Hello, zzak here! Congrats on making it through another month and another week of Rails development.

Add favicon to internal routes “/favicon.ico”

They finally fixed that pesky No route matches [GET] "/favicon.ico" error on the default Rails welcome page.

Introduce Journey::Ast to avoid extra ast walks

This PR started its journey almost exactly a year ago…!

Improve help for Rake tasks

Rails help command now includes the Rake task description which is much more helpful. Give it a try: bin/rails db:migrate -h!

Help identifying why we have an InvalidAuthenticityToken exception

Unverified CSRF requests now display a helpful error message in the ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken exception.

“Middleware#remove” is renamed “Middleware#delete!”

Recently “Middleware#remove” was added to mirror the behavior of “Middleware#delete” but raise an exception if the middleware isn’t found. This name makes more sense as “#delete!”.

Add support for defining default values as option for ActiveSupport::Configurable accessors

This PR adds the ability to specify a default value when using “config_accessor”.

Permit attachments in inbound email conductor mail params

This PR fixes an issue in actionmailbox when testing inbound email with attachments.

29 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi, Wojtek here presenting quite a lot of changes from the past week.

Disable schema dump per database

Dumping the schema is on by default for all databases in an application. To turn it off for a specific database one can now set schema_dump: false in the database config file.

Add change tracking methods for belongs_to associations

Two new methods were added: association_changed? and association_previously_changed? (assuming an association named :association) to Active Record.

Raise error on unpermitted open redirects

Add allow_other_host options to redirect_to. One can opt in to this behaviour with ActionController::Base.raise_on_open_redirects = true.

Update Capybara drivers

Deprecate poltergeist and webkit (capybara-webkit) driver registration for system testing (they will be removed in Rails 7.1) and add cuprite instead.

Fix dirty check for Float::NaN and BigDecimal::NaN

Float::NaN and BigDecimal::NaN in Ruby are special values and can’t be compared with == method.

Make ActiveModel::Errors#inspect slimmer for readability

It will now only output the errors inspection omitting the base object.

Add Middleware#remove

It will raise an error if the middleware is not found.

24 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi, this is Greg, bring you the latest news of the Rails world. It’s been a quiet week, so we don’t have much changes to cover this time.

Fix try and try! performance slowdown in Ruby 2.7+

This PR fixes a performance regression in try and try! under ruby 2.7+.

Fix eager_loading? when ordering with Hash syntax

After this change, eager_loading? is triggered correctly when using order with hash syntax on an outer table, instead of raising an error.

Parallelize tests only when there are enough to justify the parallelization overhead

Parallelizing tests has a cost in terms of database setup and fixture loading. This change makes Rails disable parallelization when the number of tests is below a configurable threshold.

29 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi, zzak again with the changes from the last week in Rails.

Rails 6.1.4 was released

This release includes many bug fixes so be sure to upgrade! You can read the full summary of changes here.

Deleting an item from the Middleware stack should raise if the item is not found

A bug was fixed when trying to remove a non-existent middleware off the stack.

Generators should raise an error if an attribute has an invalid index

An error is now raised in bin/rails when trying to generate a model with a misspelled “index” attribute.

config_for accepts root shared as an array

A bug was fixed when using config_for with a shared config that is defined as an array.

Handle error when file does not exist at filepath

A more helpful error message is given when using render: file for a non-existent absolute path.

Handle paths with spaces when editing credentials

This issue identifies a bug with trying to use bin/rails credentials:edit on Windows.

Truncate more ActionCable broadcast messages to 300 chars

This PR is a follow-up to an older PR that tried to cut down on ActionCable logging noise in development.

Verify foreign keys after loading fixtures

This PR introduces a new feature where referential integrity is applied to associations when loading fixtures.

It only works for SQLite and Postgres for now, if anyone has idea how to make this work in MySQL.

20 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hello. News about latest changes in Rails delivered to you by Wojtek.

Active Record destroy_all performs in batches

By default it will load records in batches of 100 and allow to specify the custom batch size.

Add support for ordinal date values

A valid ordinal value will be converted to an instance of TimeWithZone.
In example “21087” value will be parsed to 28-03-2021 date.

Add existence check to foregin key migrations

It is now possible to use if_exists / if_not_exist on remove_foreign_key / add_foreign_key in database migrations.

