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Let’s explore this week’s Rails news.</p> <p><a href="https://rubyonrails.org/2024/11/7/rails-8-no-paas-required">Rails 8 has been released</a><br /> Along with the announcement, you can read the <a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.0">release changelog</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/53551">Action Controller guide improvements review</a><br /> Along with the improvements, there will be the new guide “Action Controller Advanced Topics”. It’s awaiting community feedback.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/53139">Support disabling transactional tests per database</a><br /> A test class can now override the default <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">use_transactional_tests</code> setting for individual databases, which can be useful if some databases need their current state to be accessible to an external process while tests are running.</p> <div class="language-ruby highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">MostlyTransactionalTest</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="no">ActiveSupport</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="no">TestCase</span> <span class="nb">self</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">use_transactional_tests</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kp">true</span> <span class="n">skip_transactional_tests_for_database</span> <span class="ss">:shared</span> <span class="k">end</span> </code></pre></div></div> <p><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/53520">Fix running with BACKTRACE=1 truncating gem paths</a><br /> Restores gem paths back to their original, full form, which makes it easier to debug.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/53546">Fix deprecation warning caused by DST</a><br /> Clarifies the logic for detecting whether the current Time value is in the system local timezone (i.e. that getlocal would be a no-op).</p> <p><em>You can view the whole list of changes <a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2024-11-01%7D...main@%7B2024-11-08%7D">here</a>.</em> <em>We had <a href="https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20241101-20241108">22 contributors</a> to the Rails codebase this past week!</em></p> <p>Until next time!</p> <p><em><a href="https://world.hey.com/this.week.in.rails">Subscribe</a> to get these updates mailed to you.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer common-background--grey common-padding--bottom common-padding--top common-shape--top-white-up-left"> <div class="footer__logo"><a href="/" aria-label="Ruby on Rails"></a></div> </footer> </body> </html>