Rails 5.0.1 has been released!

Rails 5.0.1 has been released just in time for the Christmas. Do give it a spin as it has some bug fixes and improvements over the 5.0 release. 

Rails is ready to welcome Ruby 2.4

In other news, Ruby 2.4 is released today. Rails master is compatible with Ruby 2.4. It is even being tested with Ruby 2.4.

This weeks 🎅 contributors

This week, 12 awesome people contributed to Rails. We also had one person contributing for the first time. Welcome aboard!

Document and update API for skip_parameter_encoding

This commit allows to encode all params of a controller action as ASCII-8BIT. Useful when the data is likely to be binary data or file systems related data. User is allowed to encode certain parameters to different encoding as per requirement.

Fix loading of fixtures for models with same table names but different databases

Rails 5 had introduced a regression related to loading of fixtures of tables with same name but used with different databases. It is fixed now with this commit.

Only default the response charset when it is first set while sending files

Earlier, even if the charset was explicitly cleared out, it was being set again. Now we check and set it only for the first time.

Do not clear HTTP_COOKIES header after request in controller tests

Before this change, any modification to cookies in the controller tests setup was not getting reflected in the actual controller action. Now it is fixed and the changes done to cookies in the test setup are reflected properly. This was originally reported as an RSpec issue.