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Author: gregmolnar

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+layout: post
+title: "Deprecation, bugfixes and more!"
+categories: news
+author: Greg
+og_image: assets/images/this-week-in-rails.png
+published: true
+date: 2024-02-02
+---
+
+
+Hi, it's [Greg](https://greg.molnar.io). Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase.
+
+[Deprecate passing _nil_ as model argument](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50931)  
+Passing `nil` as the value for the `model:` argument to the `form_with` method will be deprecated in the next release of Rails.
+
+[Skip CSS when creating APIs](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50907)  
+This pull request makes the Rails generator skip the CSS part if the `--api` flag is set, because CSS is unnecessary for API only apps.
+
+[Commented out lines in _.railsrc_ file should not be treated as arguments](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50904)  
+Before this change commented out lines in the .railsrc file were parsed as arguments if the commented part any arguments inside. This pull request fixes that.
+
+[Add _row_count_ field to _sql.active_record_ notification](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50887)  
+This pull request adds a `row_count` field to the `sql.active_record` notification
+This field returns the amount of rows returned by the query that emitted the notification. This metric is useful in cases where one wants to detect queries with big result sets.
+
+[Allow encryption without compression](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50876)  
+This pull request adds an option to `ActiveRecord::Encryption::Encryptor` to disable compression:
+```ruby
+class User
+  encrypts :name, encryptor: ActiveRecord::Encryption::Encryptor.new(compress: false)
+end
+```
+You may want to avoid compression if your data is already compressed, or to avoide revealing information about the entropy of the encrypted value.
+
+_You can view the whole list of changes [here](https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/@%7B2024-01-26%7D...main@%7B2024-02-02%7D)._
+_We had [25 contributors](https://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/in-time-window/20240126-20240202) to the Rails codebase this past week!_
+
+Until next time!
+
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