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Rails 8.0 Released

109 points by nnf 2y ago

jrhey 2y ago
Great news, but I'll be waiting until 8.1 to upgrade my apps
- theappsecguy 2y ago
  Rails 8 is very stable from what I have seen
- PapaPalpatine 2y 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.
ktbwrestler 2y ago
Thank you rails core team!!
mathnmusic 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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.
xrd 2y 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?
- graypegg 2y ago
  You should be able to run multiple services with kamal 2! [0] They'll just be their own config.yml file that you push with the cli. [0] https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-apps-single-server-kamal-2/ https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-apps-single-server-kamal-...
kristianpaul 2y ago
Nice, and 8.1 will come probably with fully support for Progress Web Apps !
vaxman 2y 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 https://www.youtube.com/embed/za0nyYbp6is?feature=oembed "Look what I'm not doing" -DHH #ROFLMAO
earthnail 2y ago
A bit late to the comment party but just wanted to say that I just upgraded from 7.2 to 8 and it was a complete walk in the park. Easiest major dependency upgrade in a long time. Also finally upgraded from Sprockets to Propshaft and Importmaps this afternoon and it was very straightforward as well. Truly amazing.

Rails 8.0 Released

109 points by nnf 2y ago

jrhey 2y ago

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

theappsecguy 2y ago
Rails 8 is very stable from what I have seen
PapaPalpatine 2y 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.

ktbwrestler 2y ago

Thank you rails core team!!

mathnmusic 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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.

xrd 2y 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?

graypegg 2y ago
You should be able to run multiple services with kamal 2! [0] They'll just be their own config.yml file that you push with the cli. [0] https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-apps-single-server-kamal-2/ https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-apps-single-server-kamal-...

kristianpaul 2y ago

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

vaxman 2y 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 https://www.youtube.com/embed/za0nyYbp6is?feature=oembed "Look what I'm not doing" -DHH #ROFLMAO

earthnail 2y ago

A bit late to the comment party but just wanted to say that I just upgraded from 7.2 to 8 and it was a complete walk in the park. Easiest major dependency upgrade in a long time. Also finally upgraded from Sprockets to Propshaft and Importmaps this afternoon and it was very straightforward as well. Truly amazing.