Claudio Baccigalipo. Rails 5: awesome features and breaking changes

Each major release of Rails brings shiny new features and mild headaches for developers required to upgrade their applications and gems. Rails API, ActionCable, Turbolinks 3 are only a few of the changes announced for Rails 5. How can programmers get ready for the future without breaking their legacy code In this talk, I will cover the improvements brought by Rails 5, explain the Core teams motivations behind each feature, and illustrate the upgrade process to smoothly transition gems and apps from Rails 4. 2 to Rails 5. 0.