rails-upgrade-6-to-7

rails-upgrade-6-to-7 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sandeepmvl/rails-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,083 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for moving a Ruby on Rails web app from version 6 to version 7. It covers staged upgrades, code loading, JavaScript assets, and newer Rails features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and carry out a Rails 6-to-7 upgrade, choose between importmap and JavaScript bundling, and introduce Hotwire gradually.
Why use it?
It helps avoid breaking a large app by upgrading through each version and handling major changes such as mandatory Zeitwerk loading and the removal of Webpacker.

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Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan and carry out a Rails 6-to-7 upgrade, choose between importmap and JavaScript bundling, and introduce Hotwire gradually.

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npx skills add sandeepmvl/rails-skills --skill 17-rails-upgrade-6-to-7
Clone the repo
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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00217
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skills/17-rails-upgrade-6-to-7/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

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Rails 6 → 7 Upgrade

Bigger hop than 7→8. Webpacker is gone. Zeitwerk autoloader is mandatory. Hotwire arrives. Treat it as a multi-week project for a non-trivial app.

The opinion

Dual-boot with next_rails. Hop 6.0 → 6.1 → 7.0 → 7.1. Migrate off Webpacker as a separate project before or after — never inline with the version bump. Choose importmap-rails (default) or jsbundling-rails based on app size. Adopt Hotwire (Turbo+Stimulus) gradually if you have a heavy jQuery legacy.

The hop sequence

6.0 → 6.1 → 7.0 → 7.1

Core patterns

Pattern 1: 6.0 → 6.1

Key changes:

  • Multi-DB support (connects_to).
  • Stricter enum semantics.
  • where.missing(:assoc) shortcut.
  • delegated_type shipped.

Hop, fix deprecations, ship.

Pattern 2: 6.1 → 7.0 — the big one

Required:

  • Ruby 2.7+.
  • Zeitwerk autoloader (was already in 6.0 as default — but 7.0 removes Classic).

Breaking-ish:

  • Webpacker deprecated; replaced by importmap-rails or jsbundling-rails (esbuild / rollup / webpack still available).
  • spring-watcher-listen removed.
  • ActiveRecord Encryption ships (encrypts :col).

Webpacker decision matrix:

App Pick
Server-rendered Rails + sprinkle of JS importmap-rails (no Node build)
React/Vue SPA mixed in jsbundling-rails with esbuild
Heavy CSS preprocessing cssbundling-rails
Legacy Webpacker app, can't migrate yet shakapacker (community fork)
# Migrating from Webpacker (illustrative — full migration is its own skill)
# 1. Remove Webpacker, add importmap-rails
gem "importmap-rails"

# 2. bin/rails importmap:install
# 3. Move app/javascript/packs/* → app/javascript/*
# 4. Update layouts: <%= javascript_importmap_tags %>
# 5. Remove webpacker files, bin/webpack, etc.

Pattern 3: 7.0 → 7.1

Key changes:

  • Rails.error.report arrives.
  • async_count, load_async.
  • Trilogy gem for MySQL.
  • composed_of deprecated; use Attributes API.

Mild hop; mostly deprecation cleanup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 105 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A ec22cee7236a

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rails-upgrade-6-to-7 is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandeepmvl/rails-skills (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,083 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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