Rails

Rails initializers you don't know about - Inflections

Rails comes with a lot of initializers. In this post, we will look at the inflections.rb initializer and how we can use it.

Rails preserves entry TTL when incrementing or decrementing an integer value.

Rails now preserve expires_in while incrementing or decrementing an integer value in MemoryStore to be more consistent with MemCachedStore and RedisCacheStore

Rails 7.1 db:prepare to load schema if the database already exists but is empty

Rails 7.1 introduces a new feature to allow db:prepare to load schema if the database already exists but is empty. Also, it will dump the schema after migrations are run.

Rails allow opting out of the SameSite cookie attribute when setting a cookie

Rails 7.1 introduces a new feature to allow opting out of the SameSite cookie attribute when setting a cookie.

Secure CSRF Token Storage in Rails 7 using Encrypted Cookies

Introduction of Rails 7 feature to store CSRF tokens outside of the session such as in encrypted cookies.

Simplifying DOM Element Generation in Rails with the Enhanced dom_id Method

Learn how the recent enhancement to the Rails `dom_id` method allows developers to generate both an ID and a class for an element in a single line of code

Rails adds Rails.env.local? to determine its current environment

Rails adds the ability to identify whether the current environment is the local development environment with the help of `Rails.env.local?`

Rails adds the ability to ignore tables in SQL schema dumps via regular expressions

Ignore tables by configuring regular expressions on ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.

Rails optimizes ActiveRecord batching for whole table iterations

Response times for batch queries have significantly improved by moving to a range-based iteration strategy.

Enumerable#many? now forwards all block parameters

When used in conjunction with each_with_index Enumerable#many? does not forward index parameter unlike Enumerable#any?.