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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 `model: nil` as an 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 had 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, which 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 prevent 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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