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A lot of bug fixing and a couple great improvements going on the Rails environment this week. Read on for more details.

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This week’s Rails contributors

31 contributors have helped improve Rails this week. Consider taking some time next week to make a contribution to an open-source project :) (I keep telling that to myself every day)

Improved

Batch touch parent records

YAY! I bet many projects have been looking forward to this improvement. After a couple discussions and experiments touching is finally limited to the fewest possible number of queries.

Controller actions default to head :no_content if no template exists

After all these years DHH is still pushing for better defaults on Rails. Next major version will assume everything went fine if a controller action has no template. I can’t see why not.

Fixed

Non-ascii characters in URLs on Windows

We are a few months into 2015, but these encoding-related problems are still haunting us! With this fix, Windows apps will stop blowing up on strange URLs. Yet another example of how awesome the Ruby and Rails community can be.

Error when defining callbacks named run

An apparently nice performance improvement has caused a regression on the callback system. Plus according to new benchmarks it seems the original performance improvement is no longer relevant.

force_ssl without session_store

config.force_ssl = true now works properly even when you have disabled the session store.

Uniqueness validations and out-of-range integers on PostgreSQL

Another patch to make Active Record API rock solid.

One More Thing™

Redcarpet 3.2.2 has an XSS vulnerability

I haven’t seen much noise about this vulnerability on the interwebs but just in case. If you have this markdown parser on any of your projects you should probably bump it whenever you have a chance.

Wrapping up

That’s all for This week in Rails. As always, there are more changes than we have room to cover here, but feel free to check them out yourself!

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