--- title: "The Rails™ Foundation" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 629 published_at: "2022-11-17" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/629" --- Plus Ruby 3.2 preview 3, a way to squeeze your migrations, a tale of disappearing classes, and safely dropping database columns. | #​629 — November 17, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/629) 🇺🇦 Together with [![Memetria\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_600,h_145/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/vvpdctzacmq3xehpvwps.png)](https://dashboard.memetria.com/rubyweekly) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/wbu2sdyo45eqbba51hru.jpg)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/11/11/ruby-3-2-0-preview3-released/) [Ruby 3.2.0 Preview 3 Released](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/11/11/ruby-3-2-0-preview3-released/) — Two months on from [preview 2](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/09/09/ruby-3-2-0-preview2-released/) comes an _almost_ identical post for preview 3. I read both posts side by side. The differences: - An extended explanation of regex improvements to mitigate ReDoS attacks. - Work on [error tolerant parsing](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19013) (ideal for LSPs) has yielded some new methods for error tolerance on `RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree` - An update to the PRNG’s `rb_random_interface_t` We continue to expect Ruby 3.2 final on Christmas Day. Yui Naruse [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/ad18dff4.png)](https://dashboard.memetria.com/rubyweekly) [Memetria: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis Hosting](https://dashboard.memetria.com/rubyweekly) — The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow. 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