(cherry picked from commit db6f2df9)

(cherry picked from commit 56b7ab88)

(cherry picked from commit 1e1f457f)

With this commit, reverting parameter migration. Instead of
this migration, added rake task to cast type and update value
to formatted value.

(cherry picked from commit c8ba2c05)

Global parameters are handled by the common_parameters controller, not
the parameters_controller.

(cherry picked from commit 5fb8dd2d)

Parameter has a relation to taxonomies due to Location and
Organization params.
However, we shouldn't set location_id or organization_id on parameters
even if only one taxonomy is present as they are not taxable.

(cherry picked from commit ea3442a2)

(cherry picked from commit 8166863b)

This is a stopgap to get tests running again, we should find a solution
that doesn't require manual update every time a new version of chromium
is released.

(cherry picked from commit a45b0d04)

(cherry picked from commit 9396c785)

(cherry picked from commit 7f113cb4)

(cherry picked from commit 1a155135)

If any default template somehow becomes invalid, new taxonomies cannot
be created.

(cherry picked from commit 43c561e8)

In case any non-default template is invalid, assigning it to the default
taxonomy will fail and block the seeding from continuing. This commit
catches such failures and prints a message informing the user what
to do to fix the issue.

(cherry picked from commit 6e822b4f)

(cherry picked from commit 3ded64ff)

(cherry picked from commit 16976e1e)

(cherry picked from commit 1245c202)

(cherry picked from commit 6e320262)

(cherry picked from commit 38962b7f)

(cherry picked from commit abe66b01)

(cherry picked from commit 0045bc46)

(cherry picked from commit 5dd2b1b1)

(cherry picked from commit b5130a6f)

(cherry picked from commit a50d8cff)

(cherry picked from commit 6bb54875)

The arity of Response.create funciton changed in 2.1, causing an old
workaround to allow working with bot 1.8 and 2.x to fail. Since we
require >2.0 now there is no more need for the check for older versions.

(cherry picked from commit 42cf34e6)

(cherry picked from commit ec34c496)

(cherry picked from commit 1809d8ad)

(cherry picked from commit 3c87d1a4)

(cherry picked from commit 040d58ff)