An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III

Re:An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:57AM (#34515242)

Every Rails upgrade is kinda proof of the problem, isn't it?

There is an entire market on Google of companies expert in upgrading Rails, that to me is a bad signal.

(notice, I have almost 15 years of experience with rails)

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Re:An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III by brightball on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:22AM (#34518530)

During the Ruby 1.8.7 to 1.9 transition there was a lot of complexity to things, but it hasn't really been a big problem since then has it?

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Re:An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @11:17AM (#34520125)

I dodged that, started getting serious with rails 3 and ruby 1.9+

No,there are still many undocumented breaking changes. I recently upgraded an old app from Rail 4 to 7 that used minimal non-rails stuff and was shocked by the corner cases.

Manu changes to activerecord api go completely undocumented, but they break the code nonetheless

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Re:An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III by brightball on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:09PM (#34527276)

Did you go straight from 4 to 7 or 4, 5, 6, 7?

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Re:An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:20AM (#34530799)

There is no upgrade guide from 4 to 7,so I did from 4.2 to 5,from 5 to 5.1, from 6 to 6.1 and then to 7.

I actually found a bug that broke my app at version 6 that was resolved in 6.1,so technically my tests were not passing in version 6 and I did an "unsafe upgrade" to version 6.1

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