Who contributed to Rails on July 28, 2026?

4 developers shipped this update, including Mike Dalessio, Jeremy Daer, Trevor Turk, and rafael-pissardo.

What were the notable Rails updates?

Lease connections in DistinctValues instead of calling deprecated `connection`, Use with_connection in DistinctValues, and Add --only-recurring to run just the recurring scheduler.

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SOLID_QUEUE FIXES RAILS 8.1 CONNECTION CHECKOUT CLASH

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:55 UTC on July 28, 2026 · About Rails

4 people shipped this

Mike Dalessio @flavorjones 2 cited

Trevor Turk @trevorturk 2 cited

rafael-pissardo @rafael-pissardo 1 cited

Jeremy Daer @jeremy

Solid Queue patched a critical incompatibility with Rails 8.1's permanent connection checkout mode that breaks the new DistinctValues module.

The issue surfaces when `config.active_record.permanent_connection_checkout = :disallowed` is set: bare calls to `connection` resolve to the deprecated ActiveRecord::Base.connection and raise errors [1]. Solid Queue's DistinctValues module, introduced recently, made those direct calls and broke under the stricter Rails 8.1 configuration [2]. The fix wraps connection access in `connection_pool.with_connection`, following the established pattern from prior work [1]. In parallel, Solid Queue gained `--only-recurring` to explicitly run just the recurring scheduler in isolation [3], replacing the empty workers/dispatchers workaround and mirroring the existing `--skip-recurring` option. Rails core cleaned up a Markdown doc check that clashed with Rubocop's formatting rules on frozen string literals [4], resolving a conflict between what the linter wanted and what the doc validator would accept [5].

Action items

→ Update Solid Queue to the latest patch if you use permanent_connection_checkout = :disallowed on Rails 8.1 rails/solid_queue [immediate]
→ Review if --only-recurring simplifies your scheduler deployment model rails/solid_queue [plan]

References

[1] Lease connections in DistinctValues instead of calling deprecated `connection` rails/solid_queue
[2] Use with_connection in DistinctValues ↗ rails/solid_queue
[3] Add --only-recurring to run just the recurring scheduler ↗ rails/solid_queue
[4] Fix Markdown doc check rails/rails
[5] Fix Markdown doc check ↗ rails/rails

Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on July 28, 2026?: Solid Queue patched a critical incompatibility with Rails 8.1's permanent connection checkout mode that breaks the new DistinctValues module. In total, 5 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Rails on July 28, 2026?: 4 developers shipped this update, including Mike Dalessio, Jeremy Daer, Trevor Turk, and rafael-pissardo.
What were the notable Rails updates?: Lease connections in DistinctValues instead of calling deprecated `connection`, Use with_connection in DistinctValues, and Add --only-recurring to run just the recurring scheduler.

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