Rails Core Member and Unboxed’s CTO, Andrew White (@pixeltrix), held the first Andrew White’s Technical Breakfast Club last Wednesday morning. Developers and architects attended to hear the uncovering of the major topic, and find out the answer the question on everyone's minds: What’s coming in Rails 5.0?

With the impending release of Rails 5.0 likely to be the biggest release for five years, the time has come to start thinking about migration plans. Nobody likes being left behind, nobody likes being tripped up with major releases… Enter Andrew White to guide the way.

The main topics covered included:

• Action Cable - What is it?
  
• Turbolinks 3 - New features, persistent elements, partial replacement
  
• Sprockets 4 - What’s changed?
  
• Rails 5 - What’s under the hood, cleaning house
  
• Rails API - Integration, how to prepare, big fixes, security updates
  
  

Other insights shared included:

The session ended with a short Q&A, where members of the audience picked Andrew's brain about the bounty of new and upcoming features in Rails 5.0:

And without further ado, the slides from the session:

Just had an amazing Technical Breakfast and an overview to upgrading to Rails 5.0 - by @pixeltrix pic.twitter.com/gfJ61bwmpI

— Evangelos Giataganas (@EGiataganas) September 16, 2015

@pixeltrix thanks for the talk this morning. It was great to hear about Rails 5 from a core contributor!

— Simon Fletcher (@unorthodoxdev) September 16, 2015

Useful and clear presentation by @pixeltrix on upgrading to Rails 5.0 @Ubxd pic.twitter.com/sJT5XjovdS

— Tatiana Soukiassian (@binaryberry) September 16, 2015