This week's top contributors

This week's top contributor is @senny! Please join me in thanking Yves and all these awesome people who dedicated their time to help improve Rails! <3 <3 <3

Opportunity Scholarship for RailsConf

Today is the last day to apply for the opportunity scholarship, don't miss the deadline!

Code Ping Pong with DHH

In case you missed it, DHH has been doing some "code ping pong" on hacker news lately. Join the fun by submitting your own code snippet!

New Stuff

Option to customize `rake notes`

You can now teach rake notes to pick up annotations in any file.

Multi-touch™ support in Active Record

The touch method now accepts multiple attributes.

New deprecation in Active Support

If you have been using superclass_delegating_accessor in your Gems, you should switch to class_attribute instead.

Dropping custom tables after each test

Another step towards order-independent tests.

Fixed

Random CI failures

This one has been annoying Rails contributors for a while, very glad to see it fixed!

Single-character fix

Turns out a single-character makes a huge difference!                                                  

Caching variant templates

Second-last blocker for the 4.1 milestone, just one more to go!

Reclaiming DB connection from dead threads

Also check out the interesting discussions and detective work on the corresponding github issue.

Caveats for the new JSON cookie jar in 4.1

Be careful what you store inside your cookies/session if you are using the new JSON cookie jar.

One more thing...

Book your hotel room for RailsConf

Coming to RailsConf? Only 9 days left to book your hotel room at the discounted rate!

Wrapping up

And that's it for this issue of This week in Rails, I hope you enjoyed it! As always, there are a lot more interesting things happening on Rails than I can cover here, so I encourage you to check them out!

If you have any feedback for me, please feel free to email me or let me know on twitter!

Thank you for reading! <3 <3 <3