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This Week in Rails

Weekly Rails update covering: updated documentation guides (Asset Pipeline, Layouts & Rendering, Caching, Active Job Basics) open for community review; reminder to apply for the Rails at Scale Summit by May 8; new Rails apps now enable frozen string literals by default via config/bootsnap.rb with corresponding RuboCop configuration; a bug fix for find_signed raising ArgumentError on models with composite primary keys; and a fix allowing aliases for unions in the from clause that previously caused PostgreSQL errors.

This Week in Rails: May 1, 2026