Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails World 2025 - Save the date Rails World 2025 will take place September 4 and 5, 2025, again in Amsterdam. The same venue, the same city, and good news - more tickets. The CFP is expected to open in early spring 2025, and tickets to be released shortly thereaft...

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add Active Support Notifications test helper module This PR has been created because it’s currently cumbersome to test that a certain code block/action triggers an ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event to be emitted. It would be ideal to have some helpers to assert a...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in! Rails 8: The Demo In case you missed it, Rails 8 was released last week. A new demo from DHH is now up Rails 8: The Demo showcasing its usage. The video covers getting started with Rails 8 by building a basic blog, adding a WYSIWYG edi...

Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore this week’s Rails news. Rails 8 has been released Along with the announcement, you can read the release changelog. Action Controller guide improvements review Along with the improvements, there will be the new guide “Action Controller Advanced Topics”. It’s awaiting community feedback. Support disabling t...

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Cast query_cache value when using URL configuration for Active Record When configuring the Active Record connection with DATABASE_URL, due to not casting the value to an integer, the query cache was not set to the given value. This pull request fixes this issue. De...

Hi, it's zzak. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. Deprecate setting the behavior of deferring job queueing until after commit The active_job.enqueue_after_transaction_commit setting has been deprecated. This behavior is not intended to be changed globally, but on a per-job basis. Add support for using Kamal inside...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in! Rails World talks are out! Check out the recap of these talks in this blog post, or head over to Rails’ YouTube for the full playlist. New Rails maintenance policy and end of maintenance announcements These changes are designed to prov...

Hi, Wojtek here still feeling the good vibe of the Rails World. Cheers to all the attendees and see you in Amsterdam! Fireside Chat with DHH, Matz and Tobi The video from the Rails World is now ready to watch, followed by the Eileen keynote. All the videos will be available soon! Don’t execute i18n watcher on boot It shouldn’t catch an...

Hi, it’s Greg, bringing to you the latest changes from Rails, while recovering from an amazing Rails World experience. Make ActionController::AllowBrowser::BrowserBlocker private To reduce the API surface area of the allow_browser feature, this commit marks the class as private API. Change ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess#strin...

Hi, it's zzak. Let's jump into This Week in Rails! Rails 8.0 beta 1 has been released! The first beta of Rails 8 is out! While the release notes are getting ready, have a look at the changes and give it a go. DHH keynote from Rails World The first talk recording from Rails World is up, and David goes over everything that went into Rail...

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails World 2024 is next week Safe travels to everyone heading to Toronto! All sessions will be recorded and published on the Rails YouTube channel, so subscribe to get notified. [RF Guides] Active Record Validations The Foundation is still hard at work on updating...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday the 13 🎃 Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails, from the very awesome EuRuKo this week! Let’s dive in. New Guides Pull Request for review Two new Guides Pull Requests are up for community review this week. If you are well versed in Action Mailer, or Error Reporting, please review and submi...

Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add Solid Cache Solid Cache will be the new default caching backend for production deployments out of the box in Rails 8. Add Solid Queue Configure Solid Queue as the default Active Job backend alongside Solid Cache. Both can be skipped with "--skip-solid". Allow...

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Last call for Rails Luminary nominations If you know someone who has contributed to the Rails ecosystem and community with exceptional code, documentation, enthusiasm, or assistance, submit your nomination by September 2nd. Fix Devcontainer generator with –dev opti...

Hi, it's zzak. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. In case you missed it, Rails 7.2.1 and 7.1.4 were released this week! Allow use of alternative database interfaces Prior to this PR, rails dbconsole was hardcoded to use the default interface for the given database. This command can now be configured via the config...

Hi, Wojtek from this side. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Defer route drawing This change triggers the initial reload of routes either through middleware or when a url_helpers method is used. Previously, this was executed unconditionally on boot, which could slow down boot time unnecessarily for larger apps wi...

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails (from last week 😅). Let’s dive in. Rails 7.2 has been released Rails 7.2 has been released! Head over to the release post for more details, but in short, it ships with better production defaults, Dev containers, new Guides design, and much much more! ...

Hi, it is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in Rails. The framework turned 20 years old this past week. Happy Birthday Ruby on Rails! Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Nominations open for the 2024 Rails Luminary Awards Last year the Rails Foundation started the Rails Luminary Awards acknowledging people who’...

Hi, it’s zzak. This is a short week, but let’s jump in. Drop Hash#except core extension Rails 8.0 will be Ruby 3.1 or greater only except natively got added in Ruby 3.0 so this is dead code now. Introduce ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment#attribute_writer_missing Provide instances with an opportunity to gracefully handle assigning to an...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Add a basic sessions generator This change adds a new sessions generator to give a basic start to an authentication system using database-tracked sessions. # Generate with... bin/rails generate session# Generated files app/models/curre...

Hi, Wojtek here again. See another short list of changes from this past week. Rails 7.2.0.beta3 have been released With 91 commits since the last beta 2 version. Make http_cache_forever use immutable option The immutable: true option was added to expires_in in last week. This change sets immutable: true option for http_cache_forever wh...

Hi, Wojtek here. See the short list of changes from this past week. Add compressor option to Active Record encryption ActiveRecord::Encryption::Encryptor now supports a :compressor option to customize the compression algorithm used. The default compressor is Zlib (as it was before). Utilize Rack 3 streaming Rack 3 introduced several fe...

Hi, it's zzak. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. Support "immutable" directive in Cache-Control This PR adds a new option to the expires_in method to support the immutable directive for the "Cache-Control" header. Also pass "local_assigns" to strict locals templates When using Strict Locals in a partial, `local_a...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Improved Active Record Migration Documentation The Rails Foundation documentation team continues to improve different areas of the Guides. This Pull Request updates the Active Record Migration Documentation to receive various additions...

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Only sanitize content attribute when present in attachments A recent security fix introduced sanitizing the content attribute of ActionText::Attachable::ContentAttachment. As a side effect it always sets the attribute, even when it’s missing, causing Trix to not sh...

Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails security releases Rails Versions 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.4, 7.1.3.4, and 7.2.0.beta2 have been released with a security issue fix. The CFP for RubyConf is open Submissions on all Ruby Web Frameworks, including Rails, will be considered, so get your Rails related sub...

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails World 2024 speaker lineup announced! As well as another small run of tickets going live on June 4 at 2pm ET! The Rails Foundation documentation team has also submitted two Rails guides for community review. If you have feedback, please submit it here: Action ...

Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Raise a descriptive error when a Store column is misconfigured This pull request improves ActiveRecord::Store to raise a descriptive exception if the column is not either structured (e.g., PostgreSQL hstore/json, or MySQL json) or declared serializable via ActiveRe...

Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Development of Rails 8.0 starts now 🎉 This week marks the official start of Rails 8.0 development. Stay tuned for more updates on Rails 8.0 features and changes ahead 🎉. Rails 8 will target Ruby 3.3+ only for new apps Add Kamal by defa...

Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails. The bi-annual Rails community survey is live! Your input is invaluable and will help the team at Planet Argon gather insight on the current state of the Rails community. Fill in the survey here. (And feel free to share with your teams). The survey will remain open until A...