Rails 7.1 Unwrapped

The Rails SaaS Conference 2023

Unwrapping new features in Rails 7.1

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1. Rails 7.1 Unwrapped Emmanuel Hayford @siaw23
2. The Rails Changelog, host This Week In Rails, co-editor https://www.railschangelog.com https://rubyonrails.org/newsletter
3. Rails 7.0 Highlights Autoloading with Zeitwerk Asynchronous Query Loading Active Record Encryption Webpacker removed, import-maps added Turbolinks, UJS removed, Turbo and Stimulus added
4. Number of merged PRs since 16th Dec. 2021
5. Total number of merged PRs since Rails 7.0 to date 2,335
6. Add *_deliver callbacks for Action Mailer #47630 Action Mailer
7. Introduce #deliver_enqueued_emails method to ActionMailer::TestHelper #47520 Action Mailer
8. Safer Direct Uploads in JS Libraries or Frameworks #47773 Active Storage
9. Extend audio_tag and video_tag to accept Active Storage attachments #44085 Active Storage
10. Add --parent option to job generator to specify parent class of job #45528 Active Job rails g job payment rails g job process_payment --parent=payment_job
11. Add perform_all_later to enqueue multiple jobs at once #46603 Active Job
12. Allow templates to de fi ne which locals they accept #45602 Action View
13. Let link_to infer link name from Model#to_s #42234 Action View
14. Add a picture_tag helper #48100 Action View
15. Add routes --unused option to detect extraneous routes #45701 Action Pack rails routes --unused
16. Allow CSRF tokens to be stored outside of session #44283 Action Pack
17. Add exclude? method to ActionController::Parameters #45887 Action Pack
18. Implement Object#with #46681 Active Support
19. Add TestCase#stub_const #44294 Active Support
20. Pass options accessor to Cache#fetch block #45905 Active Support
21. Add Rails.env.local? #46786 Active Support
22. Rotate Default Logs on Each 100MB #44888 Railties
23. Improve support for custom namespaces #47583 Railties
24. Common Table Expression support added "out-of-the-box" #37944 Active Record
25. Add ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes #43945 Active Record
26. Active Record API for general async queries #44446 Active Record
27. ActiveRecord::Relation#explain accepts options #47043 Active Record
28. Add drop_enum command for Postgres #45735 Active Record
29. Add #update_attribute! #44141 Active Record
30. Add destroy_association_async_batch_size con fi guration #44617 Active Record
31. Option to disable all methods that ActiveRecord.enum generates #46490 Active Record
32. Allow ActiveRecord::QueryMethods#select to accept a hash #45612 Active Record Add support for exclusion constraints (PostgreSQL-only) #40224 Introduce adapter for Trilogy, a MySQL-compatible DB client #47880 Support encrypted attributes on columns with default values #45033 * Add validity for PostgreSQL indexes #45160 * Allow unscoping of preload and eager_load associations #45147 Add a build persistence method #45696 Allow resetting singular associations #46165 Add option to con fi gure digest algorithm in Active Record Encryption #44873 Allow ErrorReporter to handle several error classes #46299 Add db_runtime to Active Job instrumentation #40058 Add support for logging background job enqueue callers #47839 Return the blob/blobs when #attach is able to save the record #44439 Fixes ActiveStorage proxy downloads of fi les over 5mb in S3-like storages Introduce html: and screenshot: kwargs for system test screenshot helper #44720 Add include_seconds option to datetime_local_ fi eld. #45188 Add default Docker fi les #46762 Use puma worker count equal to processor count in production #46838 Use puma worker count equal to processor count in production #46838
33. Active Record Thanks!