The Propshaft Version Lever You Were Told Was Gone

A piece of feedback to the Rails community crossed my feed this week. A team had migrated an application to Rails 8.1.3, adopted Propshaft — the asset pipeline that replaced Sprockets as the Rails 8 default — and concluded that it had removed the ability to set a version string to force new fingerprints on precompile. Their words were that this introduced “a weakness to the platform.” The…