Who contributed to Rails on August 22, 2026?

9 developers shipped this update, including seuros, Gannon McGibbon, Jean Boussier, viralpraxis, jeremy, Amanda Perino, claudiob, and rosa, and 1 more.

What were the notable Rails updates?

v1.7.0 - batches, Refine batch support after a full review, and Batch Support.

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Solid Queue ships batches, Marcel slashes detection reads 10x

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:55 UTC on August 22, 2026 · About Rails

9 people shipped this

jeremy @jeremy 2 cited

rosa @rosa 2 cited

seuros @seuros 1 cited

viralpraxis @viralpraxis 1 cited

Amanda Perino @AmandaPerino 1 cited

claudiob @claudiob 1 cited

jpcamara @jpcamara 1 cited

Gannon McGibbon @gmcgibbon

Jean Boussier @byroot

Solid Queue finally delivers the job-batch feature you've been waiting for, while Marcel undoes a detection-cost regression that made every JPEG probe 10x slower.

Solid Queue v1.7.0 lands with full batch support [1], bringing Sidekiq Pro and GoodJob-style coordination to Rails' queue: batches track completion and fire on_finish, on_success, or on_failure callbacks, with logical job counting that treats retries as one job [2]. Production-app tested and refined after review, this is the upgrade for anyone orchestrating multi-job workflows [3]. Meanwhile, Marcel restored its common-type magic fast path [4], cutting JPEG detection from 255 reads back to 25 and PNG from 256 to 26, after a CR2 fix had inadvertently pushed every common type behind Tika's 121 higher-ranked matchers [5]. In rails/rails, a fix for lazy-loaded routes adds a method_missing pair to MountedHelpers so calling main_app or an engine helper before routes draw no longer raises NoMethodError [6], and ActiveRecord's StatementCache gets a fix for async execution with out-of-range bind values [7]. The website drops workshops from the FAQ [8] and posts this week's Rails summary [9]. Across 4 repos: 17 commits, 7 PRs, 1 release.

Action items

→ Upgrade solid_queue to v1.7.0 to use batches in production rails/solid_queue [immediate]
→ Pull the Marcel fast-path fix to restore pre-regression detection performance rails/marcel [plan]
→ Review the lazy mounted-helper fix for apps that call helpers before route load rails/rails [monitor]

References

[1] v1.7.0 - batches ↗ rails/solid_queue
[2] Refine batch support after a full review rails/solid_queue
[3] Batch Support ↗ rails/solid_queue
[4] Restore the common-type magic fast path without preempting subtype matchers ↗ rails/marcel
[5] Restore the common-type magic fast path without preempting subtype matchers rails/marcel
[6] Load routes lazily when a mounted helper is called ↗ rails/rails
[7] Fix async `ActiveRecord::StatementCache` execution with out-of-range bind values rails/rails
[8] Update faq.yml rails/website
[9] This week in Rails (Friday, August 21, 2026) (#726) rails/website

Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on August 22, 2026?: Solid Queue finally delivers the job-batch feature you've been waiting for, while Marcel undoes a detection-cost regression that made every JPEG probe 10x slower. In total, 17 commits, 7 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Rails on August 22, 2026?: 9 developers shipped this update, including seuros, Gannon McGibbon, Jean Boussier, viralpraxis, jeremy, Amanda Perino, claudiob, and rosa, and 1 more.
What were the notable Rails updates?: v1.7.0 - batches, Refine batch support after a full review, and Batch Support.

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