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deep_munge, I hardly knew ye.

Rails 4.1.8 has a method called deep_munge which is intended to massage params to convert empty arrays into nils in response to security issues like http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2660.

This can be tricky when sending in a json string as post data that may have some values that should be empty arrays. Those empty arrays will get converted to nil.

To get around that rails 4.1.8 added a configuration option

config.action_dispatch.perform_deep_munge = false

Rails 5.0 intends to not have the same sql injection vulnerabilities and so have removed the deep_munge method that would change an empty array value to nil but have left in the configuration option which produces behavior best described by looking at the tests.

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