Rails

Mar 16, 2021

Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord methods `#sole` and `#find_sole_by`

 Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord methods `#sole` and `#find_sole_by` to uniquely match only one record in a database.

Mar 8, 2021

Rails 7 adds #excluding to ActiveRecord::Relation

 Rails 7 adds #excluding to ActiveRecord::Relation to exclude a record or collection of records.

Mar 1, 2021

Rails 6.1 adds config option to control image_tag loading attribute

 Rails 6.1 adds a config option to set a default value for the loading attribute of all image_tags. This is in line with the latest official HTML standard.

Feb 26, 2021

Rails 7 introduces new syntax for enum

 Rails 7 introduces new syntax for enum and few other changes

Feb 25, 2021

Rails 7 allows benchmark method to be called from anywhere

 Rails 7 allows benchmark method to be called from anywhere with Rails.benchmark("test") { ... }

Feb 15, 2021

Rails 7 adds query method associated to check for the association presence

 Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#associated query method to check for the associated record presence

Feb 5, 2021

Rails 6.1 adds support for validating numeric values fall in a range using `in:` option

 The `numericality` validation helper now accepts `in:` as an option for which the value must be a range.

Jan 25, 2021

Rails 6.1.1 allows `where` to reference associations via joined table alias names.

 Rails 6.1 allows where clause queries to reference associations used in `join` or `includes` clause via alias names.

Jan 18, 2021

Rails form_with now defaults to non-remote forms

 Rails form generation helper, "form_with" defaulted to remote forms previously. This would confuse beginners who would expect an HTML response to be rendered. Now, you can configure the default response type.

Jan 8, 2021

Rails 6.1 adds support for check constraints to database migrations

 With Rails adding support for check constraints to database migrations, check constraints can easily now be added and removed from tables with simple migration DSL. Earlier, the only way to add check constraints to tables was through raw SQL queries.