December 4, 2024

GraphQL-Ruby 2.4 Update

Hey Everyone,

I recently shipped GraphQL-Ruby v2.4 to RubyGems and I’m writing to let you know what’s new since my last email:

• Development: GraphQL-Ruby now supports lazy-loading type definitions as needed in development. This can speed up your Rails app’s boot time, especially if you have a big schema. Read about opting in to this setup here: Lazy-loading types. Additionally, v2.4.5 includes incrementally loading the library itself (using Ruby’s autoload). If you're using something other than Rails, you'll want to make sure you're eager-loading it in production.
• Security: max_query_string_tokens and validate_timeout are new options for managing use of your GraphQL API.
• Instrumentation: GraphQL::Current provides some methods for tagging your SQL queries with ActiveRecord::QueryLogs
• Parsing: Since GraphQL-Ruby v2.3.0, the parser no longer accepts newlines in the middle of single-quoted strings. Use GraphQL::Language.escape_single_quoted_newline to assess and handle invalid query strings.
• Performance: GraphQL::Dataloader now accepts a fiber_limit: option for limiting memory usage for very large operations. This option is also supported by the AsyncDataloader.

Beyond these, many more improvements and fixes are listed in the CHANGELOG.

GraphQL::Pro and GraphQL::Enterprise got some updates, too:

• The @defer directive’s delimiter format was improved for better response handling.
• Rails generators are available for the OperationStore, Pundit integration and CanCan integration.
• The ObjectCache now supports Dalli, ConnectionPool, and Redis Cluster backends.
• Pusher subscriptions and Ably subscriptions now report more data to the dashboard and handle very large numbers of subscribers (10,000+) better. They also use a single channel to distribute broadcasted updates.
• The JavaScript client has improved subscriptions integrations with urql, Relay, ActionCable and Ably. The sync tool now supports Apollo’s generate-persisted-query-manifest.

The full list of changes are found in the GraphQL::Pro changelog, GraphQL::Enterprise changelog, and graphql-ruby-client changelog.

I hope you found this update useful! Best,

Robert