You know the city, now save the date: #RailsWorld 2024 will take place Sept 26 & 27. Mark your calendars! More info (tickets, sponsorships, cfp. etc) coming soon.

Better Mailer Previews: A Way to Preview ActionMailer Email Templates — A Rails engine that builds on top of native Rails mailer previews with enhancements including seeing live, resizable previews, and the ability to forward previews to an email address.

New edition of This Week in Rails

There's a fix in travel_to, restores support for object_id as model attribute, defines fieldset_tag to match the spelling of the HTML tag, and more!

⚡ Rails Week

Ruby 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1 Released — We’re now just 11 days from the final release, but Shopify is already using this in production. There are few changes since preview 3, though I note ‘code GC’ is now disabled by default, but this seems like a good thing for performance in most cases.

Introducing Solid Queue

A new DB-based queuing backend for Active Job that we open-sourced today.

https://dev.37signals.com/introducing-solid-queue/

Enqueue Multiple Jobs Together with perform_all_later in Rails

Are you still looping over the list of jobs to enqueue them individually? This post explores the new perform_all_later method in Rails, which was introduced in Rails 7.1 and lets you enqueue multiple jobs together to reduce the round-trip to the job backend, like Redis or the database.

Digging into Turbo 8's Morphing Feature in Ruby on Rails

The gist of the blog post and talk is that Turbo frames and streams are useful but often cumbersome to integrate since they are highly focused containers of logic.

They won’t be going away but might be more of a _special-use_ tool coming up with the introduction of morphing which could be a more convenient and useful “default” much like the standard full-page reloads of historical Rails apps.

Just like image_tag, audio_tag and video_tag can now accept Active Storage attachments. From Rails 7.1 they can generate audio and video tags when passed an attachment without the need to call polymorphic_path.

Here's what's coming in Rails 8

Work on Rails 8 is starting, so I dug through the official GitHub milestone to break down all the upcoming goodies for you. There's plenty coming, including Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal becoming defaults, better support for PWAs, an official LSP, and more!

Read more →

Rails 7.1.3 has been released

https://rubyonrails.org/2024/1/16/Rails-7-1-3-has-been-released

Action Mailer has a new method to deliver enqueued jobs: deliver_enqueued_emails. It works with and w/out a block. With a block, it delivers all emails within the block. It also accepts a 'queue' option, which delivers the emails held in 'queue'.

A frequently employed pattern in Ruby, particularly in testing scenarios, involves preserving the current value of an attribute, assigning a new value, and subsequently restoring the original value within an ensure clause. Rails 7.1 introduced the 'with' method to help.

How to deal with PostgreSQL Backups using Kamal

What is Kamal
Developed by 37signals (creators of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and Hey), Kamal is a modern evolution of Capistrano for the world of containerised applications.

In addition to its hassle-free deployment on servers, whether virtual machines or bare metal, Kamal is known for its zero downtime deployments and rolling restarts. This ensures continuous service availability.