Rails 7 adds Enumerable#maximum

Rails 7 adds support for Enumerable#maximum and Enumerable#minimum to easily calculate the maximum and minimum value from a collection of enumerable elements.

Before Rails 7, we could only achieve the same results with a combination of map & max or min functions over the enumerable collection.

1=> Item = Struct.new(:price)
2=> items = [Item.new(12), Item.new(8), Item.new(24)]
3
4=> items.map { |x| x.price }.max
5=> 24
6
7=> items.map { |x| x.price }.min
8=> 8
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This is simplified with Rails 7's newly-introduced maximum and minimum methods.

1=> items.maximum(:price)
2=> 24
3
4=> items.minimum(:price)
5=> 8
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These methods are available through Action Controller's fresh_when and stale? for convenience.

1# Before Rails 7
2
3def index
4  @items = Item.limit(20).to_a
5  fresh_when @items, last_modified: @items.pluck(:updated_at).max
6end
7
8# After Rails 7
9
10def index
11  @items = Item.limit(20).to_a
12  fresh_when(@items)
13end
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The etag or last_modified header values will be properly set here based on the maximum value of the updated_at field.

Check out this pull request for more details.