[jbackus]

I feel bad for Sean Griffin. He spent over a year overhauling the internals of ActiveRecord to add this attributes API. His work dramatically improves coercion and type enforcement for ActiveRecord users. Seems weird for this to only get a non-descriptive bullet point in "other highlights."

Here are the docs if anyone is interested: http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Attribut...

[steveklabnik]

Sean has been doing fantastic, underappreciated work for a long time. Agree here.

[trevorturk]

Super appreciated! Great work Sean. This kind of deep structural improvement will pay dividends for years.

[dopamean]

I'd love to read more about it. Do you know if he has written anything about this work?

[rabidferret]

Most in depth I went was probably in http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUuYAksQWg4 but I discuss it in pretty much every talk I give.

You can also just ping me on Twitter and I can talk about it more. :)

[jwolgamott]

Sean gave a (great) talk at RailsConf covering the attribute work as well as other Rails5 features "that you haven't heard of".

http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-rails-5-features-yo...

[jbackus]

I don't know if he has written about it beyond the docs and various commits. He has talked about it many times on his podcast (which I highly recommend). Here is an episode that talks about the attributes API as well as his Relation#or work: http://bikeshed.fm/8

Definitely also checkout the episodes where he talks about Diesel.

[VeejayRampay]

Agreed, thank you Sean for all your hard work. You rock!

[ansonhoyt]

Agreed, the attributes API work is perhaps the top improvement for me.