Hello, this is Andrew, bringing you the latest news from the Ruby on Rails world!

18 contributors to Rails in past week

There have been 18 contributors to Rails in the second full week of 2020! 

Rack 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 released

These releases add support for the SameSite=None cookie value, new HTTP status codes, bug fixes, and several other exciting changes and additions. Updates to Rails following the release have also begun.

Check out the Rack changelog to learn more.

Introduce Active Support Disallowed Deprecations

This addition allows the configuration of rules to match deprecation warnings that should not be allowed and ActiveSupport::Deprecation#disallowed_behavior, which specifies the behavior to be used when a disallowed deprecation warning is matched.

Stop individual Action Cable streams

Channels with multiple subscriptions can now stop following individual streams. Before this change, the only option was to stop all streams.

Remove an empty line from generated migration

This fix prevents an extra newline from getting added in generated migrations.

That’s it for this week, till next time! 

Hello, this is Greg, bringing you the latest news from the Ruby on Rails world!

38 contributors to Rails in past week

There have been 38 contributors to Rails in the first week of the year! 

Deprecate “primary” as a connection_specification_name for ActiveRecord::Base

This PR deprecates the use of the name “primary” as the connection_specification_name for ActiveRecord::Base in favor of using “ActiveRecord::Base” to avoid confusion as earlier the classname was used in any other case.

Deprecate using Range#include? to check the inclusion of a value in a date time range

The usage of the Range#include? method to check the inclusion of an argument in date-time with zone range is deprecated in Ruby and since Rails extends it, the deprecation needs to be carried forward. As a replacement, it is recommended to use Range#cover?

Restore previous behavior of parallel test databases

Before this bugfix, if an app called establish_connection with no arguments or doesn’t call connects_to in ApplicationRecord and uses parallel testing databases, the application could’ve picked up the wrong configuration.

Reduce number of created objects in Hash#as_json

The improvement is highly coupled to the size of the hash but can be quite a bit for medium sized nested hashes.

That’s it for this week, till next time! 

Hello, this is Prathamesh bringing you first issue of This week in Rails of the new year and new decade.
In this issue, we will go over the major changes that happened last year to the Rails codebase.

Happy new year!

494 contributors to Rails in 2019

There have been 494 contributors to Rails in 2019. Wow, that’s a staggering number! Thank you all for making Rails better.

Rails 6.0 released

Rails 6 includes headline features such as parallel testing, multi database support, new Zeitwerk autoloader along with new frameworks added to the Rails family.

Two new frameworks added to Rails

Action Mailbox and Action Text made their way to the Rails codebase during the Rails 6 release. Action Mailbox will help you accept the incoming emails and Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails.

Other releases

Apart from Rails 6, 2019 also saw release of Rails 5.2.4 series and 5.1.7.

The party is still rocking in 2020. 18 people contributed to Rails in new year so far! Check out the detailed list of all changes.

Happy new year again!

Hello, this is Wojtek reporting on last month additions to Rails codebase.

Ruby 2.7.0 released

The last minor version of Ruby 2.7 before 3.0 release in the next year. Rails codebase is constantly updated to support Ruby 2.7 without any warnings.

Rails 6.0.2 released

Followed by security fix releases 5.2.4.1 and 6.0.2.1

Track Active Storage variants in the database

Optimization and bug fix by avoiding existence checks in the storage service.

Conditional values in Tag Builder

Handy addition to clean up common use case with constructing class names when creating content tags.

Add class_names view helper

As a follow-up to conditional values in Tag Builder, to ease even more constructing class names on views.

Deep merge of shared configuration in config_for method

From now on config_for will deeply merge shared configuration section with environment specific one.

76 people contributed to Rails since last time. Check out the detailed list of all changes.
Happy new year!

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.4.1 has been released. This is a complementary release to rack in order to address CVE-2019-16782.

CHANGES since 5.2.4

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Cable CHANGELOG
• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Storage CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub:

5.2.4.1 CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-256

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-256 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 5.2.4.1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.2.4.1.gem
95531ad4731ff341e0df4bff722bc28cf534ca9ed9e00d8a4949474225abe5fb  actioncable-5.2.4.1.gem
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5f9cfff904e6d8ed5bd9439a76639e22393308a295c13d663a4622e085a9b738  actionpack-5.2.4.1.gem
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ee841d3c038cc45f393bc384be8afc8f4629587411f3eb6b396821b4429aa835  activestorage-5.2.4.1.gem
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As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 6.0.2.1 has been released. This is a complementary release to rack in order to address CVE-2019-16782.

CHANGES since 6.0.2

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Cable CHANGELOG
• Action Mailbox CHANGELOG
• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action Text CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Storage CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub:

6.0.2.1 CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-256

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-256 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 6.0.2.1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-6.0.2.1.gem
3eedea1285b08d40762a14a122dc5a9c1d6226526f8380dc4ac0d0f4ef086dbe  actioncable-6.0.2.1.gem
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7857e4f1242ca2064d0b24154fb1d2d05537e24ec78b31ccd51eab7549459c09  actiontext-6.0.2.1.gem
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817e19e0ce4bc8c6afc63ed064ea84d0e3c8a2ee3d8fb1bb86ab39670c7ca6b5  activesupport-6.0.2.1.gem
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8f6b9622975fc0f4807770b0633c9998c54ff59a98045a78f6fab110d87bcd66  railties-6.0.2.1.gem

As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 6.0.2 has been released.

