Rails News

  • Planning Center is the newest Rails Foundation Contributing member

    We’re excited to welcome Planning Center as a Contributing member of the Rails Foundation - the first new member in 2026! Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Carlsbad, CA (with...

  • Action Text gets Markdown conversion, editor links in devcontainers, and more!

    Hey there, it’s Emmanuel Hayford. A fresh batch of Rails changes just dropped, let’s get into it. Action Text to_markdown generates markdown links for blobs When a rendering context is...

  • New date time helpers, improved hash methods and more!

    Hi, it’s Vipul. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase! Don’t filter StructuredEventSubscriber payloads Previously, StructuredEventSubscriber was filtering out certain keys from event payloads. This PR removes that...

  • This Week in Rails: February 13, 2026

    Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add extension point to customize transaction for persistence methods Extracts the implicit transaction creation in persistence methods into...

  • This Week in Rails: February 6, 2026

    Happy Friday! This is Greg, bringing you the latest changes in the Rails codebase. It was a quiet week, but there are still noteworthy changes, let’s explore them. Read from...

  • Disabled query cache in console and bugfixes

    Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s see what changed in the Rails codebase. Disable the Active Record query cache in the console by default Pass –query-cache to enable it for the session....

  • Squish as fast as you can

    Hi, it’s Claudio Baccigalupo. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Optimize String#squish A RegExp improvement in the Rails codebase makes squishing a string twice as fast. Render...

  • Rails Version 8.1.2 has been released!

    Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Rails 8.1.2 has been released. CHANGES since 8.1.1 To see a summary of changes, please read the release on GitHub: 8.1.2 CHANGELOG...

  • Error-aware retry_on, PostgreSQL type mappings, and more!

    Hi, it’s Emmanuel Hayford. Here’s a look at the highlights from this week’s updates to the Rails codebase. Allow retry_on wait procs to accept error as a second argument This...

  • This Week in Rails: January 2, 2026

    Hi, it’s zzak. Hope everyone had a great holiday season and a happy new year! 🎊 Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add Rails.app.revision Add Rails.app.revision to...