Hello everyone! This is Greg with the latest news from the Rails world.

Rails 5.1.3.rc1 and 5.0.5.rc1 released

Two new release candidates has been released this week, if there are no regressions found, the final releases are coming next week!

This Week’s Rails contributors!

28 people helped to make Rails better this week. If you want to be one of them, checkout the issues list, help is always welcomed!

Add bootsnap to default Gemfile

The bootsnap gem helps to boot a Rails application faster, and the gem is now part of the Rails default Gemfile.

Allow to pass a connection to the dbconsole command

With this change the dbconsole command can except a connection parameter, so if you are using a 3 level database connection configuration you can specify the connection you want to use.

Fix where with a custom table name

With this week the select clause will use the custom table name if you have a table alias set up.

Scrub the invalid parameter value before using it in the error

When Rack::Utils::InvalidParameterError is raised the exception message now scrubs the parameter value to make it possible to use it in error messages.

Make rails yarn:install ignore dev dependencies

With this change rails yarn:install won’t install the development dependencies, so in deployment when the assets are precompiled they are ignored. bin/yarn still installs everything in your development environment.

That’s all for this week, as always, we couldn’t cover all of the changes, but feel free to check the commits if you are interested. Until next week!

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.1.3.rc1 and 5.0.5.rc1 have been released.

If no regressions are found, expect the final releases Monday, July 24, 2017. If you find one, please open an issue on GitHub and mention me (@kaspth) on it, so that we can fix it before the final release.

CHANGES since 5.1.2

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 Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 5.1.3.rc1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.1.3.rc1.gem
3716fe810ac09651160af680e0622dba606eadc3532dc6100a09bc3dc46d8a79  actioncable-5.1.3.rc1.gem
9e734dcdb918f269bc027e31430648a58c205842b99c4990d19f33af41862027  actionmailer-5.1.3.rc1.gem
6f3739bea472a54a27b3982ea246028d4277580e2ff98c6343e07d95d54b29ad  actionpack-5.1.3.rc1.gem
482286af2d2146f6208e757fa29337dc73f9237c240bca753485992cf906bdb5  actionview-5.1.3.rc1.gem
2356ecbc1f1393a1577031894074d333fdc6d27e4ab9de796d2b97fff8676b8b  activejob-5.1.3.rc1.gem
f6ade74444578944fc3b8e376c4b050dda63bb7145abec4777dcb16867b42d30  activemodel-5.1.3.rc1.gem
72a886347747b61578a2aac1b34715042cb8f67fe43d8e53a2290220d08b8a3c  activerecord-5.1.3.rc1.gem
9220885a9d919430fa08cf72baf922000f7c36266d8f711498b7a6fb711eab2d  activesupport-5.1.3.rc1.gem
a06eded7f5e2bf1d6ecc69589062966bb701ccb8896d5aac5a6171ff38d037d4  rails-5.1.3.rc1.gem
727e65bc8c8fd359997bd1442c152f8628ddc318f68c9fba1ca603dda2db7766  railties-5.1.3.rc1.gem

CHANGES since 5.0.4

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 Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 5.0.5.rc1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.0.5.rc1.gem
71ae996b0cbadc4836d8de61058870fe3d7ae275c5a3d345b851ca8b88e7c5a7  actioncable-5.0.5.rc1.gem
58fe87b9daf4dc1ddc89110e83846c0e0939fc97c8463e789785d28eddd34ee1  actionmailer-5.0.5.rc1.gem
123d468dcb3e523d1fb82367ebec2d630c6b625d1ad3d1b635bfc718c5d94624  actionpack-5.0.5.rc1.gem
117d39ee700e82903a3f0c3c242e986326acd08e7bab1059fd0afc6e58a2d19c  actionview-5.0.5.rc1.gem
99c51db0728e139a7833af9785323c967cbd474b3f9f1d20f5802628c33398f4  activejob-5.0.5.rc1.gem
9f81997461c252608451c61f5121754fb8aa36f30a1f9f6167a77826cae76be1  activemodel-5.0.5.rc1.gem
9cef200cd17925cd22055d6c5b2d2f22514f434f98983bcba0484e472f208211  activerecord-5.0.5.rc1.gem
ca8be3d1ee126f0e0b84cb9c932771cd718a524c60f2a63dccd32c33831aff74  activesupport-5.0.5.rc1.gem
0fd92b43895a1a73d639b93eec67159bed1003ce2a3f6250030b05091ae40046  rails-5.0.5.rc1.gem
3516bc7c5d3337fe5134ac0a7ec60337078817b569a56381a4f3fe737ef04546  railties-5.0.5.rc1.gem

