Hi, it’s zzak. ✈ RailsConf has come to a close, and Golden Week is upon us here in Japan. Lots to catch up on in This Week in Rails. Many documentation improvements to extend our SEO posture The venerable @p8 has been very busy trying to improve Rails documentation fortune with search engines. On the topic of documentation, the Postgre...

Hi. Wojtek here. We had 88 contributors this week including ChatGPT! Let’s explore the changes. AppSignal is the newest contributing member of The Rails Foundation It’s the third company to join The Rails Foundation as a contributing member. Introduce adapter for Trilogy Trilogy is a client library for MySQL-compatible database servers...

Saluton! That's Esperanto for "Hello!" 😜... Emmanuel Hayford here, let's see what's new in Rails as we gear up for Composite Primary Keys (CPKs) support. But first, here's a fine opportunity for junior Ruby on Rails developers: As part of preparations for the upcoming Rails World conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands this year, The Rail...

Hi, it’s Greg, bringing you the latest news about Ruby on Rails. We have exciting news from the Rails Foundation! The first-ever Rails World Conference is coming! Join the community on October 5 & 6 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for keynotes, technical sessions, and all things Rails. A website with tickets and a CFP is coming soon! You ca...

Hi, it’s zzak, writing in from Aomori, Japan, home of the great Jonan Scheffler. 2023 is officially 25% over, time to enjoy 🌸 and explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add debug gem back to the Gemfile template With the release of Ruby v3.2.2, which happened today, we can safely add the “debug” gem back to the Gemfile temp...

Hi, it’s Wojtek with this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Allow specifying WHERE clauses with column-tuple syntax. Querying through Active Record where now accepts a tuple syntax which accepts, as a key, an array of columns and, as a value, an array of corresponding tuples. This improves support for composite primary keys. Accept...

Kaixo! Long time no see. Emmanuel Hayford here. This week, a lot happened in Rails, so much so that to keep this edition short, I've had to cut some equally good pull requests out. Here's what I have for you today: Allow querying by the whole record for composite query constraints Suppose you have defined an association between two mod...

Hi, this is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in the Rails codebase. Lockdown rails app in production for security Current Dockerfile generated by Rails runs as a non-root user which prevents modification of the operating system but leaves wide open all gems and the application itself. This change locks down the application gems an...

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Turbo v7.3.0 is out! Be sure to check the release notes to see what changed. Configurable digest algorithm for Active Record Encryption This adds a new option to configure the digest algorithm in Active Record Encryption. It sets SHA-256 as the new default starting...

Hi, it’s Wojtek. Let’s dig into this week’s changes and announcements. Amanda Perino as new executive director for The Rails Foundation Please welcome Amanda to the job of leading the mission to improve the documentation, education, marketing, and events in the Rails ecosystem. Add ActiveJob.perform_all_later to enqueue multiple jobs a...

Hi, this is Greg, bringing you this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Support preloading associations with composite keys This pull request adds support for Associations::Preloader to be able to preload associations associated by a composite foreign key (query_constraints) and by implication adds support for includes() relations. S...

Përshëndetje! Emmanuel here with the usual stuff. filtered_path in ActionController::Instrumentation event payloads over fullpath For security reasons, some data need to be filtered before it reaches bad actors. Rails now filters parameters in paths that may include sensitive information in logs. Instead of passing fullpath to ActionCo...

Hi, it’s zzak, happy 節分! I’m very excited for spring, this winter has been tough! Let’s get into this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Use infinitive form for all task descriptions verbs All the common rails commands and some extended commands use the infinitive form for the verb in the description: “Generate …”, “Start …”, “Run …...

Hi, it's Wojtek. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. Rails 7.0.4.2 and 6.1.7.2 have been released Released 7.0.4.2 and 6.1.7.2 versions addressing a compatibility issue with the 7.0.4.1 and 6.1.7.1 security releases from last week. Allow use of SSL-terminating reserve proxy that doesn't set headers Add ActionDispat...

Hola, this is Greg, bringing you the latest changes from Rails. Raise exception when if a restricted attribute name is used with CurrentAttributes Attribute names like set and reset should not be used with ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes, because they clash with its public API. With this change, an ArgumentError is raised when a restr...

