Chris Oliver - Powerful Rails Features You Might Not Know - Rails World 2023

An unbelievable amount of features are packed into Rails making it one of the most powerful web frameworks you can use. ‪@GorailsTV‬ creator Chris Oliver takes a look at some little known, underused, and new things in Rails 7.
A few of the topics covered:
ActiveRecord features like “excluding”, strict_loading, virtual columns, with_options, attr_readonly, etc
ActiveStorage named variants
ActionText embedding any database record
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.
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