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+title: "Rails 7.2 released, Thruster by default for Rails 8, new Guides PRs, and much more!"
+categories: news
+author: vipulnsward
+og_image: assets/images/this-week-in-rails.png
+published: true
+date: 2024-08-12
+---
+
+Hey everyone, Happy Monday! 
+[Vipul](https://www.saeloun.com/team/vipul) here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails (from last week 😅). Let's dive in.
+
+[Rails 7.2 has been released](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/10/Rails-7-2-0-has-been-released)  
+Rails 7.2 has been released!
+
+Head over to the [release post](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/10/Rails-7-2-0-has-been-released) for more details, 
+but in short, it ships with better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and much much more!
+
+
+**New Guides Pull Requests for review**  
+Two new Guides Pull Requests are now open for community review. If you are well versed in Rails Routing, Active Record Associations, please review and submit your feedback here:
+
+- [Rails Routing PR](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52521)
+- [Active Record Associations PR](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52523)
+
+[Use Thruster by default for Rails 8](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51793)  
+[Thruster](https://github.com/basecamp/thruster/) is an asset compression and caching proxy with X-Sendfile acceleration that speeds up simple production-ready deployments of Rails applications. 
+It runs alongside the Puma and usually behind the Kamal 2 proxy, which offers HTTP/2 and SSL auto-certificates, 
+to help your app run efficiently and safely on the open Internet.
+
+This change configures the use of Thruster in the Dockerfile by default, starting with Rails 8.
+
+[Speed up `ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper::Scope#[]` by merging frame hashes](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52525)  
+Before this change, `ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper::Scope#[]` lookup was iterating an array, which means access time wasn't constant, and did not actually behave like a hash.
+
+This Pull Request changes the scope implementation to make the lookup faster by just merging inherited values into the immediate hash. 
+
+This helps avoid needless iterations for deeply nested routes leading it to be **~1.2x** faster.
+
+[Remove redundant Puma configuration settings](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52541)  
+This Pull Request removes the following redundant environment settings in `puma.rb`:
+
+```ruby
+# Specifies the `environment` that Puma will run in.
+rails_env = ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV", "development")
+environment rails_env
+
+case rails_env
+when "production"
+  preload_app!
+when "development"
+  # Specifies a very generous `worker_timeout` so that the worker
+  # isn't killed by Puma when suspended by a debugger.
+  worker_timeout 3600
+end
+```
+
+These changes address recent Puma upgrades that-
+
+- Puma now automatically sets its environment from RAILS_ENV.
+- `preload_app!` is automatically set when in cluster mode.
+- `worker_timeout` is a cluster mode feature, and we don't run that in dev.
+
+Another Puma change is that `WEB_CONCURRENCY` is automatically used from ENV and is now parsed directly, so it can't be extended with "auto" in the Puma config.
+
+[This related change](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/142e6ab2c1e3cb7df4b82e20e2a1cd676b755714) addresses this issue and removes the redundant dynamic setting for the value from `puma.rb`
+
+[Improve default action mailer configuration](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52513)  
+This Pull Request introduces a few improvements to the default Action Mailer configuration setup:
+
+- Suggests a default SMTP server configuration in a comment in `production.rb`.
+- Sets a default example.com host for mailer links in production too.
+- Uses the same comment style in all the env settings for mailer host.
+
+[Make automatic detection of processor count in default Puma config optional and non-default](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52533)  
+Using `Concurrent.available_processor_count` helper by default in `puma.rb` template might result in incorrect configurations on some cloud hosts with shared CPUs or platforms that inaccurately report CPU counts.
+
+This Pull Request, changes this default configuration to be optional and non-default.
+
+[Let allow_browser allow bots](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52531)  
+The `allow_browser` feature blocks requests with user agents that don't match a specific set of browser versions. This runs the risk of preventing sites from being crawled by some search engines.
+
+This change fixes this behavior to bypass these version restrictions in the case of certain crawlers and bots.
+
+[Allow disable_extension to be called with schema-qualified name for PostgreSQL](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52452)  
+This change allows `disable_extension` to be called with schema-qualified name for PostgreSQL.
+
+This adds parity with `enable_extension`, the `disable_extension` method can be called with a schema-qualified
+name (e.g. `disable_extension "myschema.pgcrypto"`). Note that PostgreSQL's `DROP EXTENSION` does not
+actually take a schema name (unlike `CREATE EXTENSION`), so the resulting SQL statement will only name
+the extension, e.g. `DROP EXTENSION IF EXISTS "pgcrypto"`.
+
+_You can view the whole list of changes [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2024-07-13%7D...main@%7B2024-07-19%7D)._  
+_We had [36 contributors](https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20240803-20240809) to the Rails codebase past week!_
+
+Until next time!
+
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