Upgrade Ruby

[danielbreves]

Ruby version 2.1.5 is past its end of life and is now unsupported. It no longer receives bug fixes or critical security updates.

See Support of Ruby 2.1 has ended.

[daniellemoorhead]

Hi @danielbreves, we all definitely want to upgrade our Ruby version but from what we understand (research about year ago) we're blocked from doing this by the Spree upgrade that is currently (slowly) underway, which would then let us upgrade Rails which would then let us upgrade Ruby.

But looking at the latest information it seems that we can now upgrade to at least version 2.2. But then again, 2.2 is only supported till next March...so do we spend the time upgrading to 2.2 now, or do we focus our efforts on upgrading Spree so we can get Rails and Ruby up to the latest version directly afterwards?

Ping @sauloperez and @lin-d-hop and @oeoeaio and @sigmundpetersen if you have any thoughts to add to this.

[sauloperez]

Just to clarify:

so we can get Rails and Ruby up to the latest version directly afterwards?

we won't be able to get to Rails 5.1 in one go. There are way too many API changes between 3.2 and that version. Not doable IMO. The last upgrade that I did on a Rails app from 3.2 to 4 was already quite painful.

I agree though that it's better to wait for other epics to be solved before tackling the upgrade of the ruby version. Ruby 2.2. doesn't give us much room anyway...

[myriamboure]

Closing as captured in the icebox: https://community.openfoodnetwork.org/t/ensure-that-softwares-and-components-we-depend-on-are-maintained/1247 and dependent on Spree upgrade so will reopen after Spree upgrade to 2.0 is complete.