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RAILS EMBRACES HTTP QUERY METHOD, KILLS LEGACY WORKAROUNDS

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Magno Gouveia gmcgibbon Hartley McGuire Svyatoslav Kryukov robzolkos Robby Russell Claudio B.
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Magno Gouveia @magnogouveia 1 cited gmcgibbon @gmcgibbon 1 cited Hartley McGuire @skipkayhil 1 cited Svyatoslav Kryukov @skryukov 1 cited robzolkos @robzolkos 1 cited Robby Russell @robbyrussell Claudio B. @claudiob

Rails just registered RFC 10008's QUERY method for structured queries too large for URL strings, while stripping out deprecated Marshal workarounds that bloat the codebase.

The headline story lands in rails/rails: HTTP QUERY method support [1] is now wired through Action Pack, letting developers route complex filters and GraphQL queries through request bodies instead of query strings. You get `request.query?` checks in your controllers and native `query` routing in config/routes.rb. Meanwhile, the same commit batch strips "missing" workarounds from Active Record [2], cleaning up performance debt left over from the 6.1 Marshal format. Since that format no longer exists, the library no longer needs defensive `method_missing` checks for virtual attributes, which has a measurable positive effect on performance. On the Ractor front, ActiveSupport callbacks are now ractor-safe [3], making user-supplied procs shareable across Ractor boundaries. The Rails website launched a new /ai page [4] with sortable model benchmarks, token efficiency comparisons, and interactive charts showing how different LLMs perform on coding tasks. Behind that page sits rails/ai-evals [5], a new benchmark framework tracking agent performance across real-world Ruby development patterns.

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Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on August 14, 2026?
Rails just registered RFC 10008's QUERY method for structured queries too large for URL strings, while stripping out deprecated Marshal workarounds that bloat the codebase. In total, 22 commits and 13 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Rails on August 14, 2026?
7 developers shipped this update, including Magno Gouveia, gmcgibbon, Hartley McGuire, Svyatoslav Kryukov, Robby Russell, robzolkos, and Claudio B..
What were the notable Rails updates?
Add support for the HTTP QUERY method, Remove "missing" workarounds from Active Record, and Make callbacks ractor-safe.
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$ log @rails --recent

Attribute-read regression fixed, decimal numericality corrected 79 shipped in_order_of double-serializes values, id_value alias restored 50 shipped Inlined attribute writers, leaner ActiveRecord::Key 31 shipped MySQL 5.6 falls off the support floor as Arel stops rebuilding literals 27 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl standardizes low-precision rollout kernels on DeepGEMM Agent Security Guardrails exposes hooks over HTTP, certifi floor raised in agent-scan

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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