Upgrade to Rails 8.0

.github/workflows/workflow.yml

@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           ruby-version: 3.4.5
 
-      - name: Setup Node 15
+      - name: Setup Node 24
         uses: actions/setup-node@v1
         with:
-          node-version: 15.14.x
+          node-version: 24.9.x
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |

Gemfile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }
 ruby "3.4.5"
 
 # Bundle edge Rails instead: gem "rails", github: "rails/rails"
-gem "rails", "~> 7.1.0"
+gem "rails", "~> 8.0.3"
 # Use postgresql as the database for Active Record
 gem "pg", "~> 1.6.2"
 # Use Puma as the app server

Gemfile.lock

@@ -7,83 +7,77 @@ GIT
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
-    actioncable (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    actioncable (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       nio4r (~> 2.0)
       websocket-driver (>= 0.6.1)
       zeitwerk (~> 2.6)
-    actionmailbox (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activejob (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activerecord (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activestorage (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
-      mail (>= 2.7.1)
-      net-imap
-      net-pop
-      net-smtp
-    actionmailer (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actionview (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activejob (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
-      mail (~> 2.5, >= 2.5.4)
-      net-imap
-      net-pop
-      net-smtp
+    actionmailbox (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      activejob (= 8.0.3)
+      activerecord (= 8.0.3)
+      activestorage (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
+      mail (>= 2.8.0)
+    actionmailer (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      actionview (= 8.0.3)
+      activejob (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
+      mail (>= 2.8.0)
       rails-dom-testing (~> 2.2)
-    actionpack (7.1.5.2)
-      actionview (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    actionpack (8.0.3)
+      actionview (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       nokogiri (>= 1.8.5)
-      racc
       rack (>= 2.2.4)
       rack-session (>= 1.0.1)
       rack-test (>= 0.6.3)
       rails-dom-testing (~> 2.2)
       rails-html-sanitizer (~> 1.6)
-    actiontext (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activerecord (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activestorage (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+      useragent (~> 0.16)
+    actiontext (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      activerecord (= 8.0.3)
+      activestorage (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       globalid (>= 0.6.0)
       nokogiri (>= 1.8.5)
-    actionview (7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    actionview (8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       builder (~> 3.1)
       erubi (~> 1.11)
       rails-dom-testing (~> 2.2)
       rails-html-sanitizer (~> 1.6)
-    activejob (7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    activejob (8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       globalid (>= 0.3.6)
-    activemodel (7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
-    activerecord (7.1.5.2)
-      activemodel (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    activemodel (8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
+    activerecord (8.0.3)
+      activemodel (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       timeout (>= 0.4.0)
-    activestorage (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activejob (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activerecord (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    activestorage (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      activejob (= 8.0.3)
+      activerecord (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       marcel (~> 1.0)
-    activesupport (7.1.5.2)
+    activesupport (8.0.3)
       base64
       benchmark (>= 0.3)
       bigdecimal
-      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.2)
+      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0, >= 1.3.1)
       connection_pool (>= 2.2.5)
       drb
       i18n (>= 1.6, < 2)
       logger (>= 1.4.2)
       minitest (>= 5.1)
-      mutex_m
       securerandom (>= 0.3)
-      tzinfo (~> 2.0)
+      tzinfo (~> 2.0, >= 2.0.5)
+      uri (>= 0.13.1)
     addressable (2.8.7)
       public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 7.0)
     ast (2.4.3)
@@ -228,7 +222,6 @@ GEM
     mini_mime (1.1.5)
     minitest (5.25.5)
     msgpack (1.8.0)
-    mutex_m (0.3.0)
     net-http (0.6.0)
       uri
     net-imap (0.5.11)
@@ -313,34 +306,35 @@ GEM
       rack (>= 1.3)
     rackup (2.2.1)
       rack (>= 3)
-    rails (7.1.5.2)
-      actioncable (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actionmailbox (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actionmailer (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actiontext (= 7.1.5.2)
-      actionview (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activejob (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activemodel (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activerecord (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activestorage (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
+    rails (8.0.3)
+      actioncable (= 8.0.3)
+      actionmailbox (= 8.0.3)
+      actionmailer (= 8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      actiontext (= 8.0.3)
+      actionview (= 8.0.3)
+      activejob (= 8.0.3)
+      activemodel (= 8.0.3)
+      activerecord (= 8.0.3)
+      activestorage (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
       bundler (>= 1.15.0)
-      railties (= 7.1.5.2)
+      railties (= 8.0.3)
     rails-dom-testing (2.3.0)
       activesupport (>= 5.0.0)
       minitest
       nokogiri (>= 1.6)
     rails-html-sanitizer (1.6.2)
       loofah (~> 2.21)
       nokogiri (>= 1.15.7, != 1.16.7, != 1.16.6, != 1.16.5, != 1.16.4, != 1.16.3, != 1.16.2, != 1.16.1, != 1.16.0.rc1, != 1.16.0)
-    railties (7.1.5.2)
-      actionpack (= 7.1.5.2)
-      activesupport (= 7.1.5.2)
-      irb
+    railties (8.0.3)
+      actionpack (= 8.0.3)
+      activesupport (= 8.0.3)
+      irb (~> 1.13)
       rackup (>= 1.0.0)
       rake (>= 12.2)
       thor (~> 1.0, >= 1.2.2)
+      tsort (>= 0.2)
       zeitwerk (~> 2.6)
     rainbow (3.1.1)
     rake (13.3.0)
@@ -450,6 +444,7 @@ GEM
       unicode-emoji (~> 4.1)
     unicode-emoji (4.1.0)
     uri (1.0.3)
+    useragent (0.16.11)
     view_component (4.0.2)
       activesupport (>= 7.1.0, < 8.1)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1)
@@ -515,7 +510,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   puma (~> 6.4.2)
   rack-cors
   rack-mini-profiler (~> 3.3.1)
-  rails (~> 7.1.0)
+  rails (~> 8.0.3)
   redis (~> 5.4.1)
   requestjs-rails
   rspec-rails (~> 7.1.1)

