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Rails Dual-boot + Dependabot = 💔?
There are two concepts which greatly affected how I work with Rails development during the last couple of years, specifically with dependency management and preparing for upgrading to the next Rails version.
The first one is Dependabot which opens pull-requests to update one dependency at a time. This way of working felt natural at once and allowed me to be on top of dependency updates instead of being scared of it 👻.
The second one is dual-booting my Rails applications using separate lock-files, I was introduced to this concept by fastruby.io and their blog post Getting Ready for Rails 6.0: How to Dual Boot.
Unfortunately the two do not work well together out of the box 💔.