The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.

  • Introducing Action Text for Rails 6

    Action Text is a brand new framework coming to Rails 6 that’s going to make creating, editing, and displaying rich text content in your applications super easy. It’s an integration...

  • Multi env credentials support, Action Cable channel unit testing and more!

    Hello everyone! This is Prathamesh from Pune, India bringing you the latest news from the Rails world. Multi environment support for credentials Now it is possible to have credentials for each environment....

  • Performance improvements, configuration options, and more

    Greetings! Daniel here, reporting from Brooklyn, NY. Use faster globs for template resolving Resolving templates used to get pretty slow as the number of view paths, handlers, and formats increased....

  • Read replica database configurations, faster parameter filtering, and more!

    Hello everyone! This is Eugene, bringing you the highlights from the last week of activity in the Rails codebase. Add hooks to Active Job on retries and discards Your application...

  • Action Cable testing utilities, bugfixes and more!

    Happy Sunday! This is Greg bringing you the latest news about Rails. The initializers Rake task is moved to Rails::Command Another Rake task is moved to Rails::Command, so in Rails...

  • Cookies with purpose, Array extract! and more

    Welcome in this week news edition from Rails world. This is Wojtek bringing you summary of latest activities. Once Webpacker is the default in rails/master, we’ll be unveiling the alpha...

  • Rails 5.2.1, skip caching nil entries and more

    Namaste everyone! This is Prathamesh bringing you the latest news from the Rails world with some rain and chai from Pune. Rails 5.2.1 is out in the wild Rails 5.2.1...

  • Rails 5.2.1 has been released!

    Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.1 has been released. CHANGES since 5.2.0 To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub: Action...

  • Rails 5.2.1.rc1, faster parallel testing and more

    Hello everyone! This is Roque, with the latest news about Ruby on Rails! Help test Rails 5.2.1.rc1 Help us test this release candidate to have a solid and stable 5.2.1....

  • Rails 5.2.1.rc1 has been released!

    Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Rails 5.2.1.rc1 has been released. If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Monday, August 6, 2018. If you find...