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Rails 6 Upgrade Best Practices

Nate Vick on May 14, 2019

Originally posted on Hint's blog. Rails 6 is right around the corner, 6.0.0.rc1 was released in late April. Is your app ready for the latest versi...
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Aaron Todd

I've been mostly responsible for Rails upgrade projects in my team the last 4 years or so. In that time we've moved through all the versions from 4.0 to now 6.0.0.rc and I think this was by far the easiest update I've done, even including the minor release updates.

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Nate Vick

It seems like there has been effort by the Rails core team to make them more straight forward for app using the Rails Way.

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Yaswant Yadav • Edited

Did you create a new rails6 project and moved all features?

If not how you manged the project structure change ?

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Nate Vick

No, we work within the current app to upgrade. We have found most new features or changes are opt-in.