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

Hello everyone! This is Roque bringing you the latest news from the Rails world.

It’s been two weeks, so let’s begin!

Featured

Active Storage is coming to Rails 5.2

A brand-new framework for managing user uploads is coming to Rails ecosystem. The TODO list is full of ideas, and it’s a great opportunity to send a PR and improve the library.

This Week’s Rails contributors!

We had 24 people who helped make the Rails better this week. Two of them contributed for the first time ever! If you would like to help out, check the issues list.

New

rails secrets:show will tell secrets!

The command will the decrypt encrypted secrets and display them in your console if you have the key file.

Protect from forgery by default

You no longer need to enable the CSRF protection when creating new apps. They will be more secure by default.

Add time helper method freeze_time

The new helper method will travel_to Time.now freezing time. You can call it with a block or not.

Fixed

Prevent invalid PostgreSQL UUIDs

The UUID validation was allowing mismatched curly braces. The fix requires both a leading and a trailing curly brace, or neither.

Fix long Action Cable channel names for PostgreSQL

Action Cable will hash channel names with SHA-1 if they reach the limit of 63 bytes.

Improved

Change SQLite 3 boolean serialization to use 1 and 0

This change in serialization requires a migration of stored boolean data to use 1 and 0 , instead of 't' and 'f'. You can use this change by enabling the configuration: ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLite3Adapter.represent_boolean_as_integer = true

That’s it for this week, as always, we couldn’t cover all of the changes, but feel free to check the commits if you are interested. Until next week!

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.1.2 has been released.

CHANGES since 5.1.1

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 Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 5.1.2:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.1.2.gem
27943a2642cd94478a88d4e239bb1467476d2acd10f0f588b220e05367163524  actioncable-5.1.2.gem
e62c4e1b09565e8188d405eac974db1cf31b552064fa9e15fac686556837909f  actionmailer-5.1.2.gem
b63833831efcfc5fce72deb5bfc14feb7bbe87dd065d8de5904db6dfbc115bca  actionpack-5.1.2.gem
82efdca96308476cb644d65bc9842167099ed1210ce3c8b626be9ebdcc8c311e  actionview-5.1.2.gem
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e5d8ae2826f733220dd29792bda5c57d7aa5f6bca036abc1a5fcd4632628f1ce  activemodel-5.1.2.gem
a3757003b09ac6926d18b32106927d341f906fdf71aa8fa2e3a8e8e0716548ce  activerecord-5.1.2.gem
0ecf4132689fc06c888c8a1d6678dc22ab972ff5abe797c4fc685582c9ce9d17  activesupport-5.1.2.gem
4ee8ea1a2760cafbd70fbc878fd0c4ad2fec105082719c818934b39fd4ff0e9b  rails-5.1.2.gem
db82fbd1dd000b9f5558bfa20c341ccf74ea43716f96e3839be5c219fffe78fc  railties-5.1.2.gem

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

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 4.2.9 has been released.

Following our maintenance policy, since the release of Rails 5.1.0, the 4.2 series will only receive new releases in case of severe security issues.