CHANGES since 6.0.1

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Cable CHANGELOG
• Action Mailbox CHANGELOG
• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action Text CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Storage CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub:

6.0.2 CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-256

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-256 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 6.0.2:

$ shasum -a 256 *-6.0.2.gem
f26e7cb2f47745881de3a88866dae9d40f28f0b3a810ebf3eb84f394cbedcf36  actioncable-6.0.2.gem
5f6801d013d9b4ba4acc85560c16710c37b6954e9e0e6bc315c81b8098649787  actionmailbox-6.0.2.gem
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f11a99a25869c6f3180dc1bd483d0a6d8e5e0cdf3f170af51fe7d76c3b250e2e  activejob-6.0.2.gem
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ba4d646de7916bd06ebd2af906bec7d0a3e656ddd21b8edb71984e26b3875263  activestorage-6.0.2.gem
ff7f8b1f6054e604a0e7a35fa3636555cddebf1867c9e51b866271556fb934af  activesupport-6.0.2.gem
b5223754088b3adfca6608a1901fbd7813b4b994af4ec514accd0b3b5ce05d0b  rails-6.0.2.gem
8a7105ed97b5605c2443dea3c6f2b9c87bcbe01aed6cc7abe982bccdd7e1ff52  railties-6.0.2.gem

As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 6.0.2.rc2 has been released.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Friday, December 12, 2019. If you find one, please open an issue on GitHub and mention me (@rafaelfranca) on it, so that we can fix it before the final release.

CHANGES since 6.0.1

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Cable CHANGELOG
• Action Mailbox CHANGELOG
• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action Text CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Storage CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub:

6.0.2.rc2 CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-256

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-256 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 6.0.2.rc2:

$ shasum -a 256 *-6.0.2.rc2.gem
201051352bd868c379fc76d59b847766ea0af4b168af808ba1e0269d6b939583  actioncable-6.0.2.rc2.gem
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As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hey readers! This is Kasper bringing you the latest news in Rails. I’m writing from deep winter-like Copenhagen, starting on the last month of the decade.

Speaking of progress, Rails recently crossed 75.000 commits on GitHub. Last time we marked commit progress was over 4 years ago for 50.000. I happened to write that issue too, you can read it here.

Rails 6.0.2.rc1 released

As always, this release is loaded with fixes and improvements. It’s currently set to ship Monday Dec 2 and so far no regressions have been found as far as I know. Final day to test the release candidate on your app, try it out ✌️

Rails 5.2.4 released

The final bug fix release of Rails 5.2, now it’ll only get security releases from here on out. Good time to plan a Rails 6 upgrade.

Something different this issue…

For the most part we highlight particular interesting commits in this newsletter, but there’s usually other stuff we don’t get to. Stuff that could help you make sense of Rails itself. This week I’d like to try to remedy that.

Here’s all changes since last time. Visit the link and each time you see “Merge pull request #12345”, click ‘em. Feel free to see Files Changes and on particularly interesting files, you can try “View File” and read some surrounding code. This can be overwhelming so go easy. But that’s pretty much a fine way to start reading Rails’ actual code. It’s all Ruby all the way down.

Now, some of the people in the list are on certain Rails teams. You’ll likely interact with some of them if you submit a pull request. Here’s who’s in the current change list, but not the full teams.

carlosantoniodasilva, eileencodes, georgeclaghorn, kaspth (that’s me), rafaelfranca are on Rails Core. gmcgibbon, jhawthorn, kamipo and y-yagi have commit access. Meanwhile eugeneius and vipulnsward are on the issues team, so they can triage issues and merge documentation PRs.

That’s it for now, hope it’s useful 🙌

Also 41 people contributed since last time including several first time contributors.

Hope you dig it. See ya next time! 👋🏻

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.4 has been released.

CHANGES since 5.2.3

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Cable CHANGELOG
• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Storage CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub:

5.2.4 CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-256

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-256 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 5.2.4:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.2.4.gem
0ba74e3b94e4712f3d754125e494f45e5240af8f4c8c8f0f167dff3b0e0a3a96  actioncable-5.2.4.gem
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0ccecdc86c8c98adf5a16e2a5bf55379a16e845db94bc12899f052d25ad48d91  actionpack-5.2.4.gem
19b1a9c0a26bb8d0c1cfec353784e518a61dd7e218a29f5e309c4c7d7bc5beac  actionview-5.2.4.gem
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f87e407f1fc3b04c3ee680278a5af5c2b3263d2d87f8e96d555249c7bbe3f479  activemodel-5.2.4.gem
cd6eca48d5cb6859c5e09dea5ec11677791af26218c269cef8936bc0b4923a18  activerecord-5.2.4.gem
1fae89ac78f965f590d6867b3bc1546fb662b5fde780f38789ac3ad61ed8e40c  activestorage-5.2.4.gem
b826f53ae52f1250edf56d254a839ca5df7c0a9d8e8c9334629d6bbd0eb61bce  activesupport-5.2.4.gem
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5c3a7788700b99c75be9041cab79d92a89d8c76173b232753d7ea7e6e43233ee  railties-5.2.4.gem

As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.