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Ruby on Rails 5.0

Summary

Ruby on Rails 5.0 is the latest version of well known web framework written in Ruby.

Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

The Ruby on Rails stack is evolving quickly and Fedora needs to keep pace with it. Therefore the whole Ruby on Rails stack should be updated from 4.2 in Fedora 24 to 5.0 (latest version) in Fedora 25. This will ensure that all the Ruby developers using Fedora have the latest and greatest RPM-packaged Ruby on Rails.

Benefit to Fedora

This update will keep Fedora up-to-date and will ensure that the current Ruby on Rails developers stay with us as they will get support for system-packaged Ruby on Rails of the latest version. Apart from that, update to Rails 5.0 will bring ActionCable (A new framework that seamlessly integrates WebSockets with the rest of your Rails application), API mode (You can create a new Rails application using rails new backend --api), ActionRecord attributes that can override, and exclusive use of rails CLI over Rake.

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  • The whole Rails stack has to be updated
  • Some dependencies of the Rails stack will need update

List of packages needed by Rails 5.0 to generate basic application

Package name Task Status
rubygem-actioncable Create (5.0.x)
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1354545
rubygem-actionmailer Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1351811
rubygem-actionpack Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1351812
rubygem-actionview Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1351813
rubygem-activejob Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1351814
rubygem-activemodel Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1351815
rubygem-activerecord Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1351816
rubygem-activesupport Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1351817
rubygem-arel Update to 7.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1292628
rubygem-builder No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-bundler No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-concurrent-ruby No need to update
Pass pass vondruch
rubygem-erubis No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-globalid Update to >= 0.3.6
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1296970
rubygem-i18n No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-loofah No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-mail Latest version
Pass pass vondruch
#1320765
rubygem-method_source No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-mime-types Update to 3.1 (latest version) because of rubygem-mime-types-data
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#907393
rubygem-mime-types-data
Pass pass vondruch
#1351575
rubygem-mini_portile2 No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-minitest No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-nio4r Create (~> 1.2)
Pass pass jaruga
#1315801
rubygem-nokogiri No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-pkg-config No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-rack Update to 2.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1352603
rubygem-rack-test No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-rails Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1352604
rubygem-rails-dom-testing Update to ~> 2.0 (It does not need to update at 5.0.0.rc2, but it needs to update at 5.0.0)
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1297006
rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-railties Update to 5.0.x
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1352605
rubygem-rake No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-sprockets No need to update. Fix the build failure.
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1352650
rubygem-sprockets-rails No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-thor No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-thread_safe No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-tzinfo No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-websocket-driver Update to ~> 0.6.1
Pass pass jaruga
#1171085
rubygem-websocket-extensions No need to update
Pass pass jaruga

List of optional packages, required by the basic Ruby on Rails application

Package name Task Status
rubygem-byebug No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-coffee-rails No need to update. Fix the build failure.
Pass pass jaruga
#1357056
rubygem-coffee-script No need to update. Fix the build failure.
Pass pass jaruga
#1357047
rubygem-coffee-script-source No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-debug_inspector No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-execjs No need to update. Fix the build failure.
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1357592
rubygem-ffi No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-jbuilder Update to ~> 2.5
Inprogress inprogress vondruch
#1294347
rubygem-jquery-rails No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-listen No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-multi_json No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-puma Create? (~> 3.0) TODO
Fail fail jaruga
rubygem-rails-deprecated_sanitizer No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-rb-fsevent No use
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-rb-inotify Latest version
Pass pass vondruch
#1305192
rubygem-sass No need to update.
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-sass-rails No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-spring No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-spring-watcher-listen Create? (~> 2.0.0) TODO
Fail fail jaruga
rubygem-sqlite3 No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-tilt No need to update
Pass pass jaruga
rubygem-turbolinks Update to 5.x
Fail fail jaruga
rubygem-turbolinks-source Create? TODO
Fail fail jaruga
rubygem-uglifier No need to update. Fix the build failure.
Inprogress inprogress jaruga
#1357879
rubygem-web-console No need to update
Pass pass jaruga

The lists are compiled from the result of "bundle list" and "Gemfile.lock" after both installing rails, and creating new Rails app.

  • Other developers: Update Rails dependent packages to be working with Ruby on Rails 5.0
  • Release engineering: Not needed.
  • Policies and guidelines: Not needed
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Web applications build above Ruby on Rails framework might need to be updated. Official upstream upgrade guide might come handy: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html

How To Test

The test packages are available in Copr (WIP):

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/vondruch/ror5/

  • No special hardware is needed.
  • To test Rails 5.0 from upstream:
gem install rails -v 5.0.x
rails new app
cd app && rails s
dnf install rubygem-{rails,sqlite3}
rails new app
cd app && rails s
  • To test the complete feature including generating a new Rails app using RPM
su -c "dnf install rubygem-{rails,sqlite3,coffee-rails,sass-rails,uglifier,jquery-rails,turbolinks,jbuilder,sdoc,spring,byebug,web-console} nodejs"
rails new app --skip-bundle && cd app
rails s

User Experience

  • New version of Ruby on Rails (5.0) available
  • The most significant Rails 5.0 features:
    • ActionCable: user can use WebSockets with the rest of your Rails application.
    • API mode: uesr can create a Rails application for API server easily with API mode.
    • Exclusive use of rails CLI over Rake. Add bin/rails test, bin/rails db:migrate. Now bin/rails is the one master command to rule them all.
    • ActionRecord attributes: user can override ActiveRecord attributes if needed.

Dependencies

  • There are several packages, which depends on Ruby on Rails framework. All need to be tested an updated:
  • These needs to be surely updated:
    • none now
  • Following gems don't support Rails 5.0 right now and would be broken by the update:
    • none now
  • As Rails requires Ruby >= 2.2.2, the platform less than the version can not use Rails 5.0.

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: None needed. Rails stack won't be updated until all its dependencies are in Rawhide. After that, it will be a simple matter of updating the core packages (and their dependencies).
  • Contingency deadline: N/A
  • Blocks release? No

Documentation

Release Notes