Originally posted on the Ruby on Rails Blog

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Add database_exists? method to connection adapters

The database_exists? method does what you might think—it checks whether a database exists. This will help in resolving some inconsistencies between SQLite and the other database adapters.

Share column and table names between connections

Sharing is a beautiful thing. Since connection instances are likely to share table and column names, we can store them on the class instead of on each instance. Isn’t that nice?

Fix query cache when using shared connections

Congratulations to Heinrich on their first commit to Rails!

Fix bug when combining order with exist?

Congratulations to Takayuki on their first commit to Rails!

21 people contributed to Rails in the last week. Want to see your name on that list? Check out the list of issues here.

Be well!