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# Blogs by Akhil Gautam

Read BigBinary blog posts by Akhil Gautam.

## Posts

### Rails 7.0 adds encryption to Active Record models

[Rails 7.0 adds encryption to Active Record models](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-7-adds-encryption-to-active-record)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: May 4, 2021
- Categories: Rails, Rails 7

Rails 7.0 adds encryption to Active Record models

### Rails 6.1 adds delegated_type to ActiveRecord

[Rails 6.1 adds delegated_type to ActiveRecord](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-adds-delegated-type-to-active-record)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: April 6, 2021
- Categories: Rails, Rails 6.1

Rails 6.1 adds delegated_type to ActiveRecord

### Rails 6.1 adds support for PostgreSQL interval data type

[Rails 6.1 adds support for PostgreSQL interval data type](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-adds-postgresql-interval-data-type)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: January 26, 2021
- Categories: Rails, Rails 6.1

Rails 6.1 adds support for PostgreSQL interval data type

### Ruby 3 adds new method Hash#except

[Ruby 3 adds new method Hash#except](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-3-adds-new-method-hash-except)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: November 11, 2020
- Categories: Ruby, Ruby 3

Ruby 3 adds new method except to Hash class

### Ruby 3 adds endless method definition

[Ruby 3 adds endless method definition](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-3-adds-endless-method-definition)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: September 15, 2020
- Categories: Ruby, Ruby 3

Ruby 3 adds endless method definition

### Rails 6 adds including & excluding method on Enumerables

[Rails 6 adds including & excluding method on Enumerables](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-array-including-excluding-and-enumerable-including-excluding)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: August 18, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds Array#including/excluding and Enumerable#including/excluding

### Rails 6.1 creates abstract classes in multiple database mode

[Rails 6.1 creates abstract classes in multiple database mode](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-automatically-generates-abstract-class-when-using-multiple-databases)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: August 4, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 automatically generates abstract class when generating scaffold in
another database

### Rails 6.1 adds annotate_rendered_view_with_filenames for views

[Rails 6.1 adds annotate_rendered_view_with_filenames for views](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-adds-annotate_rendered_view_with_filenames-to-annotate-html-output)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: July 29, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 adds ActionView::Base.annotate_rendered_view_with_filenames to
annotate HTML output

### Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally

[Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-7-adds-enumerable-tally)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: February 18, 2020
- Categories: Ruby 2.7, Ruby

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally

### Rails 6 adds rails db:prepare to migrate or setup a database

[Rails 6 adds rails db:prepare to migrate or setup a database](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-rails-db-prepare-to-migrate-or-setup-a-database)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: December 10, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds rails db:prepare to migrate or setup a database if it doesn't exist

### Rails 6 adds ActiveStorage::Blob#open

[Rails 6 adds ActiveStorage::Blob#open](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-activestorage-blob-open)

- Author: Akhil Gautam
- Published: October 30, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds ActiveStorage::Blob#open

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