Rails 8.1: Job continuations, structured events, local CI
14 hours ago
- #Ruby
- #Web Development
- #Rails
- Rails 8.1 includes contributions from over 500 contributors and 2500 commits.
- Applications like Shopify and HEY have been running Rails 8.1 in production for months.
- Active Job Continuations allow long-running jobs to resume from the last completed step after a restart.
- The new Event Reporter provides structured event logging in Rails applications.
- Local CI improvements make running large test suites faster on developer machines.
- Rails now supports responding to markdown requests directly.
- Kamal can now fetch secrets from the encrypted Rails credentials store.
- Active Record associations can be marked as deprecated with customizable reporting modes.
- Kamal 2.8 supports local registries for basic deploys, simplifying initial setup.