Dohmen iconDohmenAug 9, 2026 ~1 min source read

Rails is done

If you need more context on why Rails needs a new leadership, here is David Celis summing it up a year ago, Paul Battley a few weeks ago, and—even though it is hard to believe—it even got worse since then. Rails is a huge code base and has multiple engineers who can invest significant work time into improving it.

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If you need more context on why Rails needs a new leadership, here is David Celis summing it up a year ago, Paul Battley a few weeks ago, and—even though it is hard to believe—it even got worse since then.

Rails is a huge code base and has multiple engineers who can invest significant work time into improving it.

Since I started to update The Rails 5 Way to Rails 6 (and then later 7 and 8), I've been monitoring the changes to Rails closely:

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If you need more context on why Rails needs a new leadership, here is David Celis summing it up a year ago, Paul Battley a few weeks ago, and—even though it is hard to believe—it even got worse since then. Rails is a huge code base and has multiple engineers who can invest significant work time into improving it. Since I started to update The Rails 5 Way to Rails 6 (and then later 7 and 8), I've been monitoring the changes to Rails closely:

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  • If you generate a Rails application with rails new --minimal, you only get the core parts of the framework (railties, actionpack,…
  • How could a few people fork and maintain it in their free time?

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