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+layout: post
+title: "Deferred routes drawing, connect route helper and more"
+categories: news
+author: Wojtek
+og_image: assets/images/this-week-in-rails.png
+published: true
+date: 2024-08-16
+---
+
+Hi, [Wojtek](https://x.com/morgoth85) from this side. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase.
+
+[Defer route drawing](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52353)  
+This change triggers the initial reload of routes either through middleware or when a *url_helpers* method is used.
+Previously, this was executed unconditionally on boot, which could slow down boot time unnecessarily for larger apps with lots of routes.
+Environments like production that have `config.eager_load = true` will continue to eagerly load routes on boot.
+
+[Add connect route helper](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52169)  
+Defines a route that recognizes HTTP CONNECT (and GET) requests.
+More specifically this recognizes HTTP/1 protocol upgrade requests and HTTP/2 CONNECT requests with the protocol pseudo header.
+
+[Bulk insert fixtures on SQLite](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52562)  
+Previously one insert command was executed for each fixture, now they are aggregated in a single bulk insert command.
+
+[Update PostgreSQL adapter extensions to include schema name](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52313)  
+The schema dumper will now include the schema name in generated `enable_extension` statements if they differ from the current schema.
+
+[Add escape_html_entities option to JSON encoder](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51272)  
+This allows for overriding the global configuration found at `ActiveSupport.escape_html_entities_in_json` for specific calls to `to_json`.
+This can be used from controllers in the following manner:
+```ruby
+class MyController < ApplicationController
+  def index
+    render json: { hello: "world" }, escape_html_entities: false
+  end
+end
+```
+
+[Remove racc gem dependency](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52610)  
+`ActionDispatch::Journey::Parser` does not need to be generated by *racc*. This will open the possibility to optimize it in the future.
+
+[Support minitest 5.25+](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52609)  
+Minitest 5.25 changed the signature of one of the internal methods that was used by Rails.
+
+[Enable query log tags by default on development env](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51342)  
+This can be used to trace troublesome SQL statements back to the application code that generated these statements.
+It is also useful when using multiple databases because the query logs can identify which database is being used.
+
+[Fix returning type from encrypted attribute](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52247)  
+Previously it always returned *:text* type.
+
+[Raise when using key which can't respond to #to_sym in encrypted configuration](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51950)  
+As is the case when trying to use an Integer or Float as a key, which is unsupported.
+
+_You can view the whole list of changes [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2024-08-09%7D...main@%7B2024-08-16%7D)._
+_We had [31 contributors](https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20240809-20240816) to the Rails codebase this past week!_
+
+Until next time!
+
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