Minor release

v3.7.0 - Money and Record Link fields, `for_attribute` option, linkable association titles

Avo, for me as a freelance webdev, was a gift. You can build beautiful admin panels in the true Rails spirit, fast and effective.

Not does it only look great, but it has all the latest bells and whistles from Rails, like Hotwire.

Stian Johansen
Freelance Dev
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Hey @everyone, today's huge release involves fixing some bugs, supporting many edge cases, making some performance improvements, and adding a couple of fields.

Big changes

  • Money and Record link fields
  • for_attribute field option (huge DX improvement)
  • callable chartkick options
  • linkable association titles
  • configurable pagination
  • boolean_group computed options
  • fixed a table caching issue
  • improved resource controls display
  • fixed actions eager loading edge-case
  • improved performance in the belongs_to field

Full release notes with links on avohq.io
https://avohq.io/releases/3.7.0

Balkan.rb was a beautiful, authentic experience

The Avo team visited the Balkan.rb conference together. We stayed at a cool AirBnB, where we had some brainstorming talks about Avo's future and some hacking sessions, where we worked on a few things that were on our minds but hadn't had the time to pick up.

Next up

We have a few things cooking up that we know you'll love.

Gabriel is working on giving Avo full support for alternative IDs. Avo already supports all (tested) ID obfuscation gems like friendly_id, prefixed_id, hashids, and more to obfuscate/change the URL param, but this change will ensure that the id is not being leaked in other forms or DOM helpers.
https://github.com/avo-hq/avo/pull/2564

Gabriel also started the dashboard-wide filters feature, which will enable you to add global filters/ranges that will influence all your cards.
https://github.com/avo-hq/avo/issues/2301

Alex is a friend, not a member, but he participated in last week's hackathon and built the calendar view to complement the table, grid, and map views. You'll be able to visualize your records on a nice calendar layout and configure a few things. It'll still be in alpha, but it will give you a good sense of what's coming.

Paul has been quick to refactor a few things and make the dynamic filters configurable. Yes, you heard that right. Fully configurable dynamic filters 🤯.
You'll be able to configure the label, conditions, type, icon, and (you've guessed it), query.
This is extremely powerful, and we have heard you need this.

I've been a bit unavailable in the development area in the past two to three months, but I'm still eager to do some coding.
I started to add cover and profile photo support to the record show page. This started as a "two-hour time-boxed feature", but ended up eating so much more of my time as I'd like to make it a bit more extensible.

I started working on the second iteration of the dynamic fields. While brainstorming with Paul and Gabriel we figured out that the initial approach was not "perfect" and had quite a few flaws.
We're trying a new approach, so stick around to see where we get with this.

We also spoke a bit about the audit logs. Another feature that we thought it was going to take us "a few weeks" to get done but ended up blowing up with the possibilities.
I know the audited and papertrail gems are great, and we use them in this implementation, but you should wait to see how powerful Avo becomes with this enabled 🚀

TinySeed

Of course, the big news is that we are joining TinySeed's Spring 2024 batch. We wrote a few words about that on our blog, so please give that a read, but the gist is that the most desired bootstrap investment fund and accelerator program invested in Avo and will help us grow to the next level 💪
https://avohq.io/blog/avo-and-tinyseed

Big news, significant changes shipped, and more to come.

We can't thank you enough for believing in Avo ❤️

Thanks for being awesome!

Adrian, Paul, and Gabriel

Release notes: https://avohq.io/releases/3.7.0
Release video: https://youtu.be/UakzUQn_rsU
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Release notes

More information and release video here

🎸 Features

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • fix: check if ActionText::RichText is defined @Paul-Bob (#2741)
  • fix: resource controls spacing issue @adrianthedev (#2740)
  • fix: table cache @Paul-Bob (#2734)
  • fix: cachetablerows @Paul-Bob (#2733)
  • fix: don't export avo.custom.js build @Paul-Bob (#2731)
  • fix: render background context when accessing extrernal action links @Paul-Bob (#2730)
  • fix: actions eager loader @Paul-Bob (#2726)
  • fix: eager load actions @Paul-Bob (#2719)
  • fix: check proper dir for internal controller override @Paul-Bob (#2712)
  • fix: bad animation for menu on reload @adrianthedev (#2704)
  • Add disableeditingvalues for key_value field @gabrielgiroe1 (#2663)
  • fix: index header and rows visibility @Paul-Bob (#2549)
  • fix: detach action record @Paul-Bob (#2690)
  • fix: actions layout @Paul-Bob (#2692)
  • fix: leaky global defaulturloptions @adrianthedev (#2694)
  • fix: ActionText support for trix field @Paul-Bob (#2639)
  • Render text area newlines @krystof-k (#2678)
  • Add missing migration to dummy app @krystof-k (#2676)
  • fix: preserve page when go back from resource show page (#1555) @dmitrytrager (#2652)

🤖 Maintenance

  • chore: add record_link field to gemfile @adrianthedev (#2705)
  • [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2024-04-18) @depfu (#2701)
  • [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2024-04-12) @depfu (#2685)
  • chore: prepare for record_link field @adrianthedev (#2684)
  • [js] Update all Yarn dependencies (2024-03-31) @depfu (#2644)
  • chore: performance tweak on boolean group field and select field @Paul-Bob (#2682)

💡 Refactor

  • refactor: tweaks and money field preparations @adrianthedev (#2669)
  • Don't affect unspecified options in boolean group @krystof-k (#2677)

⚡️ Performance

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