Apr 15, 2019

Rails 6 deprecates update_attributes and update_attributes!

 Rails 6 has deprecated update_attributes and update_attributes! in favor of update and update!

Apr 11, 2019

Rails 6 adds db:prepare rake task

 Rails 6 adds db:prepare rake task which creates the database, loads the schema, runs the migrations and initializes with the seed data

Mar 5, 2019

Rails 6 adds Array#including, Array#excluding, Enumerable#including, Enumerable#excluding

 Rails 6 adds Array#including, Array#excluding, Enumerable#including, Enumerable#excluding

Mar 5, 2019

Rails 6 adds Relation#reselect

 Rails 6 add a reselect method to Relation. This is a short-hand for "unscope(:select).select(fields)".

Mar 3, 2019

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally

 Ruby 2.7 has added Enumerable#tally. It helps to tally occurrences of elements in an Enumerable.

Mar 2, 2019

Rails 6 adds support for timezones to Active Job

 Rails 6 now supports preserving timezones to Active Job. It record what was the current timezone in effect when the job was enqueued and then restore when the job is executed in same way that the current locale is recorded and restored.

Mar 1, 2019

Rails 6 adds before? and after? methods to Date, DateTime, Time, and TimeWithZone.

 Rails 6 adds before? and after? methods to Date, DateTime, Time, and TimeWithZone. This allows to check if a date/time value is before or after another date/time in a more readable way.

Feb 26, 2019

Ruby 2.7 adds shorthand operator for Object#method

 Ruby 2.7 adds experimental shorthand operator for Object#method. Allows method object access using :, example File.:basename

Feb 26, 2019

Rails 6 adds negative scopes for all enum values

 Rails 6 adds negative scopes for all enum values

Feb 24, 2019

Rails 6 adds Enumerable#index_with

 Rails 6 adds Enumerable#index_with to allows creating a hash from an enumerable with the value from a passed block or a default argument.