Drop Ruby 1.8.7 Support about cancancan HOT 6 CLOSED

I forked the project and dropped support for Ruby < 1.9 and RubyEnterpriseEdition.
Looks like everything works great:
https://travis-ci.org/coorasse/cancancan
https://github.com/coorasse/cancancan

I can create a PR for it. What are your plans about dropping Ruby 1.8 support?

from cancancan.

I want to drop it in the next major release, but the next major release is really the problem. Ryan had a 2.0 branch and vision that people are still using today which complicates things, since the vision was not shared and likely differ from where we are going today.

I haven't had the time to figure out what a 2.0 roadmap looks like, so at this point, I'm not sure unfortunately.

from cancancan.

I should clarify, I'd like to drop support in a major version because its (obviously) not backwards compatible.

from cancancan.

In my opinion the changes that were coming in the 2.0 version were like....a lot.

We should rethink about it as a "4.0 version" and leave it there for whoever wants to work on it...maybe Ryan will come back one day and start working on it again.

In the meantime I agree with you about the fact of making a new major release but I would also like not to wait so much for it and start working on the two main things you had in mind: drop support for Ruby 1.8 (more or less already done) and drop MetaWhere support switching to Squeel, or leaving Squeel support for a 2.2 release.

That is my obviously only my opinion...

from cancancan.

Yep, I'm using the branch 2.0 with MetaWhere. There are some rough edges (see my issues) but I like it. Since metawhere is dead, I also find switching to Squeel is a great idea.

from cancancan.

Done

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