Namaste everyone! This is Prathamesh bringing you the latest news from the Rails world with some rain and chai from Pune.

Rails 5.2.1 is out in the wild

Rails 5.2.1 is released. Give it a try and check out all the awesome features.

Better error handling of Active Storage adapters

Now, the Active Storage service adapter names can be lower case or upper case. Also, a nice error message is printed if the service adapter class can’t be loaded.

Support for skipping caching of nil entries

While caching data from external services, sometimes we may get nil values. Most probably we don’t want to cache them. Here is an option skip_nil: true/false to skip caching of such entries.

Fix the issue of build not getting called on extension for has_many association

Earlier, the extended build method was not called properly for the has_many association which was being accepted by using accepts_nested_attributes_for.

This issue is fixed now.

19 people contributed to Rails this week. Four of them contributed for the first time! Do you also want to join them? There might be some open issues you can try tackling?

See all the changes  from last week here and stay tuned for next week. 👋