...See this ES6 compatibility matrix for details. ES6 and Uglifier If you're using Rails with the assets pipeline (sprockets) you are probably using Uglifier to minify your JavaScript.
...can check if that's an issue for your project by running bundle exec rails assets:precompile in your development environment (don't forget to run bundle exec assets:clobber...
We are using assignable_values for managing enum values in Rails. Nevertheless Rails is adding more support for enum attributes, allowing to have a closer look at the current feature...
...to our still preferred option assignable_values. Active Record enum attribute interface By default Rails is mapping enum attributes to integers: class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base enum :status, [ :active, :archived ]
...so please feel free to contribute! General workflows The official guide How to upgrade Rails: Workflow advice Upgrading Rails: Example commits Upgrade to Rails 7 Don't use log level...
...debug in your production environments Rails 7.1: Take care of the new production log default to standard out Upgrade to Rails 6 Don't use log level :debug in your...
...our applications. Hunting it down, we found that the memory leak was located in Rails' #prepend_view_path. It occurs when the instance method prepend_view_path is called in...
...in your ApplicationController, you can just use #prepend_view_path as before. Note that Rails 7 version differs slightly. Known affected Rails versions (maybe more): Rails 4.0 - 7.0
...under Selenium WebDriver is super-painful. It's much easier to detect the current Rails environment instead. You might be better of checking against the name of the current Rails...
...in a data-environment of your . E.g., in your application layout: <html data-environment=<%= Rails.env %>> Now you can say in a piece of Javascript: if (document.documentElement.dataset.environment == 'test') { // Code that should...
...need to decide, which configuration between different environment works good for you. By default Rails uses these settings for your application: require(:user) raises in all environments ActionController::ParameterMissing if...
After an upgrade to rails 7 I noticed that async reindexing jobs of Searchkick were failing for Model.reindex(mode: :async, wait: true): /home/a_user/.rbenv/versions/3.3.0/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/searchkick-5.3.1/lib/searchkick/relation_indexer.rb:142:in `block in batch_job': undefined...
Rails log files rotate automatically when they reach approx. 100MB: $ ls -lh log/ -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 55M Sep 15 09:54 development.log -rw-r--r-- 1 user...
...This behavior is a built-in feature of Ruby's standard Logger class, which Rails uses by default. To control the maximum file size, set config.log_file_size in your...
As your Rails project grows, you will accumulate a number of small patches. These will usually fix a bug in a gem, or add a method to core classes.
...change_storage.rb fix_cache_ids.rb sanitize_filename_characters.rb ruby/ range/ covers_range.rb array/ dump_to_excel.rb xss_aware_join.rb enumerable/ collect_hash.rb natural_sort.rb string/ to_sort_atoms.rb rails/ find_by_anything.rb form_builder.rb form_for_with_development_errors.rb Note how all patches for standard library classes are in the ruby...
...you most likely want to use this in combination with the ActionDispatch::AssumeSSL middleware (Rails >= 7.1). This middleware makes your app assume that SSL terminates at the load balancer and...
...custom middleware to automatically flag all cookies as secure-only In a Ruby on Rails app you can add a middleware that automatically sets the Secure flag to all server...
Rails 5.2 soft-deprecated the storage of secrets in secrets.yml in favor of a new thing, credentials.yml.enc. Rails 7.1 deprecated secrets and Rails 7.2 finally removed it. In our permissions...
...for existing applications it may be appropriate to keep using secrets.yml. Restoring secrets in Rails 7.2+ Restoring Rails.application.secrets is really simple, thanks to config_for. Simply add this to config/application.rb...
Rails slightly changed the fragment cache implementation from Rails 7.0 to Rails 7.1. Unfortunately, this is incompatible with how Haml 5 patches Action View buffers. I tried turning a String...
...an ActionView::OutputBuffer, but this brought up other issues. Conclusion While we have a Rails 7.2 application successfully running with Haml 5, Rails applications with fragment caching need to upgrade...
If you want someone to be able to access your rails console, but don't want them to be able to do changes you can use the rails console sandbox...
...invoking bin/rails console --sandbox. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-console To let one only access the sandbox rails console you can make use of the command option of OpenSSH: Specifies that the command...
Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a...
Git diffs show the surrounding contexts for diff hunks. It does so by applying regular expressions to find the beginning...
Greg Molnar has written a neat article about creating a single-file Rails app. This is not meant for production use but can be useful to try things out, e.g...
...when hunting down a bug or embedding a Rails app into the tests of a gem. What you do is basically: Put everything (gems, application config, database migrations, models, controllers...
In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %> <%= user.name %> # view <%= render 'user_name' %> <%# this raises an ArgumentError %> Unfortunately, when...
...temporarily remove the annotation to see the correct error. Niklas opened an issue in rails, a fix is merged and will arrive in Rails >7.2.2.2 and...
...posts with a limited number of tags. The following chapters explain different approaches in Rails, how you can assign such an association via HTML forms. In most cases you want...
...with assignable values. The basic setup for all options looks like this: config/routes.rb Rails.application.routes.draw do root "posts#index" resources :posts, except: [:show, :destroy] end db/migrate/20230510093740_create_posts.rb class CreatePosts < ActiveRecord::Migration...
Since Rails 6.1, if we use where.not with multiple attributes, it applies logical NAND (NOT(A) OR NOT(B)) instead of NOR (NOT(A) AND NOT(B)). If you do...
...becomes "Don't send newsletters to trashed admins". User.where.not(role: 'admin', trashed: true) # Before Rails 6.1, with NOR => "SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."role" != 'admin' AND "users"."trashed" != TRUE...
In Rails 8 the behavior of the rails db:migrate command has changed for fresh databases (see PR #52830). Before Rails 8: The command runs all migrations in the folder...
After Rails 8: The command loads the schema file (db/schema.rb or db/schema.sql) if existing and runs all pending migrations in the folder db/migrate/* afterwards This speeds up the command...
...with HSTS. The HSTS part is important. Use a reliable authentication solution, e.g. Compose Rails authentication primitives, Clearance or Devise. Don't start from scratch (see bottom).
From at least Rails 4, the ActionView tag helper turns Array values of HTML options into a single space-separated string. This means you can pass an array to :class...
...scope :all_tags, -> (tags){ where('tags @> ARRAY[?]', tags) } end Document.create(title: "PostgreSQL", tags: ["pg","rails"]) Document.any_tags('pg') Document.all_tags(['pg', 'rails']) Migration: class CreateDocuments < ActiveRecord::Migration def change
Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an attribute as string in the database. And uses JSON for...
...need to configure your Active Record Encryption keys manually in the config/application.rb: config.active_record.encryption.primary_key = Rails.application.secrets.dig(:active_record_encryption, :primary_key) config.active_record.encryption.deterministic_key = Rails.application.secrets.dig(:active_record_encryption, :deterministic_key) config.active_record.encryption.key_derivation...