CHANGES since 4.2.8

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

• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 4.2.9:

$ shasum -a 256 *-4.2.9.gem
bffbd5830a26af64d92548a831624a5422c77d97b2115c08b668fcbcc26f34ad  actionmailer-4.2.9.gem
8471fb1f9cc4962f3e000325821f1de0538a12cb580b0772ff9f89fbc8c1f9cd  actionpack-4.2.9.gem
d7fbbe069f74a6e7ce76cf91d0fede1593a0ed0db875f4630d8343551fb96f12  actionview-4.2.9.gem
a0086b19823d056efc1c8e7052d6684f54bebe7c9101ba69bd1a58c33d737451  activejob-4.2.9.gem
dbcd32a5e6294323b893565c0c334f6d89bb92d5085ce5e3d0454de0ed8eb5e3  activemodel-4.2.9.gem
0be77a1f77b2c8ae0e767c6fafb4c8fdda89c0be49ded0ae6f9644e81a4827a2  activerecord-4.2.9.gem
5717d2fe6409d4df72f0d20e46d7261503ccafc80ab228e91455d47185190ab4  activesupport-4.2.9.gem
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ad7b7765849a9aff0c42674f9512c39c098af63bb8476a4076a252fac3b4b2bc  railties-4.2.9.gem

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

Hi there! This is Kir from chilling Ottawa, bringing you another edition of This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in.

Featured

🎉 This Week’s Rails contributors! 🎉

We had 21 awesome people who helped make Rails better this week, with one first-time contributor! Would you like to help as well? Head over to the 👉 issues list.

New

🎉 Rails 4.2.9.rc2, 5.0.4 and 5.1.2rc1 have been released 🎉

It’s your chance to help us discover bugs in 4.2.9 and 5.1.2 release candidates. Also, Rails 4.2.9 will be the last release in 4.2 series, so it’s time to upgrade if your app is still running on Rails 4.

Perf

Use bulk INSERT to insert fixtures

Inserting fixtures in test environment became significantly faster by using one bulk INSERT query instead of many single INSERTs.

Fixed

current_page? helper now works from within a Rails Engine

Due a bug related to a trailing slash, current_page? helper always returned false while it was supposed to return true when it was called from a Rails Engine route.

Keep INNER JOIN when merging relations

Now you can safely merge two ActiveRecord relations both having a JOIN. Previously, that would to query with LEFT OUTER JOIN instead of INNER JOIN.

That’s it for this week, as always, we couldn’t cover all of the changes, but feel free to check all the commits from this week.

Until next week! 👋👋

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.1.2.rc1 has been released.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Monday, June 26, 2017. 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 5.1.1

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 Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 5.1.2.rc1:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.1.2.rc1.gem
ae90de7d8f5d1129a162e9419b65e08870a433ed4eb067bcd44be161de394773  actioncable-5.1.2.rc1.gem
bd7b3ac7dacb1a983bf2b5dcc56255261421285ef9b5cc5d645d416a1ba42378  actionmailer-5.1.2.rc1.gem
21b097d2ea1009eaad2487b4461f20a2c76d2ea9786e2fb37dd1e87116ca3621  actionpack-5.1.2.rc1.gem
689d6580dbef9c81e43fc77185a7916ef7ca2a3d863300f6e47d8199e4bdbd1c  actionview-5.1.2.rc1.gem
dfa1afc5d701241e25282c318738a8c379fdbd9cf682725f87e1c16584bf3be6  activejob-5.1.2.rc1.gem
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8bc8b1677051975083717c65a3ee3df612b5e9d381db9d90dc71f3484f514a0b  activerecord-5.1.2.rc1.gem
69aab1c234f1223ceedb62168df071bdb3483a00be5e186278983eb1ed636e69  activesupport-5.1.2.rc1.gem
50a14c6e4952297f0a9a510b268ea845833474dccbe1619594c0406ceab5c7fa  rails-5.1.2.rc1.gem
7c18b3a185f73740b020ecf9414ea8d5c254edddefce64e7383bd137c7626d45  railties-5.1.2.rc1.gem

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

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 4.2.9.rc2 has been released.

