Performance improvements, collection cache versioning and more

Posted by morgoth85, April 19, 2019 @ 12:00 am in News

Hello. This is Wojtek reporting on recent changes from Rails world.

Collection cache versioning

Add cache_version on relation to support recyclable cache keys via the versioned entries in ActiveSupport::Cache. This also means that cache_key will now return a stable key that does not include the max timestamp or count any more.

Speed up dirty tracking

Reports 2x ~ 30x faster execution time compared to original implementation.

Add dirty methods for store accessors

It is now possible to use methods defined by Dirty module on store accessors.

Add after_save_commit callback shortcut

Adds shortcut for very common case:

after_commit :hook, on: [ :create, :update ]

Notes tags registration

It is now possible to register custom tags that will be included on bin/rails notes command.

Add db:prepare rake task

Based on state of database it runs setup or migrate tasks.

Add detach_from to ActiveSupport::Subscriber

It is now possible to opt-out from listening on chosen events.

Factorize bin/update in bin/setup

Replaced two files with one. From now on bin/setup should be idempotent in the project, thus should run fine on the first time setup and after any update.

71 people contributed to Rails in the last 3 weeks. You can see the full list of changes here.

Until next time!

New versions of Rails, optimizer hints, ROFL, and more

Posted by dodecadaniel, April 2, 2019 @ 12:00 am in News

Hi there! This is Daniel reporting from Brooklyn, NY.

New versions of Rails released

Rails 5.2.3 and Rails 5.1.7 were released last week. Check out the CHANGELOG and upgrade today!

Optimizer Hints and Annotations

These two related PRs were opened within a couple hours of each other. The new optimizer_hints method offers a simple way to include optimizer hints in your queries. The new annotate method offers a simple way to annotate your queries with comments.

The best PR that I saw this year!

This PR elegantly ensures that ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer’s sub, sub!, gsub, and gsub! methods set back references. I learned a lot about Ruby by reading through this code and the review comments.

Stop ROFL

I always enjoy removing code that is no longer needed. It must be especially fun to remove code that includes the comment “I will explain the roflscale so that others will not rm this code.”

Use weak references in the descendants tracker

Nobody wants a memory leak. Keeping track of these references allows us to garbage collect anonymous subclasses.

Advancing to dates before 1001-03-07

I am constantly plagued by bugs related to time. This PR reminds me how complicated time really is.

Allow disabling of console sandbox

Has anybody else ever opened a production console session and fogotten to close it? ✋ Ever done it with the --sandbox flag and caused your database to run out of memory? 😭 Thanks, Rails, for protecting me against myself.

Improved error messages from views

Thinking about contributing to Rails? Check out this PR from a first-time contributor for inspiration.

55 people contributed to Rails in the last 2 weeks, including 6 first-time contributors. You can see the full list of changes here.

Rails 5.2.3 has been released

Posted by rafaelfranca, March 28, 2019 @ 3:05 am in Releases

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.3 has been released.

CHANGES since 5.2.2

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

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

5.2.3 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 5.2.3:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.2.3.gem
755e335b8b064592717157057a647ba1c4d519be2a912f11c3993e8d5c4e8d13  actioncable-5.2.3.gem
8a6fbf3f52243cdc194c289a417856355899bcc99ec2868300a2b26f40f58a96  actionmailer-5.2.3.gem
81830a59e18d7570386a01bb332538ddf0926b5ed7566646ef608a78825751e8  actionpack-5.2.3.gem
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2856b0036869e89043f5c870a1a99d2c811785130fea4affad83cf971db91b84  activesupport-5.2.3.gem
f9b51b66a91d556d63d36d04449ecc23867683f99531db21eb7a263be2d7ecdc  rails-5.2.3.gem
042388decffb47dab796e4ddb30a2d615047d7c334de7fe47208545e1677c9be  railties-5.2.3.gem

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

Rails 5.1.7 has been released

Posted by rafaelfranca, March 28, 2019 @ 2:55 am in Releases

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.1.7 has been released.

CHANGES since 5.1.6

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

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

5.1.7 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 5.1.7:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.1.7.gem
c344a1b4edd4108b93b341343106e73466d8bbf0a79c926a62c74f6b22984ec1  actioncable-5.1.7.gem
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8d7f527c446de3f99ec506e6a680c42c38979a44b37beb15f7d451a33e74dcf5  rails-5.1.7.gem
c874ebb682f628cfe075c3b9762d3b2ff1a04585c25a2f4eb3840c4b29d73e72  railties-5.1.7.gem

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

Rails 5.1.7.rc1 has been released!

Posted by rafaelfranca, March 22, 2019 @ 4:22 am in Releases

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.1.7.rc1 has been released.

This is going to be the final bug fix release for the 5.1 series, so please make sure you test the release candidates to make sure no regressions are found.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Wednesday, March 27, 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 5.1.6

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

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

5.1.7.rc1 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 5.1.7.rc1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.1.7.rc1.gem
4b50c8213b6b4846f35d994991458da797185f9e0ca92063131a59f5890bb5e3  actioncable-5.1.7.rc1.gem
65c84a566b58a4faf10e02abe4dd09f5d7101cfb79896cbf3bfb0d623c06f07b  actionmailer-5.1.7.rc1.gem
8c230b21146c155793c874da49f032be595343df4e8cca59b4be172d10b95e5a  actionpack-5.1.7.rc1.gem
cd9b9acf025c99c113155192622ebb333c729e8a99dea43d91c6016bdb287e0b  actionview-5.1.7.rc1.gem
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26e956e7b2d16e0783f48ae05e6822da2aabac96ecf1f3b78d6e035145f10b6c  activesupport-5.1.7.rc1.gem
ca0f895446ceece1d904e96bedff90224e715acb9f124b60ffc9ac1b568ed07d  rails-5.1.7.rc1.gem
bbd0b366890da1c6baa3bd68c3132e499f53143351b7ab382c661a0fb9f07ac1  railties-5.1.7.rc1.gem

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

Rails 5.2.3.rc1 has been released!

