on Rails 7.2/8.0/8.1 under Ruby 4.0: RSpec 21/0, Cucumber 33/33.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…flow

Coverage: replace the unmaintained coveralls gem with plain SimpleCov.
Remove the dead Travis-only coverage-upload path (report_coverage /
running_in_travis?) from the default Rake task; CI already runs the matrix
directly. Drop the coveralls badge.

Railtie: use config.enable_reloading instead of the deprecated
config.cache_classes, and drop the pre-7.x ActionDispatch::Reloader
fallback now that the floor is Rails 7.2.

Add frozen_string_literal magic comment to all of lib/ (56 files). No
in-place string mutations existed, and the suite stays green.

Add a Release workflow that publishes the gem on version tags via RubyGems
Trusted Publishing (OIDC, no stored API key). Requires a one-time
trusted-publisher registration on rubygems.org before the first release.

Re-validated green on Rails 7.2/8.0/8.1 under Ruby 4.0: RSpec 21/0,
Cucumber 33/33 each.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Validated eaco inside a freshly generated Rails 8.1 app (minimal app,
gem via path:). Two real-world bugs surfaced and are fixed here:

* The Railtie called Eaco.parse_default_rules_file! directly in its
  initializer. On Rails 7+ (Zeitwerk-only) application constants cannot
  be autoloaded during boot, so any config/authorization.rb referencing
  a model raised NameError and the app could not start. Rules are now
  parsed from app.config.to_prepare, which runs once after boot and
  again on each code reload in development — replacing both the direct
  call and the enable_reloading branch.

* Adapters::ActiveRecord.included guarded schema validation with
  table_exists?, but on modern Rails that raises
  ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError when the database is missing, breaking
  the very rails db:create that would create it. The check is now
  skipped when the database is unreachable.

Smoke test (grant/revoke, can?, accessible_by, admin bypass, jsonb
persistence, controller integration) passes 11/11 in both lazy and
eager-load boot; RSpec 21/0 and Cucumber 33/33 re-validated on Rails
7.2 / 8.0 / 8.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Phase 1: Rails 7.2–8.1 & Ruby 3.2–4.0 modernization

The eaco name on rubygems.org belongs to ifad, whose last release was
1.1.1 in 2017. This fork is now the maintained home, republished as
eaco-abac. The require path, Eaco namespace and DSL are unchanged:
gem "eaco-abac", require: "eaco".

- gemspec renamed to eaco-abac.gemspec; name, homepage, metadata and
  authorship updated; description notes the continuation lineage
- README: badges point at this repo and the eaco-abac gem; lineage
  note crediting ifad; supported-versions line; install section shows
  the require: override and the required jsonb acl migration; usage
  documents the ::Model top-level-constant requirement in
  config/authorization.rb (Zeitwerk); before_filter -> before_action
  in the controller example (removed in Rails 5.1); rubydoc links and
  dev-setup instructions modernized
- tracker: repo-home/name decision recorded as resolved

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ending outreach

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>