Ruby on Rails 5.1 (opens in new tab)

I'm still surprised they removed the formatting for db/schema.rb which I rely on quite a bit to remind myself what properties models have, whether or not their status can be set to null, and how many digits of precision my decimal columns have.

I went as far as writing my own formatter which consumes the db/schema.rb generated string and outputs another string with better formatting. The code is kinda shaky because I wrote it in a rush, but if anyone is interested I can share it with them.

jQuery no longer being a default dependency is great! been waiting for that for a while

Yarn and Webpack integration is already changing my life (for the better). Documentation on both still sucks however. In particular the inclusion of yarn and webpack represent a significant change in development workflows that they've not really outlined yet.

This was released on April 27. Old news.

The new form_with is bugging me. It doesn't generate id's on inputs anymore, so you have to manually add `id: 'field_id'` so that clicking labels focuses on the input. Not having the id attribute has also broken Capybara's `fill_in 'Label text'` for me.

It looks like "System Test" is what they call end-to-end testing using tools like Selenium with a browser. Scripts that e.g. send POST requests to the server process and check the result seem to also be included.

The new form_with looks convenient. It was always annoying occasionally having to switch all the methods out when a form gets more complex.

I don't really use frontend Javascript stuff, but mostly because it was a pain getting it to work with Rails and doesn't provide much benefit. Maybe in another year the Webpack changes will have made it worth using.

Wow, the yarn and webpack support is awesome! I've been using the react_on_rails gem, and I didn't like how the webpack stuff felt "tacked on", and I had to run a whole bunch of different stuff using guard. Hopefully they can work with these changes and let me get back to a single "rails server" command.

"System tests" look great, too. It's great that they've brought this in as a convention, since every Rails project I've worked on has configured capybara for integration tests.

I love Rails :)