---
title: thoughtbot Ruby Open Source is Ready for Rails 5
teaser: Upgrade all the things!
tags: open source,ruby,rails,paperclip,clearance,suspenders,scenic,web
author: Tute Costa
published_on: 2016-07-01
---

Ruby on Rails 5.0 [was just announced]! Rails continues to be secure,
productive, extensible, stable, and makes us happy thanks to the consistent work
of the core team and hundreds of contributors. To all of you who helped triage
an issue with Rails or its ecosystem, contributed any new issue, improved
documentation, or submitted code: _thank you_! Writing Ruby is fun and
productive thanks to your work.

[was just announced]: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/6/30/Rails-5-0-final/

At thoughtbot we were preparing for the big day, so our open source libraries
have been ready for a while. Here's our state of affairs:

**[Clearance]**, our authentication library, [supports Rails 5] from version
1.13

[Clearance]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance
[supports Rails 5]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance/pull/644

You know that **[Paperclip]**, our file attachment management for ActiveRecord,
supports Rails 5 because its version _is_ 5. So consistent! We follow semantic
versioning, so the fact that versions seem now in sync is pure coincidence.

We started working in Paperclip support for Rails 5 in [Pull Request 1976]. We
also released v4.3.7 of Paperclip today, the last v4.3 official release, which
includes deprecation warnings that guide the upgrade to v5. Paperclip 4.3
supports Rails 4.2 and older, and we won’t actively maintain it any longer.
Paperclip 5 supports current versions of Rails (4.2 and 5).

[Paperclip]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip
[Pull Request 1976]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/pull/1976

**[Suspenders]**, our Rails template, [generates Rails 5 applications] as of
version 1.41, released today. That changeset removes a gem and logic that is not
necessary anymore, because 5.0 is the [easiest to deploy to Heroku].

[Suspenders]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders
[generates Rails 5 applications]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders/pull/753
[easiest to deploy to Heroku]: https://blog.heroku.com/container_ready_rails_5

The library for setting up Ruby objects as test data, **[FactoryBot]**,
is [ready for Rails 5] at least since v4.4.

[FactoryBot]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot
[ready for Rails 5]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/pull/866

**[High Voltage]** as of version 3.0 [can be used with Rails 5.0].

[High Voltage]: https://thoughtbot.github.io/high_voltage
[can be used with Rails 5.0]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage/pull/229/files

**[Scenic]**, our library for adding versioned database views to Rails
applications, has been ready for Rails 5 since, like, forever.

[Scenic]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/scenic

Thank you again to everyone who has contributed issues, documentation, code or
other to our [open source libraries]. See you on GitHub and RubyGems!

[open source libraries]: https://thoughtbot.com/tools