Rails

Sep 14, 2021

Rails 7 adds support for ActiveStorage expiring URLs

 Rails 7 adds the `expires_in` option in the ActiveStorage URL helper for generating expiring URLs.

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.

Sep 1, 2021

Rails 7 adds attributes_for_database to return attributes as they would be in the database

 Before this update, serializing an ActiveRecord object led to funny outcomes. Let's dive in!

Aug 31, 2021

Rails 7 allows anything that responds to `#to_str` into redirect_to

 Rails 7 adds support for redirecting using any arguments that respond_to `#to_str`.

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.

Aug 24, 2021

Rails 7 now consistently renders button_to

 Rails 7 introduced a config that helps button_to consistently render out to the button HTML tag.

Aug 18, 2021

Starting with Rails 7, retry failed jobs indefinitely

 Pass `:unlimited` symbol to `attempts` parameter of ActiveJob's `retry_on` method, which allows a developer to specify that a job should retry forever until it succeeds.

Aug 17, 2021

ActiveStorage now raises a PreviewError when previews fail to generate

 Before this update, a failed preview generation would result in a 0-byte file being created – leading to disastrous outcomes in the views.

Aug 10, 2021

Rails 7 moves ActiveRecord::Base.logger to a class_attribute leading to a 7x speed improvement

 Rails 7 utilized Ruby's cache for cvars to improve ActiveRecord::Base.logger performance 7x. Let's deep dive into this!

Aug 4, 2021

ActiveRecord::Calculations will now use column-based type casting

 Rails 7 now harmonizes results of ActiveRecord::Calculations.average by applying column-based typecasting. Now, floating-point number columns will be aggregated as Float.