Halløj. It's me again, bringing you the usual goodies from Rails. Show relevant commands when calling help This pull request improves the user experience by displaying the appropriate commands for the context in which the user is running rails -h or rails. When outside of a Rails application, the output will be the options for the rail...

Long time no see! 新年明けましておめでとうございます！Zzak here to bring you the first This Week in Rails of.. *almost writes 2022*. 🤣 Spotlight I want to try something different, there has been one particular person that I feel deserves a Shout Out: Akira Matsuda. He has contributed 40 commits since the last episode..! His focus has been on incremental...

Hey! This is Emmanuel, Greg and Wojciech, bringing you the summary of what happened with Rails in the past year. It was a busy year with 3131 commits from 491 contributors and 31 releases! We carefully selected the most significant pull requests for inclusion, but it is possible that we may have overlooked some due to the need to keep ...

Hi there, this is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in Rails! Only include all_queries default scopes on reload This pull request changes the current behaviour on reload, which applies all the default scopes, if any are marked as all_queries: true. The correct behaviour is to only apply all_queries: true default scopes on reload. A...

नमस्ते, This is Emmanuel Hayford with some updates from Rails! Hide changes to before_committed! behaviour behind config This PR introduces a new configuration option that will enable before_committed! callbacks on all enrolled records in a transaction by default in Rails 7.1. Previously, callbacks were only run on the first copy of a ...

Hi, this is Greg, bringing you the latest news about Rails. Replace method_source gem with Ripper With this change, Ripper is used to determine the last line number of a given test method to support running tests by line number. Disable Rails console IRB's autocompletion in production by default Autocompletion increases data transmissi...

Hi, Wojtek here with this week's news from the Rails world. The Rails Foundation is hiring an Executive Director The Rails Foundation is looking for a full-time executive director to run day-to-day operations, and implement the Rails Core Team's mission to improve the documentation, education, marketing, and events in the Rails ecosyst...

Hi there, This is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in Rails. Make sure that concurrent map usage is thread-safe This pull request changes the way a cache miss is handled. It makes it thread-safe and ensures that it's not overwritten in the middle of execution. Autoload ActiveModel::ValidationError This pull request adds the missin...

Boa noite! This is Emmanuel, bearer of good tidings. Introducing: The Rails Foundation In case you missed it, with eight founding members, Rails has started The Rails Foundation! Together, the founding members have contributed a total sum of $1,000,000 that will aid the foundation's mission to improve the documentation, education, mark...

Hi there, This is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in Rails. Fix Enumerable#many? to handle all block parameters Before this fix, Enumerable#many? didn't forward the block parameters to the block, so if someone called it in a chain with each_with_index, the index wasn't passed to the block. Use filename when printing pending migra...

Hi, Petrik here with this week's news from the Rails world. Improve the "missing template" error page This error page got a nice overhaul with clearer wording, making it more helpful, especially for beginners. Allow specifying columns to use in ActiveRecord::Base object queries Support for composite primary keys in Rails is getting pri...

Hi, Wojtek here with this week's news from the Rails world. Support checked as a keyword argument in check_box_tag and radio_button_tag Now the form helper f.check_box "admin", checked: falseworks as expected. Previously it had to be passed as positional argument. Allow Active Record adapter "execute" to retry on connection-related exc...

Guten Tag! Emmanuel here again, with some updates from Rails. Don't trigger after_commit :destroy callback again on destroy if record previously was destroyed The after_commit :destroy callback would always run even if a record was destroyed previously. This PR fixes that. Essentially, we don't want to call after_commit :destroy on unp...

Hey, this is Greg bringing you the latest news from the Rails world. Add column information to exceptions inside ERB templates This PR adds column information to exceptions that occured inside ERB templates. There are before and after screenshots of the Rails error page, and a great explanation of the change in the PR description. Vali...

Hi, this is Petrik with this weeks updates in the Rails world. Support more Permissions-Policy directives With the Permissions-Policy header you can allow or block the use of browser features. This pull request adds support for directives for the following features: hid, idle-detection, screen-wake-lock, serial, sync-xhr and web-share....