Who contributed to Rails on August 16, 2026?

6 developers shipped this update, including npezza93, Juanito, ngan, fatkodima, 55728, and Hartley McGuire.

What were the notable Rails updates?

Add encryption support, Batch writes together, and Read the schema cache's primary keys and indexes for many tables at once.

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SOLID_CABLE SHIPS ENCRYPTION, RAILS CUTS SCHEMA CACHE READS IN HALF

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:55 UTC on August 16, 2026 · About Rails

6 people shipped this

npezza93 @npezza93 2 cited

Juanito @JuanitoFatas 1 cited

ngan @ngan 1 cited

55728 @55728 1 cited

fatkodima @fatkodima

Hartley McGuire @skipkayhil

Solid Cable now encrypts messages at rest [ref:1], while Rails optimizes schema caching to batch database queries across entire tables instead of reading them one at a time [ref:8].

Nick Pezza landed encryption support in Solid Cable [1], closing a long-standing gap for teams running Rails' SQLite-backed cable adapter in production. The same developer also shipped a write-batching optimization [2] that groups writes together with a sized queue, reducing context switching on the database layer. On the Rails side, a schema cache optimization [3] teaches the dumper to read primary keys and indexes for multiple tables in a single statement rather than looping through one table per statement. On a 204-table MySQL schema, this cuts primary key and index reads dramatically. Rails also corrected documentation for CollectionProxy#delete_all [4], which was showing an array return value when it actually returns a count. Rails/ai-evals cleaned up a dead link in the README [5].

Action items

→ Update Solid Cable if you need at-rest encryption for production WebSocket traffic rails/solid_cable [plan]
→ Pull latest Rails to benefit from schema cache batching on your next schema dump rails/rails [monitor]

References

[1] Add encryption support ↗ rails/solid_cable
[2] Batch writes together ↗ rails/solid_cable
[3] Read the schema cache's primary keys and indexes for many tables at once ↗ rails/rails
[4] Fix the `CollectionProxy#delete_all` documentation return value ↗ rails/rails
[5] Fix announcement link in README.md ↗ rails/ai-evals

Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on August 16, 2026?: Solid Cable now encrypts messages at rest [ref:1], while Rails optimizes schema caching to batch database queries across entire tables instead of reading them one at a time [ref:8]. In total, 7 commits and 5 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Rails on August 16, 2026?: 6 developers shipped this update, including npezza93, Juanito, ngan, fatkodima, 55728, and Hartley McGuire.
What were the notable Rails updates?: Add encryption support, Batch writes together, and Read the schema cache's primary keys and indexes for many tables at once.

Rails cuts schema cache dumps in half for large databases

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ruby 18 shipped

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Rails is systematically freezing mutable configuration to unlock ractor concurrency, while schema dumping gets a massive speed boost that slashes database round trips by orders of magnitude on large schemas.

ruby 23 shipped

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ruby 35 shipped

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ruby 39 shipped

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