Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
Sep 9, 2019Eileen M. Uchitelle

Summary
This post details the successful production deployment of GitHub on Rails 6.0, achieved by upgrading weekly from Rails master. It highlights GitHub engineers' contributions of over 100 pull requests to Rails 6.0, focusing on documentation, bug fixes, features, and performance improvements. It also discusses contributions to new Rails features like parallel testing and multiple databases, and the strategy of upgrading continuously to influence the framework's evolution.