FYI: In our effort to keep the Best Practices Badge website running smoothly, we just upgraded from the Rails 5.1 to Rails 5.2 (specifically version 5.2.2).
If you notice a problem, please let us know!!
Rail 6 will come out April 30 of 2019; at that time, Rails 5.1 will stop receiving guaranteed security updates. So we really needed to upgrade at some point, and it’d be safer to do that now. This required a few subtle changes, which
were resolved.
Everything seems to be fine (so far) on the upgraded system. We have a decent automated test suite; the test suite did detect some problems with a “naïve” upgrade, but we corrected those problems before we even merged it into our initial-test
tier (“master”). If desperate we can revert the running version & switch to a backup database, but hopefully it will never come to THAT
J.
