Unboxing Rails 7 - What's New in the Latest Major Version

Explore the latest features and changes in Rails 7.0 in this 27-minute conference talk from RailsConf 2022. Discover how the default stack has been streamlined by removing webpacker and spring, and learn about new additions such as encrypted attributes and asynchronous query loading. Delve into the changes in autoloading defaults and the introduction of comments for Active Record queries. Gain insights into the new front-end development tools and understand the motivations behind key architectural decisions. Review numerous Pull Requests merged into rails/rails in 2021 and get guidance on the process of upgrading from Rails 6.1 to Rails 7.