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Rails 6 released - What does that mean for you?

Chris Achard on August 19, 2019

This was originally posted on: chrisachard.com Rails 6 was released on August 15, 2019 with a blog post by DHH So - what's new, and what about ol...
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Anton Melnyk • • Edited

Thanks for the post! Rails indeed deserves some love besides generis 'Ruby is dead' posts 🥰

I love new 6 version. With ActionText you can basically make your own blog in a few hours from scratch seamlessnessly and Webpacker by default is a great thing for modern web development.

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Goran •

I was happy when I saw ActionText but then got disappointed when I tested it. Missing features like adding attributes on html tags, only h1 headings etc... and they have no intention to add those features

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Anton Melnyk •

Yeah, ActionText is just a thing to simplify blog-like sites and CMS like admin panels, nothing more.

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Chris Achard •

Yes, it is very opinionated. There are a few ways to extend it, but no way to go "full custom" with it (as far as I know)

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Chris Achard •

Yep, definitely! I'm excited to try out ActionText

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azeemh •

Does it work on heroku? Heroku still uses bundler < 2.0 lol i cant even deploy a vue app using webpacker on rails 5.2.3 6 looks awesome but i will hold off on updating to 6 till i can actually use it irl.

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Chris Achard •

It should, yep!

Though you may have to do a few configuration things that may be different (like specify a ruby version). Here are some details from heroku: devcenter.heroku.com/articles/gett...

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Ruan Carlos •

I do not have any problem in running my RoR Vue application there.

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azeemh • • Edited

Werd how did you get it to run? I have problems getting yarn to install... (deploying from github repo)

From build log yesterday that failed:
Installing yarn-v1.16.0
-----> Detecting rake tasks
!
! Could not detect rake tasks
! ensure you can run $ bundle exec rake -P against your app
! and using the production group of your Gemfile.
! Activating bundler (2.0.1) failed:
! Could not find 'bundler' (2.0.1) required by your /tmp/build_7c94768b24d8efa6cb17f46e4e81df42/Gemfile.lock.
! To update to the latest version installed on your system, run bundle update --bundler.
! To install the missing version, run gem install bundler:2.0.1
! Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/tmp/build_7c94768b24d8efa6cb17f46e4e81df42/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0', execute gem env for more information
!

! To install the version of bundler this project requires, run gem install bundler -v '2.0.1'
!
/app/tmp/buildpacks/b7af5642714be4eddaa5f35e2b4c36176b839b4abcd9bfe57ee71c358d71152b4fd2cf925c5b6e6816adee359c4f0f966b663a7f8649b0729509d510091abc07/lib/language_pack/helpers/rake_runner.rb:106:in load_rake_tasks!': Could not detect rake tasks (LanguagePack::Helpers::RakeRunner::CannotLoadRakefileError)
ensure you can run$ bundle exec rake -Pagainst your app
and using the production group of your Gemfile.
Activating bundler (2.0.1) failed:
Could not find 'bundler' (2.0.1) required by your /tmp/build_7c94768b24d8efa6cb17f46e4e81df42/Gemfile.lock.
To update to the latest version installed on your system, runbundle update --bundler`......

Would love to use new rails and appreciate any buildpack info or tutorials...

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Ruan Carlos •

I am using this

RUBY VERSION
   ruby 2.6.2p47

BUNDLED WITH
   1.17.2

You do not require to update your bundle to have webpacker (4.0.7) install