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This Week in Rails

This week in Ruby on Rails covers several Active Record and Rails improvements: PostgreSQL minimum version bumped to 10.0, add_column now raises an error when null: true is set on primary keys, extending on ActiveRecord::Relation is now up to twice as fast, a bug with nested with_connection and lease_connection sticky flags is fixed, and a TTOU signal hang when ffmpeg is spawned for ActiveStorage video previews is resolved. Also announced: Rails World 2026 speaker applications and the 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey.

Active Record gets better every week