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Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by inopinatus »

sfilargi wrote: post #9
jph wrote: post #6

TLDR: Definitely worth upgrading. Approximately hundreds of small bug fixes, across much of Rails. The fixes include some important ones for database types, time comparisons, thread issues, record reloading, etc. IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. Thanks to all the contributors for excellent work on this release.

> IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. That has been the reason I always avoid huge frameworks like RoR. If I was to hit a bug like this, I wouldn't know where to start debugging. How do people deal with obscure bugs in the framework with something like RoR?

You start by boiling it down to an executable test case, for which there are templates here here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails....

Then you share the test case in a bug report, and collaborate to fix it. Fixing it usually involves a source code dive.

With Rails's reasonably well documented and reasonably well written codebase it's usually possible to grok the source and dependencies even coming to it cold. With the possible exception of arel.

Ruby's dirty tricks department (monkey-patching third-party objects) and duck typing together are a real boon to debugging.

Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by urs2102 »

Sivart13 wrote: post #12

If anyone's been holding off on upgrading to 5.x because of the deprecation warnings you get about requiring `params` as w keyword argument in keyword tests, I wrote a gem that could help: https://github.com/tjgrathwell/rails5-spec-converter

This is awesome.

Are there other gems and resources available for accelerating the migration from 4 to 5? Been thinking about doing it for a project for a little while.

Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by sfilargi »

inopinatus wrote: post #21
sfilargi wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. That has been the reason I always avoid huge frameworks like RoR. If I was to hit a bug like this, I wouldn't know where to start debugging. How do people deal with obscure bugs in the framework with something like RoR?

You start by boiling it down to an executable test case, for which there are templates here here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.... Then you share the test case in a bug report, and collaborate to fix it. Fixing it usually involves a source code dive. With Rails's reasonably well documented and reasonably well written codebase it's usually possible to grok the source and dependencies eve…

Nice, thanks. Pretty impressive documentation.

Seeing the praise it gets here, I will definitely give RoR a chance for my next side-project. Thanks again.

Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by sandstrom »

flukus wrote: post #15
jph wrote: post #6

TLDR: Definitely worth upgrading. Approximately hundreds of small bug fixes, across much of Rails. The fixes include some important ones for database types, time comparisons, thread issues, record reloading, etc. IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. Thanks to all the contributors for excellent work on this release.

> Approximately hundreds of small bug fixes, across much of Rails Bugs from 5.0.0 or from 4.whatever? If it's the latter then bug fixes should be going there, not in a new major release.

This is 5.0.0 -> 5.0.1

(there is a separate branch for 4.x.y releases, but that's only security patches nowadays)

Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by sandstrom »

sfilargi wrote: post #23
inopinatus wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You start by boiling it down to an executable test case, for which there are templates here here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.... Then you share the test case in a bug report, and collaborate to fix it. Fixing it usually involves a source code dive. With Rails's reasonably well documented and reasonably well written codebase it's usually possible to grok the source and dependencies eve…

Nice, thanks. Pretty impressive documentation. Seeing the praise it gets here, I will definitely give RoR a chance for my next side-project. Thanks again.

I think you will like it!

Github, Shopify, AirBnB, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Twitch, Zendesk and many others run on Ruby on Rails. You'll be in good company!

Re: Rails 5.0.1 has been released

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Post by forkerenok »

sfilargi wrote: post #9
jph wrote: post #6

TLDR: Definitely worth upgrading. Approximately hundreds of small bug fixes, across much of Rails. The fixes include some important ones for database types, time comparisons, thread issues, record reloading, etc. IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. Thanks to all the contributors for excellent work on this release.

> IMHO these fixes address dozens of bugs that could cause major puzzlement for a typical Rails developer. That has been the reason I always avoid huge frameworks like RoR. If I was to hit a bug like this, I wouldn't know where to start debugging. How do people deal with obscure bugs in the framework with something like RoR?

Appreciating the sentiment, I would like to add that a great framework builds a great community around itself, which helps (A LOT) sort out (in the worst case work around) all sorts of issues. And this holds for Rails.
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