Powerful Rails Features You Might Not Know

An unbelievable amount of features are packed into Rails making it one of the most powerful web frameworks you can use. So let’s take a look at some little known, underused, and new things in Rails 7.

A few of the topics we’ll cover:

• ActiveRecord features like “excluding”, strict_loading, virtual columns, with_options, attr_readonly, etc
• ActiveStorage named variants
• ActionText embedding any database record
• Saving ActionMailbox inbound emails in ActionText
• Routing constraints like the “(un)authenticated” helpers in Devise
• Overriding generator templates like scaffolds to add your own features
• Custom Turbo Stream Actions with Hotwire
• Turbo Native authentication with your Rails backend
• ActiveSupport features like truncate_words
• Rails 7.1’s new features: authentication, normalizes, logging background enqueue callers, and more.