Strict Loading: An advanced feature in Ruby on Rails that raises an error when an association lazy-loads, helping to catch N + 1 problems during the coding phase.
Asynchronous Queries: Allows off-loading expensive SQL to a background pool while the request continues to execute.
Multi-Database Connection Switching & Sharding: Provides support for read-replica traffic and horizontal shards in Ruby on Rails.
Delegated Types: Offers an alternative to Single Table Inheritance (STI) and polymorphic associations in Rails models.