July 2025: The 'I shop, therefore I am' release

[denny]

The big news this month is the first merge of the ShinyShop plugin into the main branch!

Still a lot of work to do here, but 'release early, release often' as the famous saying goes 🙂

Shop aside, there were quite a lot of dependabot PRs this month, which have all gone in, mostly without a fight. There some minor squabbles around some rubocop changes, as is starting to feel standard. There was also a minor/patch upgrade for Ruby itself.

I changed buttons to links in a few places to make them less JavaScript-dependent, but eventually added rails-ujs back in explicitly to handle the others.

There was a major update to rails-pg-extras which got yanked shortly after release, but not shortly enough for me to avoid installing it, so that caused some excitement. I got it downgraded to the latest minor version before the mess, once I figured out what was going on.

There were also updates to rack, packwerk, pundit, view_component, and a load of monitoring gems and rubocop plugins (meaning all the rubocop-* gems I use are now the newer plugin style) as well as rubocop itself. I also added explicit config for bugsnag so that I could ignore some noisy 404s from spammy PHP exploit bots that were filling up my logs.

Full Changelog: v25.06...v25.07

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