app/javascript/src/richtext.js

@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
 // - Ability to customize text colour.
 // - Ability to customize headings (h1 to h6)
 // Note: Removed horizontal rule to avoid using ActionText attachments.
-import Trix from "trix"
+import "trix"
 
 addHeadingAttributes()
 addForegroundColorAttributes()
 addBackgroundColorAttributes()
 
 addEventListener("trix-initialize", function (event) {
-    new RichText(event.target)
+  new RichText(event.target)
 })
 
 class RichText {

bin/brakeman

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+require "rubygems"
+require "bundler/setup"
+
+ARGV.unshift("--ensure-latest")
+
+load Gem.bin_path("brakeman", "brakeman")

bin/dev

@@ -1,9 +1,2 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-if ! foreman version &> /dev/null
-then
-  echo "Installing foreman..."
-  gem install foreman
-fi
-
-foreman start -f Procfile.dev "$@"
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+exec "./bin/rails", "server", *ARGV

bin/rubocop

@@ -1,29 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-#
-# This file was generated by Bundler.
-#
-# The application 'rubocop' is installed as part of a gem, and
-# this file is here to facilitate running it.
-#
-
-require "pathname"
-ENV["BUNDLE_GEMFILE"] ||= File.expand_path("../../Gemfile",
-  Pathname.new(__FILE__).realpath)
-
-bundle_binstub = File.expand_path("../bundle", __FILE__)
-
-if File.file?(bundle_binstub)
-  if File.read(bundle_binstub, 300) =~ /This file was generated by Bundler/
-    load(bundle_binstub)
-  else
-    abort("Your `bin/bundle` was not generated by Bundler, so this binstub cannot run.
-Replace `bin/bundle` by running `bundle binstubs bundler --force`, then run this command again.")
-  end
-end
-
 require "rubygems"
 require "bundler/setup"
 
+# explicit rubocop config increases performance slightly while avoiding config confusion.
+ARGV.unshift("--config", File.expand_path("../.rubocop.yml", __dir__))
+
 load Gem.bin_path("rubocop", "rubocop")

bin/setup

@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 require "fileutils"
 
-# Flags
-reset = ARGV.include?('reset')
-load_fake_data = ARGV.include?('load_fake_data')
-restart = ARGV.include?('restart')
-
-# path to your application root.
 APP_ROOT = File.expand_path("..", __dir__)
 
 def system!(*args)
@@ -19,34 +13,22 @@ FileUtils.chdir APP_ROOT do
   # Add necessary setup steps to this file.
 
   puts "== Installing dependencies =="
-  system! "gem install bundler --conservative"
   system("bundle check") || system!("bundle install")
 
   # puts "\n== Copying sample files =="
   # unless File.exist?("config/database.yml")
   #   FileUtils.cp "config/database.yml.sample", "config/database.yml"
   # end
 
-  if reset
-    # Drops and recreates db, loads schema, and initialize seed data.
-    puts "\n== Resetting database =="
-    system! "bin/rails db:reset"
-  else
-    # Creates db, loads schema, initializes seed data.
   puts "\n== Preparing database =="
   system! "bin/rails db:prepare"
-  end
-
-  if load_fake_data
-    puts "\n== Generating fake data =="
-    system! "bin/rails fake_data:all"
-  end
 
   puts "\n== Removing old logs and tempfiles =="
   system! "bin/rails log:clear tmp:clear"
 
-  if restart
-  puts "\n== Restarting application server =="
-  system! "bin/rails restart"
+  unless ARGV.include?("--skip-server")
+    puts "\n== Starting development server =="
+    STDOUT.flush # flush the output before exec(2) so that it displays
+    exec "bin/dev"
   end
 end

config/application.rb

@@ -11,20 +11,10 @@ class Application < Rails::Application
     # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
     config.load_defaults 7.1
 
-    # cache entry format version
-    config.active_support.cache_format_version = 7.1
-
-    # No longer add autoloaded paths into `$LOAD_PATH`. This means that you won't be able
-    # to manually require files that are managed by the autoloader, which you shouldn't do anyway.
-    #
-    # This will reduce the size of the load path, making `require` faster if you don't use bootsnap, or reduce the size
-    # of the bootsnap cache if you use it.
-    config.add_autoload_paths_to_load_path = false
-
     # Please, add to the `ignore` list any other `lib` subdirectories that do
     # not contain `.rb` files, or that should not be reloaded or eager loaded.
     # Common ones are `templates`, `generators`, or `middleware`, for example.
-    config.autoload_lib(ignore: %w(assets tasks))
+    config.autoload_lib(ignore: %w[assets tasks])
 
     # Configuration for the application, engines, and railties goes here.
     #