Hey everyone, Happy Friday! I hope you get some time to unwind and relax going into the weekend 😎 Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Allow ActiveRecord::Base#pluck to accept hash values This change adds support for …

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Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Build Rails console on top of IRB’s latest official APIs The Rails console is built on top of IRB, but due to the lack of an extension API, it was extending it with monkey patches. Since…

Let's see what AnyCable brings to the table and how it outperforms Action Cable.

Three different ways to handle authentication in Rails: from quick gem installs to custom-built recipes and flexible generators.

Make your Rails website behave like an installable app by turning it into a PWA.

All new Rails apps will have a webmanifest by default, meaning your app will be a Progressive Web App out of the box!

In this episode we will explore how PWAs work.

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Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Development of Rails 8.0 starts now 🎉 This week marks the official start of Rails 8.0 development. Stay tuned for more updates on Rails 8.0 features and…

Say goodbye to the complexities and costs of managing external services like Redis, and hello to Solid Queue. In this article, we'll explore using Solid Queue to proce...

I’ve really been enjoying Ruby’s destructuring syntax for Hashes. So much so that I dug in a little further and figured out how to destructure pretty much everything in Ruby.

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Hey everyone, Happy Friday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in. Improved Active Record Migration Documentation The Rails Foundation documentation team continues to improve different areas of the Guides. This Pull Request…

We want to make Inertia.js more popular within the Rails community, so we've started a project to provide both Rails-specific community docs and a set of tools for simply integrating Inertia into Rails apps.

Hi, it's zzak. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. Support "immutable" directive in Cache-Control This PR adds a new option to the expires_in method to support the immutable directive for the "Cache-Control" header. Also pass "local_assigns"…

Hi, Wojtek here. See the short list of changes from this past week. Add compressor option to Active Record encryption ActiveRecord::Encryption::Encryptor now supports a :compressor option to customize the compression algorithm used. The default compressor…

Are startups choosing Ruby and Rails in 2024? Yes, they are! Moreover, they're shipping products faster by switching to Rails from the hyped Next.js and the established Java. Hear these stories in Irina's keynote at RailsConf.

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