Jan 8, 2021

Rails 6.1 adds support for role switching and sharding in database

 Rails 6.1 has added support for switching connections for one database instead of all databases

Nov 18, 2020

Rails 6.1 adds support for destroying dependent associations in the background

 Destroying multiple layered hierarchy of associated objects can be time consuming and might result in a server timeout error. With Rails adding support for dependent associations to be deleted in the background, this issue is addressed.

Nov 15, 2020

Rails 6.1 allows attribute's default to be configured but keeping its type

 With Rails 6.1, we can set attribute's default value by keeping the type same

Sep 30, 2020

Ruby 3.0 adds `Hash#except` and `ENV.except`

 Ruby 3.0 adds `Hash#except` to return a new hash that includes everything from the original hash except the given keys. `ENV` also gets support for `except`.

Sep 30, 2020

Rails deprecates `db:structure:load` and `db:structure:dump` tasks

 Running `db:structure:load` and `db:structure:dump` tasks will run `db:schema:{load/dump}` based on the value of `config.active_record.schema_format`, and they will be removed in Rails 6.2.

Sep 23, 2020

Rails allows a module with extend ActiveSupport::Concern to be prepended

 This blog post discusses the concept of prepending in Ruby and prepending concerns with the help of Active Support in Rails.

Sep 16, 2020

Ruby adds support for forwarding arguments to a method, along with the leading arguments

 ... operator was limited to forwarding arguments. With Ruby 3.0, it can forward the arguments along with the leading arguments.

Sep 16, 2020

Rails adds support for adding a default value to the rich text area

 Rails has added support for adding a default value to the form field of type rich text area.

Sep 9, 2020

Ruby adds `Symbol#name` to return frozen string corresponding to the symbol name

 Ruby has added `Symbol#name`, which returns the name of the symbol if it is named. The returned string can not be modified.

Sep 9, 2020

Changes to behavior in rails db:migrate:name command

 Rails has made changes to dump the schema(or structure) of the database when executing the command rails db:migrate:name. The command will also reset the `ActiveRecord::Base` connection after its execution.