Rails 6.1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements, Strict Loading, Destroy Associations in Background, Error Objects, and more! Rails 6.1 has been released and wow does it have a lot of great stuff! We’ve been hard at work these past few months implementing improvements to multiple databases, adding support for destroying associations in jobs instead of in-memory, turning errors into objects,

Rails 5.1: Loving JavaScript, System Tests, Encrypted Secrets, and more In celebration of the 12th RailsConf in Phoenix, Arizona this week, we’re proud to announce that Rails 5.1 is ready in its final form! We’ve spent over 4,100 commits since Rails 5.0 making everything EASIER, SIMPLER, and, uhhh, FUNNER? (That’s a RailsConf joke). The highlight reel hasn’t really changed since the first beta, bu

Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and so much more After six months of polish, four betas, and two release candidates, Rails 5.0 is finally done! It’s taken hundreds of contributors and thousands of commits to get here, but what a destination: Rails 5.0 is without a doubt the best, most complete version of Rails yet. It’s incredible that this community is still going so strong after so long. Than