Sep 14, 2021

• authorImg Deepak Mahakale
authorImg Deepak Mahakale

Deepak is an Engineering Manager at Saeloun.

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 9, 2021

• authorImg Chetan Gawai
authorImg Chetan Gawai

I am a Javascript and React enthusiast, and I absolutely love writing technical blogs. There's just something about the process of breaking down complex concepts and sharing my knowledge with others that really excites me. In my free time, I enjoy exploring my other passions, such as painting, gardening, cooking, and managing my food blog.

Keep the React app responsive even during large screen updates with startTransition API introduced in React 18

 The newly introduced startTransition API helps to improve the user interactions by categorizing the state updates as urgent and non-urgent.

Sep 7, 2021

• authorImg Keshav Biswa
authorImg Keshav Biswa

Keshav is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

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

• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

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

• authorImg Rohit Joshi
authorImg Rohit Joshi

I am a Ruby on Rails developer with over two years of experience, most of which is working remotely. I am a typical Punekar and in my free time I play badminton, workout, go trekking and I like to interact with people. Feel free to slide into my DMs and say Hi! 😄

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 26, 2021

• authorImg Apoorv Tiwari
authorImg Apoorv Tiwari

Apoorv is a Ruby on Rails and React Developer.

ECMAScript 2021 introduces replaceAll method and numeric separators

 ECMAScript 2021 introduces the replaceAll() method to replace all occurrences of a substring in a string with another string and numeric separators to allow a separator character between digits.

Aug 25, 2021

• authorImg Keshav Biswa
authorImg Keshav Biswa

Keshav is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

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

• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

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

• authorImg Alkesh Ghorpade
authorImg Alkesh Ghorpade

I am a seasoned developer with over 9 years of experience in Ruby on Rails and Golang. My passion lies in tackling complex data structures and algorithm problems, always pushing myself to learn and grow. In my downtime, I find solace in the pages of books and the soothing sounds of a guitar. But I'm not just a one-trick pony! I love to stay active and challenge myself in other ways too. Whether it's on the football pitch, cricket field, table tennis table, or badminton court, I'm always up for some fun activities.

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

• authorImg Swaathi Kakarla
authorImg Swaathi Kakarla

Swaathi Kakarla is a Ruby on Rails Developer.

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.