New Features¶ ↑

• A concurrent_eager_loading plugin has been added. This plugin builds on top of the async_thread_pool Database extension and allows eager loading multiple associations concurrently in separate threads. With this plugin, you can mark datasets for concurrent eager loading using eager_load_concurrently:

  Album.eager_load_concurrently.eager(:artist, :genre, :tracks).all
  

  Datasets that are marked for concurrent eager loading will use concurrent eager loading if they are eager loading more than one association. If you would like to make concurrent eager loading the default, you can load the plugin with the :always option.

  All of the association types that ship with Sequel now support concurrent eager loading when using this plugin. For custom eager loaders using the :eager_loader association option, please see the documentation for the plugin for how to enable custom eager loading for them.

Other Improvements¶ ↑

• The date_arithmetic extension now handles ActiveSupport::Duration values with weeks, as well as :weeks as a key in a hash value. Weeks are converted into 7 days internally.

• The shared SQLite adapter now emulates the dropping of non-composite unique constraints. Non-composite unique constraints are now treated similarly to composite unique constraints, in that dropping any unique constraints on a table will drop all unique constraints on that table.