An unbelievable amount of features are packed into Rails making it one of the most powerful web frameworks you can use. @GorailsTV creator Chris Oliver takes a look at some little known, underused, and new things in Rails 7. A few of the topics covered: - ActiveRecord features like “excluding”, strict_loading, virtual columns, with_options, attr_readonly, etc - ActiveStorage named variants - ActionText embedding any database record - Custom Turbo Stream Actions with Hotwire - Turbo Native authentication with your Rails backend - ActiveSupport features like truncate_words - Rails 7.1’s new features: authentication, normalizes, logging background enqueue callers, and more. Slides are available at: https://gorails.com/blog/rails-world-2023-powerful-rails-features-you-might-not-know-talk-slides Links: https://rubyonrails.org/ https://rubyonrails.org/2023/10/5/Rails-7-1-0-has-been-released #RailsWorld #RubyonRails #Rails7 #opensource #OSS #Rails #ActiveRecord #ActiveStorage #activesupport Thank you Dell APEX for sponsoring the editing and post-production of these videos. Visit them at: https://dell.com/APEX