twir-2025-04-11

Author: zzak

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+title: "Refactoring Active Record Signed ID verifiers"
+categories: news
+author: zzak
+og_image: assets/images/this-week-in-rails.png
+published: true
+date: 2025-04-11
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+Hi, it's [zzak](https://github.com/zzak). Hopefully everyone got their Rails World CFPs in on time! Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase.
+
+[Allow allocated Active Records to lookup associations](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54892)  
+Previously, the association cache isn't setup on allocated record objects, so association lookups will crash. 
+Test frameworks like mocha use allocate to check for stubbable instance methods, which can trigger an association lookup.  
+
+[ActiveRecord Signed ID with global Rails.application.message_verifiers](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54422)  
+This change ensures a unified configuration for all message verifiers, making it easier to rotate secrets and upgrade signing algorithms. 
+See [`message_verifiers`](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Application.html#method-i-message_verifiers) for more details.  
+
+[Allow enabling unencrypted data fallback at a per-attribute level](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51100)  
+Previously the global configuration for `support_unencrypted_data` could be overridden on a per-attribute bases to disable it, but not the other way around.  
+
+[Fix "create_or_find_by" not rolling back a transaction](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54845)  
+This change addresses an edge case when rolling back a transaction inside a nested transaction would be silently ignored.  
+
+[Add support for filtering notes by tag in "/rails/info/notes"](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54876)  
+When viewing the Rails notes browser, you can now filter by tag, like "FIXME," "TODO," and "OPTIMIZE".  
+
+[Fix "Enumerable#sole" for infinite collections](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54341)  
+This PR optimizes the `Enumerable#sole` method to handle infinite collections more efficiently.
+
+
+_You can view the whole list of changes [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2025-04-04%7D...main@%7B2025-04-11%7D)._
+_We had [15 contributors](https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20250404-20250411) to the Rails codebase this past week!_
+
+Until next time!
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