Rails 8.1 is Out
This was one of the easiest Rails upgrades I've done yet. Also, since I've been posting about using AI agents, here's what deploying the newly updated app looked like: Tests were run by the QA Manager and Test Runner agents, coordinated by the Release Manager agent. The Release Manager also tagged a release in GitHub, updated the changelog, deployed it to production, and wrote a post-deployment report—all without me doing anything manually but telling Claude Code to do deploy a release.
Rails 8.1: Job continuations, structured events, local CI
Rails 8.1 represents the work of over 500 contributors across 2500 commits since our last major release. After some weeks of people trying the betas and releases candidates, we are excited to share the final release.