Ruby on Rails: Ractors Get Real, and a Data Integrity Bug Surfaces Three Times
Rails continues laying groundwork for Ractor support across schema handling, view paths, and browser callbacks, while a serious PostgreSQL bug — foreign key triggers staying disabled after an error — drew three separate fix attempts in one day.
Duration: PT2M36S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ruby on Rails.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ruby on Rails
- Published: 2026-09-02T13:15:40Z
- Audio duration: PT2M36S
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Good morning. It's September 2nd, 2026, and this is your Ruby on Rails briefing.
The clearest pattern today is Rails pushing hard toward Ractor compatibility. Gannon McGibbon's PR 58578 restructures Active Record's schema context so its attributes live in a separate object that can be embedded per-Ractor, letting schema state evaluate lazily rather than being locked to one execution context.…
The second theme is a genuine data integrity risk. Lukasedw opened three near-identical pull requests — 58632, 58634, and 58635 — all targeting the same bug: PostgreSQL's "disable referential integrity" method turns off triggers across every table, but if the block it wraps raises an exception, those triggers never…
Elsewhere, PR 58641 closes a correctness gap in "has one, dependent: destroy" associations: if the old record refuses to destroy itself, Rails now raises instead of silently leaving two rows pointing at the same association. And PR 58639 fixes an ordering bug in fetch_multi when a local cache is active, restoring…
On maintenance: Yasuo Honda's PR 58636 removes stale test stubs that were masking real Trilogy adapter failures in CI.
What's next: watch which of the three referential…
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