We started on Rails 3.2 and on Rails 8 now. Some upgrades were harder than other...

thibaut_barrere · 2025-08-30T14:40:47 1756564847

Rails 2 to 3 was a bit more involved than others, also Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 !

But ultimately it got better IMO, indeed.

kiririn · 2025-08-30T13:34:05 1756560845

Not a Ruby/Rails person, but from a quick look there are still APIs named exactly the same between those versions. Very nice to see

On the other hand, Laravel decided to change from snake_case to CamelCase between versions 3 and 4, just because. Literally 0% compatibility

gkedzierski · 2025-08-30T14:01:38 1756562498

They also completely changed the project structure recently, which made 100% of previous tutorials and examples on the internet obsolete.

kyleee · 2025-08-30T15:26:00 1756567560

Ouch, I haven’t kept up to date. Have any links explaining? Thanks

gkedzierski · 2025-08-30T16:06:07 1756569967

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-11-directory-structure

Things which you were able to configure in the past, are now hidden. The meaning of many files (e.g. bootstrap) is now completely different. All different service provider classes are gone.