Rails is great

A critical issue that appears to affect many users has been reported this week. The core team has acknowledged the report and has plans to address this down the road. Stay tuned.

Help document Rails 4.2!

Many of you have responded to the call for help to improve the 4.2 documentations over the last week. Thank you so much, please keep it coming! <3

This Week's Rails Contributors

So far, 34 contributors have helped improve Rails this week, 6 of them being first-time contributors. Welcome to the team!!! <3 <3 <3

`try` can now be used without a block argument

Yet another way to try nil things in Rails 4.2.                                                                                                    

Trying not to `try`

While methods like try provides great convenience, they do come at a cost (as Aaron would say, allocations aren't free!) that adds up in when used in hot paths.

While the cost is usually outweighted by the convenience in application code, it's always good to measure all the things in order to make informed tradeoff decisions (learn how)!

Regression in 4.1.6 / 4.0.10 RC1 fixed

With this fix, Rails should no longer uglify your queries on PostgreSQL. Assuming we don't find other regressions, you should expect another RC dropping soon™.

Logging with blocks

In case you missed it, this pull request pointed out that it is considered best practice to pass log messages using the block form when there are interpolated code in your log messages.