This week in Rails (Friday, June 6, 2025) (#511)

Author: claudiob

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+layout: post
+title: "Improving Rails 8 week after week"
+categories: news
+author: Claudio Baccigalupo
+og_image: assets/images/this-week-in-rails.png
+published: true
+date: 2025-06-06
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+Hi, it's [Claudio Baccigalupo](https://github.com/claudiob). Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase.
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+[Move PostgreSQL Guide into the API guides](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55135)  
+A new documentation PR is up for community review: information from the PostgreSQL guide has been migrated into the API docs, and the Active Record guide has been updated to be more database agnostic.
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+[Follow up on Active Job Continuations](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55151)  
+Continuations were [added last week](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55127) to Active Job and are improved this week by [these](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55151) [PRs](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55145).
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+[Better progress account for Action Text uploads](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55157)  
+The progress bar displayed when upload a file with Action Text is now improved to account for server processing.
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+[Always fully clear current attributes](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55139)  
+Regular instance variables in `Current` subclasses weren’t cleared and could leak across requests before this PR.
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+[Load tests prior to when Minitest load plugins](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55140)  
+This fixes an [issue](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/54741#issuecomment-2922863186) that affected libraries like [minitest-focus](https://github.com/minitest/minitest-focus)
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+[Don't run unit tests twice on GitHub](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55136)  
+The GitHub Actions configuration is updated so unit test do not unnecessarily run within the system tests task.
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+[Return empty body for HEAD requests in exceptions](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55149)  
+This is required by `Rack::Lint` (per RFC9110) in case of `PublicExceptions` or `DebugExceptions`, 
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+[Keep the original job object when using retry_job](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55141)  
+When a job is retried, the original `scheduled_at`, `queue_name` and `priority` will be used.
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+_You can view the whole list of changes [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2025-05-30%7D...main@%7B2025-06-06%7D)._
+_We had [12 contributors](https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20250530-20250606) to the Rails codebase this past week!_
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+Until next time!
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