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This Week in Rails

Weekly changelog for Ruby on Rails covering changes merged in the week of March 20, 2026. Highlights include batching SQL statements when creating tables for improved schema loading performance, deprecation of require_dependency ahead of Rails 9 removal, new MySQL lock and algorithm options for DDL operations (add_index, remove_index, add_column, change_column, remove_column, rename_column), Dockerfile build performance optimizations for new Rails apps, PostgreSQL RESET command support in read-only query contexts, and Action Text changes allowing block children in editor elements alongside a value attribute.

This Week in Rails: March 20, 2026