Updates for Rails v8.1

Author: david-yz-liu

Changelog.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 - Updated the grade breakdown summary table to use `@tanstack/react-table` v8 (#7800)
 - Internationalized custom model validation error messages by replacing hardcoded English strings with i18n symbol keys (#7805)
 - Changed model validation errors to use built-in error key resolution instead of inline `I18n.t` calls (#7806)
+- Upgraded to Rails v8.1 (#7815)
 
 ## [v2.9.2]
 

bin/dev

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
-exec "./bin/rails", "server", *ARGV
+exec './bin/rails', 'server', *ARGV

bin/setup

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ FileUtils.chdir APP_ROOT do
 
   puts '\n== Preparing database =='
   system! 'bin/rails db:prepare'
+  system! 'bin/rails db:reset' if ARGV.include?('--reset')
 
   puts '\n== Removing old logs and tempfiles =='
   system! 'bin/rails log:clear tmp:clear'

config/application.rb

@@ -17,7 +17,12 @@
 module Markus
   class Application < Rails::Application
     # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version
-    config.load_defaults 8.0
+    config.load_defaults 8.1
+
+    # Please, add to the `ignore` list any other `lib` subdirectories that do
+    # not contain `.rb` files, or that should not be reloaded or eager loaded.
+    # Common ones are `templates`, `generators`, or `middleware`, for example.
+    config.autoload_lib(ignore: %w[jupyter-notebook repo tasks])
 
     # Change the format of the cache entry.
     #
@@ -57,16 +62,6 @@ class Application < Rails::Application
     # Set conservative Regexp.timeout (Rails default is 1s)
     Regexp.timeout = 10
 
-    ###
-    # Specifies whether `to_time` methods preserve the UTC offset of their receivers or preserves the timezone.
-    # If set to `:zone`, `to_time` methods will use the timezone of their receivers.
-    # If set to `:offset`, `to_time` methods will use the UTC offset.
-    # If `false`, `to_time` methods will convert to the local system UTC offset instead.
-    #
-    # Pre-Rails 8 the default was :offset; Rails 8 makes the default :zone.
-    #++
-    config.active_support.to_time_preserves_timezone = :offset
-
     # Settings below are configurable
 
     config.time_zone = Settings.rails.time_zone

config/puma.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 #
 # You can control the number of workers using ENV["WEB_CONCURRENCY"]. You
 # should only set this value when you want to run 2 or more workers. The
-# default is already 1.
+# default is already 1. You can set it to `auto` to automatically start a worker
+# for each available processor.
 #
 # The ideal number of threads per worker depends both on how much time the
 # application spends waiting for IO operations and on how much you wish to
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@
 # Global VM Lock (GVL) it has diminishing returns and will degrade the
 # response time (latency) of the application.
 #
+# The default is set to 3 threads as it's deemed a decent compromise between
+# throughput and latency for the average Rails application.
+#
 # Any libraries that use a connection pool or another resource pool should
 # be configured to provide at least as many connections as the number of
 # threads. This includes Active Record's `pool` parameter in `database.yml`.
@@ -33,7 +37,7 @@
 plugin :tmp_restart
 
 # Run the Solid Queue supervisor inside of Puma for single-server deployments
-# plugin :solid_queue if ENV["SOLID_QUEUE_IN_PUMA"]
+plugin :solid_queue if ENV['SOLID_QUEUE_IN_PUMA']
 
 # Specify the PID file. Defaults to tmp/pids/server.pid in development.
 # In other environments, only set the PID file if requested.