Rails 8.0 Released

(rubyonrails.org)

105 points | by nnf 5 days ago ago

11 comments

  • mathnmusic 5 days ago

    There is a lot to like here. It can be a nice stack when combined with async/falcon and viewcomponents, at least where you don't need a lot of client-side state and browser API usage (canvas/usermedia etc) where javascript-first is a better approach, or a lot of number crunching, for which Python is better.

  • maz1b 4 days ago

    Seems like a more exciting Rails release than I can remember in several years.

    Curious about the benefits of Propshaft vs Sprockets, and how significant the improvements around SQLite in production really are.

    • strzibny 4 days ago

      I think the only benefit is that it does less, so less code, less maintainance or things going wrong? But Sprockets is certainly battle tested and maybe better choice for many right now.

  • kristianpaul 4 days ago

    Nice, and 8.1 will come probably with fully support for Progress Web Apps !

  • jrhey 5 days ago

    Great news, but I'll be waiting until 8.1 to upgrade my apps

    • PapaPalpatine 5 days ago

      Any reason why you'd wait? Rails 8 has been running in production for awhile at a few of the major shops and I'd assume it's pretty stable.

    • theappsecguy 5 days ago

      Rails 8 is very stable from what I have seen

  • xrd 4 days ago

    This is another brilliant writing example from dhh. What a master he is. Talk about the tech and the big sea changes, and talk about the people. This was clearly written with the help of many smart people. So good.

    I'm very interested in kamal 2. I use dokku for almost everything and I like that I can do from the command line anything like deployment, use Dockerfiles, scale instances, switch proxies.

    kamal 2 seems like it takes over an entire server. Is there any reason to consider kamal 2 if you want to buy a single server and run a bunch of tiny applications on it (the way I run dokku)? Maybe rails is heavy enough that you really need to run it on server by itself?

  • ktbwrestler 5 days ago

    Thank you rails core team!!

  • vaxman 4 days ago

    "You built a couple widgets and a wiki that scales And then you paid your people double cause they did it in Rails"

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/za0nyYbp6is?feature=oembed

    "Look what I'm not doing" -DHH #ROFLMAO