The PostgreSQL client version in the devcontainer now points to the latest release of PostgreSQL, which is great because…
PostgreSQL 18 supports virtual (not persisted) columns, which can be added in Rails migrations with stored: false. For instance:
create_table :users do |t|
t.string :name
t.virtual :lower_name, type: :string, as: "LOWER(name)", stored: false
t.virtual :name_length, type: :integer, as: "LENGTH(name)"
end
Restores the original behavior so that calling Enumerable#sole on a tuple returns the full tuple (same as Enumerable#first).
When parallel tests are running and a worker process dies abruptly, the test suite would hang forever. This fix now tracks PIDs alongside worker IDs, allowing it to map dead processes back to their worker entries for cleanup.
Historically LINE SEPARATOR (U+2028) and PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (U+2029) were not valid inside JavaScript literal strings but that changed in ECMAScript 2019, so there is no need to escape them anymore.
Prevents a depreciation message about raise_on_open_redirects from being shown in newly generated applications.
Defining class_attribute on an instance’s singleton class and then accessing the attribute through the instance was raising a NameError.
Setup and configuration of databases for parallel testing now includes replicas. This fixes an issue where integration tests running in parallel would select the base test database instead of the numbered parallel worker database.
Redirects are used a lot and often defined in different locations for different purposes (authentication, authorization, fallbacks). A new config setting action_dispatch.verbose_redirect_logs is introduced to log the source location of all redirects.
Fixes an issue in Rails 8.1.0.beta1 where using select in a subquery with distinct would cause a SQL error.
Fixes a regression in Rails 8.0.2 where previously valid models could become invalid through autosave when a distantly related record was deleted via nested attributes.
Fixes an Active Record issue where trying to unset composite foreign key associations would raise an error.
You can view the whole list of changes here. We had 15 contributors to the Rails codebase this past week!
Until next time!