Happy Wednesday! Here is issue #150 of our newsletter, bringing you news and the best tools for your current or future Rails projects… 1. 🚀 Ready to supercharge your Rails upgrade? Ernesto unveils our open-source Claude Code Skills, which we crafted from over 60,000 hours of expertise! Embrace a battle-tested, structured approach for seamless Rails upgrades. Learn how we used our experience to define a gradual process to upgrade applications with the help of Claude Code, the way we would do it. 📺 Ernesto recently demo’d FastRuby.io®’s open source Claude Code Rails upgrade skills at Artificial Ruby. If you missed it, you can watch the full talk here: “Teaching Claude Code to Upgrade Rails.” 2. 🎉 Ready to migrate your Rails app from Heroku to Railway? In this article, Juan shares his experience migrating a multi-tenant Rails app from Heroku to Railway. From database hiccups to domain flips, Juan shares the ups and downs of this migration. If you're considering making the switch yourself or just love a good tech story, this one's for you. 3. 🚨 Running an unsupported Ruby version can quietly introduce risk into your application. In this post, Hiroshi Shibata breaks down Ruby’s release cycle and what maintainers need to know about version support and end-of-life timelines. It’s a clear guide to help teams stay aligned with supported versions and avoid unexpected security or maintenance issues. 4. 📈 Frontend updates in Rails are evolving quickly, and keeping up with Hotwire changes can be tricky. Juan Vasquez walks us through the shift from Turbo Streams to Turbo Morph, explaining what’s changed and why it matters. It offers a practical look at how these updates can improve UI rendering and simplify dynamic interactions. 5. 📦 Publishing a Rails engine sounds straightforward—until you go through it yourself. Check out the final chapter of Seryl Lns's DataPorter series. In this retrospective, Seryllns shares lessons learned from building and releasing a Rails engine to RubyGems and explores the 20 meticulously crafted components of this powerful data import engine. From packaging to versioning and distribution, it’s a candid look at what works, what doesn’t, and what to expect along the way. 6. 🐾 Are You Pumped for Puma 8.0? This release amps up your app with smarter concurrency controls and enhanced debugging tools, optimizing IO-bound requests and boosting performance with IPv6 by default. It’s a practical checklist to help teams transition smoothly and keep their Rails apps running reliably. Check out our other articles on: Ruby | Rails | Compatibility | Upgrades | Tech Debt | AI Bookmark, share, or save them for later. We hope these links are helpful to you.😉 Know anyone who would love to receive this newsletter? Tell them to subscribe to the Rails Upgrade News newsletter… Best, The FastRuby.io Team |
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