Articles by Keshav Biswa

Sep 1, 2022

Rails "ActionController::Parameters.to_h" can now receive a block

 ActionController::Parameters.to_h will now receive a block just like Hash#to_h and achieve parity. This gives the ability to customize the way parameters are passed to the controller.

Aug 16, 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Gemfile and Gemfile.lock

 In-depth overview of what a Gemfile is and how a Gemfile works.

Jun 28, 2022

Rails adds --js alias to --javascript

 Rails now provides support to choose a javascript approach using --js alias

Jun 8, 2022

Rails now provides pattern matching support for ActiveModel

 Rails now provides pattern matching support for ActiveModel (and transitively ActiveRecord)

Sep 7, 2021

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#structurally_compatible?

 Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#structurally_compatible? to provide an easy way to check if two relations are structurally compatible before running `or` or `and` query on it.

Aug 25, 2021

Rails 7 optimizes remove_columns to use a single SQL statement when supported

 Rails 7 remove_columns will now trigger a single SQL statement to remove all columns if the database supports it, instead of querying multiple SQL statements for removing individual columns.

Jul 20, 2021

Rails 7 allows loading nested locales in the engine

 Rails 7 allows loading nested locales inside the `/locales` directory by default for better organization in larger apps.

Jun 29, 2021

Rails 7 generators will raise errors if an attribute type is invalid

 Rails 7 generators will validate the type by checking if it is of a default migration type and will raise an error if it is invalid.

Jun 15, 2021

Ruby 3.1 adds Enumerable#compact and Enumerator::Lazy#compact

 Ruby 3.1 adds Enumerable#compact and Enumerator::Lazy#compact to return a copy of `self` with all `nil` elements removed.

Mar 17, 2021

Rails 7 adds maximum and minimum methods to Enumerable

 Rails 7 adds `Enumerable#maximum` and `Enumerable#minimum` to calculate the maximum or minimum from extracted elements of an enumerable.