Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by tenderlove » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more
weblog.rubyonrails.org

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by fn » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:17 PM UTC

Finally! Congrats to all the contributors!

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by jesalg » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

This has been long awaited:

  Post.where('id = 1').or(Post.where('id = 2'))

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by bratsche » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. I've kind of moved on to Elixir and Phoenix for my web stuff these days, but it's still nice to see Rails going strong.

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by ch4s3 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:22 PM UTC

jesalg wrote: post #3

This has been long awaited: Post.where('id = 1').or(Post.where('id = 2'))

Seriously, .or() always felt like a glaring omission.

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by ghayes » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:22 PM UTC

bratsche wrote: post #4

This is pretty cool. I've kind of moved on to Elixir and Phoenix for my web stuff these days, but it's still nice to see Rails going strong.

Been using Elixir / Phoenix as well, and it's been a breath of fresh air. That said, I'm glad that rails has been looking at projects like Phoenix for inspiration as it continues to grow and adapt.

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by themgt » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:23 PM UTC

Looks like a solid and and relatively straightforward upgrade from Rails 4.2. It's hard not to feel Rails has become a bit of a slow-moving behemoth though, with this release four years after 4.0. I've still got a couple clients using 3.2 from 2012 and things aren't that different.

Smart money at this point seems like a significant portion of the Rails community could begin moving to Elixir/Phoenix over the coming years. The advantages from a language/VM level just look impossible for Ruby to overcome, along with a blub effect kicking in.

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by Fuffidish » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:24 PM UTC

Nice! The Turbolinks 5 presentation was really impressive

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by paws » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:24 PM UTC

Congrats to the contributors and thanks for the hard work pushing this out!

Looking forward to Heroku working out of the box[1] and quiet assets moved to core[2]

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/container_ready_rails_5

[2] https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails/pull/355

Re: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

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Post by ch4s3 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 10:26 PM UTC

themgt wrote: post #7

Looks like a solid and and relatively straightforward upgrade from Rails 4.2. It's hard not to feel Rails has become a bit of a slow-moving behemoth though, with this release four years after 4.0. I've still got a couple clients using 3.2 from 2012 and things aren't that different. Smart money at this point seems like a significant portion of the Rails community could begin moving to Elixir/Phoenix over the coming ye…

Unless they're able to pull off 3x3 in the next year, I expect Ruby/Rails will start to lose a lot of mind-share.

*edit: For clarification, I use Ruby every day and I think its awesome! However, I don't want to see it lose popularity the way Pearl did. I'm concerned that if the language doesn't continue to innovate and improve, that I will lose ground. Lots of new languages have similarly great ergonomics, but get concurrency right, or are faster. I don't think improved concurrency is really on the table for Ruby 3, so I think 3x3 is going to be critical to the long term future of the language.

But, that's just my prediction and its likely wrong.