Posted by rafaelfranca, March 22, 2019 @ 3:51 am in Releases

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.3.rc1 has been released.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Wednesday, March 27, 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 5.2.2

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

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

5.2.3.rc1 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 5.2.3.rc1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.2.3.rc1.gem
353ad8bf6ae456c3392d2d38817263b242eafb8c36a56dc39ef168dba85913cf  actioncable-5.2.3.rc1.gem
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As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.

Security fixes, bulk insert and upsert, seeds replanting

Posted by morgoth85, March 15, 2019 @ 12:00 am in News

Hello. This is Wojtek here bringing you the exciting updates from Rails.

Security fix releases of Rails

Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1, and 6.0.0.beta3 have been released containing important security fixes. Note that with 6.0 release only Rails 6.x.y and Rails 5.2.x are guaranteed to receive both major and minor security fixes by Rails core.

Active Record adds “insert_all” and “upsert_all” methods

It’s now possible to insert many records at once within one SQL statement. You can check summary of this feature in Josef’s blog post.

Rails command “db:seed:replant” added

Bring back clean state of database seeds with this simple command without redoing the database structure.

Active Support adds Enumerable “including” method

Self-explained by an example:

[ 1, 2, 3 ].including(4, 5) => [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]

For parity, method without was renamed to excluding.

54 people contributed to Rails in the last 2 weeks. You can see the full list of changes here.

Until next time!

Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1, and 6.0.0.beta3 have been released!

Posted by eileencodes, March 13, 2019 @ 1:49 pm in Releases

Hello everyone!

Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1, and 6.0.0.beta3 have been released! These contain the following important security fixes. It is recommended that users upgrade as soon as possible:

Rails 5.2.2.1 and 6.0.0.beta3 also contain the following fix:

The released versions can be found in the usual locations, and you can find a list of changes on GitHub:

If you’re not able to upgrade immediately workarounds have been provided on the advisory pages in the Google Rails Security Group.

We’ve done our best to minimize any impact to your applications, but if you run in to any issues, please file a ticket and we’ll do our best to help!

If you run in to security issues, please follow the reporting process which can be found here.

SHA-256

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

$ shasum -a 256 *4.2.11.1.gem*
5ec3df89a6796f18006198b95e6849ea736bc6170da0daf7d8cec9e388a49ca3  actionmailer-4.2.11.1.gem
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$ shasum -a 256 *5.0.7.2.gem*
525621c9bde0e729e566e9ebdaf23945cf0cc0b11e731f3f74c7d4d839e97b01  actioncable-5.0.7.2.gem
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$ shasum -a 256 *5.1.6.2.gem*
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$ shasum -a 256 *5.2.2.1.gem*
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$ shasum -a 256 *6.0.0.beta3.gem*
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reselect, negative enum scopes and more!

Posted by imtayadeway, March 3, 2019 @ 12:00 am in News

Why hello there! Tim here bringing you all the latest and greatest from This Week In Rails.

Negative scopes for enum values

Some sugar around enum values allows you to make negative scopes such as

Post.not_drafted # => where.not(status: :drafted)

New method: reselect

Allows you to change a previously set select statement in the same manner to rewhere and reorder, e.g.

Post.select(:title, :body).reselect(:created_at)

#size fixed when using SELECT DISTINCT

#size_ would ignore the DISTINCT in the select, giving a different result to #count. This is now fixed!

Active Storage’s _blob loading fixed

If you attached a has_one_attachment attachment, you may have found that the attachment’s _blob method would have returned nil. This was fixed by assigning the blob when the attachment is assigned.

22 people contributed to Rails since our last issue; you can see the full list of changes here.

Until next week!

Rails 6.0.0 beta2 released

Posted by dhh, February 25, 2019 @ 11:00 pm in Releases

We’re marching one step closer to the final release of Rails 6 with this second beta. We’ve fixed a bunch of issues and added a few minor features, but the big change is switching to Xavier’s new Zeitwerk library for handling autoloading. It’s a big, structural change to how we require dependencies at runtime, and it should remove a bunch of the legacy warts, and the weird gotchas. Xavier wrote up a long piece on it you should check out.

Otherwise things are much the same as they were with the first beta. I encourage you to read the release notes for that to understand the big picture of 6.0.

You can peruse all the 532 commits we’ve made since the first beta.

We are still kinda on track with our published timeline for the final Rails 6.0 release, so consult that plan for your migration planning, but please do help us already by testing your application on beta2! I’d also encourage anyone with a moderate level of Rails experience to start any new app using beta2, rather than the Rails 5.2.x series. Basecamp and Shopify are both already running Rails 6.0.0.beta2 in production. This isn’t some rickety-shack release.

This release, and all releases leading up to Rails 6.0 final, was shepherded by release manager Rafael França with support by Kasper Timm Hansen.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps working on making Rails better!