When looking at upcoming major releases of projects like Ruby on Rails, it can be easy to get distracted by the big, flashy features, such as Hotwire and encrypted attributes in Rails 7.0. However, sometimes I find myself getting more excited by smaller, more modest additions in upcoming releases. This is the case with the recent merge of a PR to Rails that will form part of Rails 7.1: Add routes --unused option to detect extraneous routes by Gannon McGibbon.
We all know the rails routes com...