Quite often in our Rails application, we need to retrieve records sorted in a specific order. For example, in an e-commerce application, we want to retrieve the customer orders in the order of "Completed, Cancelled, In Transit, Pending" statuses. The way to do it is to write an explicit SQL query. Starting Rails 7, this can be achieved simply with the help of the in_order_of method for ActiveRecord::QueryMethods and Enumerable. This article explains how we can use the in_order_of method to sort data in Rails 7. 1. ActiveRecord::QueryMethods#in_order_ofConsider we have a

Rails 7.1 now allows you to tweak the destroy_async behavior by allowing you to destroy the dependent associations in multiple batches.

Rails 7.1 introduces a method authenticate_by, used with has_secure_password to prevent timing-based enumeration attacks.

Turbo provides the most basic building blocks for building Hotwire application. In this article, let's learn more about its features.

debug is Ruby's new default debugger included in Ruby 3.1. This new debugger has replaced byebug in Rails 7. Not only does debug provide us with a wide range of functionality, but it also provides some advanced features. In this article, we will explore and understand a few advanced features of debug. 1. Seamless integration with VSCode Below steps can be followed to integrate debug gem in VSCode. Install extension VSCode rdbg Ruby Debugger - Visual Studio Marketplace in your VSCode.Open the file you want to debug in the VSCode.Register the breakpoint by clicking on the line

Rails framework is famous for developers' happiness and making things simpler due to its magic, provided developers follow proper conventions. To extend this magic and to make things simple further, Rails 7 has introduced a change with this PR after which, inverse_of would be inferred automatically for model associations having scopes. In this article, we'll dive into understanding it with examples. Let's say we have a Project model with many assigned tasks. # app/models/project.rb class Project < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :tasks, -> { assigned } end # app/models/task.rb class Task < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to

Rails 7 allows to fetch data from multiple databases for a has_many/has_one:through association using the disabled_joins option.

We often come across use cases in a Rails application where we need to create, update, or delete records in bulk. Most ORMs naively update or insert each record individually by executing N+1 database queries. To address this problem, Rails 6 added the upsert_all method that provides a faster way to update and insert a large number of records. upsert_all uses a single SQL INSERT statement for updating/inserting the records. And it does so without instantiating any models. Nor does it trigger any Active Record callbacks or validations ! How upsert_all works? If we check the

Rails 7 adds ComparisonValidator to compare and validate numeric, date and string values. It provides comparisons options that accept value, procs, or symbol.

Rails 7 puts forward an alternative approach to bundling JS called Import Maps. Read this blog to find out more about it.