Rails 8.0 stops getting security patches on November 7, 2026. Here is what changes between 8.0 and 8.1, the seven new defaults and which ones can bite, and a dual-boot plan you can finish before the deadline.
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A start-to-finish walkthrough of shipping a Rails 8 app with Vite, Solid Queue and PostgreSQL to a single Ubuntu VPS using Kamal 2 and Docker Hub, including the errors you will probably hit and how to fix each one.