Add possibility to configure Active Storage for Action Mailbox

It is now possible to configure Active Storage service for storing email raw source via config.action_mailbox.storage_service.

Support strict_loading_by_default in Active Storage

Before the patch, Active Storage representation objects did not play nice with strict loading configuration.

Replace uglifier with terser

Terser is more up to date with modern javascript features, and the uglifier gem repository recommends using it for minifying ES6+ code.

32 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi there, this is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in Rails!

Time#change should pass the zone property through if it’s set

This PR fixes an issue with changing date objects when the zone is set.

Fix number_to_currency to avoid negative format when displaying zero

This PR fixes number_to_currency to avoid negative format when displaying zero. Before this change, number_to_currency(-0.00456789, precision: 2) _returned _$-0.00

Support preloads on instance dependent associations

From now on instance dependent associations are supporting preloading. To get more details about this change, read the PR descriptions, it explains it really well.

37 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 6.1.4 has been released.

CHANGES since 6.1.3

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:

6.1.4 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 6.1.4:

$ shasum -a 256 *-6.1.4.gem
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As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hello, zzak here with the latest changes from the last week to Rails.

Rails 6.0.4 was released

This release includes many bug fixes so be sure to upgrade! You can read the full summary of changes here.

Improve security of untyped bound values in MySQL

This solves a potential query manipulation vulnerability with MySQL.

Improve usability of multi-db when config is invalid

A helpful exception is now raised if pool_config is nil when using config.active_record.writing_role(:all).

Enhancements to Active Record Encryption

After introducing encryption into Active Record, a couple new features and a bug fix were followed!

Add support for eager loading Active Storage variants

This PR removes N+1 queries from Active Storage when using with_all_variant_records and with_attached_* scope.

Fix strict loading through associations

Previously there was a bug when using strict_loading where eager loading wouldn’t propagate through associations.

Use the current Rails version inside package.json

Previously when generating a new Rails app, the package.json would hard-code the string “6.0.0” for all npm dependencies. This now uses the Rails version that generated the app.

Add support for Active Storage expiring URLs

This allows expiring URLs for signed blob ids in Active Storage via the “expires_in” parameter or by setting a default with “config.active_storage.urls_expire_in”.

Support default “cache_control” in Active Storage for GCS

This PR adds support for setting the default “cache_control” headers for uploads using Google Cloud Storage service.

Use FFmpeg scene detection for generating video previews

By using the built-in features of FFmpeg, Active Storage now generates much better thumbnails for videos. These parameters were also made configurable in a follow-up PR!

Deprecate “purge” and “purge_later” on Active Storage attachments association model

You should be calling these methods directly on the attachment and not on the association.

Add Model.update! that is similar to Model.update but raises exceptions

You may be familiar with the instance method Model#update!, but now you can do that on the class!

Performance regression in CollectionAssocation#build

This fixes a huge performance bug for inversing associations with a lot of records.

Reduce stat(2) calls

Classic nobu. This patch was later optimized in a follow-up PR.

Don’t attach UJS form submission handlers to Turbo forms

This quality-of-life improvement is for apps migrating from RailsUJS to Turbo with both living inside the codebase to easily distinguish which should handle forms.

28 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 6.0.4 has been released.

CHANGES since 6.0.3

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:

6.0.4 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 6.0.4:

$ shasum -a 256 *-6.0.4.gem
384a4edf491b5a77d81cd4e39f9e7ccc1d758178a342df5a874a0d3694bef21a  actioncable-6.0.4.gem
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As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Hi, Wojtek here with the summary of changes from the last week.

Add audio analyzer to Active Storage

It extracts duration and bit rate of audio files and stores it in the record metadata column.

Recognize audio presence in the video blobs

The metadata attribute of video blobs has a new boolean key named audio that is set to true if the file has an audio channel and false if it doesn’t.

Add attributes_for_database to Active Record

Returns attributes with values for assignment to the database. It works both for Active Record and Active Model objects.

Get rid of cattr_accessor in ActiveRecord::Base

More work on improving performance by eliminating class variables. This is a followup to previous change where detailed benchmark can be found.

23 people contributed to Rails since last time. All the changes can be checked here. Until next week!