This is going to be the last bug fix release of the 4.2 series, so please test this release candidate.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Monday, June 26, 2017. 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 4.2.8

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

• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 4.2.9.rc2:

$ shasum -a 256 *-4.2.9.rc2.gem
72037af7844a5b7c9da34d8f177ea5ddc02cc50746cf0f7a2423d9fdaf8daf79  actionmailer-4.2.9.rc2.gem
025ce2b5480da4ead138318256f525b233869f5d6dddd3532ab5eb9129da54ea  actionpack-4.2.9.rc2.gem
d000f1f891b3744000ae73bae8adfe97488b5cfb83929be0e02585e8ef5354bf  actionview-4.2.9.rc2.gem
5e894159ca0fdab9c1ff34626380431c84b1bd080132019ba3c9a42e2bf7ff97  activejob-4.2.9.rc2.gem
33d44145becef028f8d241c800cd049e9e0151111c4b2aca30b68f4eff1d8095  activemodel-4.2.9.rc2.gem
bdc035ad3ac9687af6897e532aae7b7a3111f7a6bf88444bd20746a1e3633970  activerecord-4.2.9.rc2.gem
c548e36f68ed575394559951de7d798a6e5d2da1c48a489ac40032ae3b667327  activesupport-4.2.9.rc2.gem
eb7cdb1b7bb1196ff40d74a98ec44d4521fe3c4e0f4226c814be41e8b1f17d6b  rails-4.2.9.rc2.gem
b939bbf06be8eb7b8a21fdb64c010a96aa4d23d9346f92b1a105f14bc994c112  railties-4.2.9.rc2.gem

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

Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 5.0.4 has been released.

CHANGES since 5.0.3

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 Support CHANGELOG
• Railties 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 5.0.4:

$ shasum -a 256 *-5.0.4.gem
f296d82b6494bc6591963f2cd91a08f6853f3ce9b784ab8a6bada5588ceee280  actioncable-5.0.4.gem
31cb0ca3654c4b9423480fd5b43dec6740c3c234195b50c9906745587ed8c6cc  actionmailer-5.0.4.gem
22e48ed14a49ef76278fa249035aaf2fb1d8a9abc649444a2510a94ffba3d7e3  actionpack-5.0.4.gem
f5b53d280c894afd423be26ffc7546266fd6490c91f7e0e3c2dd6524d8d3dbcb  actionview-5.0.4.gem
65997364e723bf8b041172cb5562da08181d45bbed8d04d9516dc8b6672e1d7f  activejob-5.0.4.gem
6145ae036d43b5b19c91c1d8c8936d06b475f17bf8a255919ce4afb6015d7216  activemodel-5.0.4.gem
d82ba1b3519e50c509e0da488f224e5a6164633ebd3c00053e55ade49a8a3d6b  activerecord-5.0.4.gem
ec3af21ed8df9fdd20d9b9c9a8bef3fc3b7d8b69bcb15a7dbdf8f37072bf2c23  activesupport-5.0.4.gem
956e9bd0acf86701b139432eb3c9e6bc6d2f51e7cccec9a5dcf9c7d3cb14d87d  rails-5.0.4.gem
534fbe66df5f7a8c4e2926e7497a7b876f1d34e33b56238db29faf159ad778dc  railties-5.0.4.gem

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

Hi there! This is Andy, bringing you another edition of This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in.

Featured

🎉 This Week’s Rails contributors! 🎉

We had 23 awesome people who helped make Rails better this week, with 4 first-time contributors! Would you like to help as well? Head over to the 👉 issues list.

New

Allow mailers to configure their delivery job

In some situations, a user may want to configure the delivery job in order to have better control over errors. This adds an option to make that possible.

Perf

Improve performance of mass assignments

This change makes a small improvement to the performance of initializing an ActiveModel instance. The other interesting thing I learned about was the “magic comment” # frozen_string_literal: true. Check the PR for details.

Fixed

Don’t map id to primary key in raw_write_attribute

The hash provided to update_columns is turned into an UPDATE query. Passing an id key resulted in an update to the id column, even if the model uses a different primary key. This fixes that!

Docs

Docs for #delegate_missing_to

A newer feature, now with documentation explaining how and when to use delegate, and delegate_missing_to.

That’s it for this week, as always, we couldn’t cover all of the changes, but feel free to check all the commits from this week.

Until next week! 👋👋