Successful Kickstarter

On June 5, 2017 we successfully concluded a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to update Rails Composer for Rails 5.1. 122 backers pledged $6,963. I’m always awed at the community support for the project. Thank you!

With support from the community, I will work on a new version of Rails Composer and update the RailsApps example applications for Rails 5.1.

Rails 5.1 requires extensive changes to the RailsApps example applications. All of the example applications use Bootstrap for layout and styling. Bootstrap requires jQuery but Rails 5.1 drops jQuery so we’ve got to add a jQuery gem and modify the application.js manifest to restore the jQuery dependency.

In Rails 5.1, the familiar form_for and form_tag helpers are replaced by a new consolidated form_with helper. The form_for and form_tag helpers will be deprecated in a future version of Rails so we have to take them out. Forms are ubiquitous in every web application. We’ll have to rework every form in every example application.

Before I tackle the updates to Rails Composer and the RailsApps example applications, I’ll update Book Two of my book series Learn Ruby on Rails. Beginners starting with Rails need an accurate and up-to-date tutorial to get started with Rails.