Thanks to the 41 people who loved Rails this week by contributing to its source code. A special kiss to the 14 of you who contributed for the first time!

You heard that Rails 5 will be able to generate API-only applications. Now you can learn all the details by reading this new chapter added to the Rails Guides.

The source code of turbolinks has been moved to a new GitHub organization, with plans to release more turbolinks-related libraries in the future.

Need to add a numeric column to a database table? You can now use t.numeric :foo which is a lovely alias of t.decimal :foo.

You can now test a JSON POST request with post articles_path, as: :json rather than adding helpers like post_json. And you can also test the response as parsed JSON with parsed_body.

RubyBench analyzes every commit made to rails/rails so performance regressions can be rapidly discovered… and fixed!

We love commits like this one which improve the performance of Rails and use benchmark/ips to measure their impact.

The environment variable introduced in config/puma.rb is now reused in the database configuration to avoid connection timeout errors.