Triangle.rb Notes - Things To Look Out For In Rails 5

Things To Look Out For In Rails 5

2017-01-10 with Brandon Mathis (meetup)

History

Rails 1

Rails 2

• Tiobe language popularity ranking
• EnvyLabs "commercials"
  • They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might be hard to find now. Here's Rails Versus PHP
• _why the lucky stiff

Rails 3 (2010)

• bundler
• arel
• coffescript
• asset pipeline
• merge with merb

Rails 4 (2013)

• turbolinks
• threadsafe
• live streaming
• LOTS of dev tools

Rails 5 (2016)

• action cable - websockets for rails apps
• puma
• apis
• attributes
• rails subsumes rake
• debugger replaced with byebug
  • NOTE check out pry-byebug

APIs

Previously add Rails API to Rails.

Now just use $ rails new app-name --api

Attributes

Easily specify custom datatypes and defaults for model attributes.

class Student < ApplicationRecord
  attribute :money, Money.new
end

Future

• webpack
• (probably other stuff too)