Remove spring as a default installation option #42997
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Faster computers have meant that most apps won't see a big benefit from Spring on small to moderate size apps. Thus the pain of dealing with the occasional spring issue is no longer warranted by default.
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Spring seems to be on the way out. The repo doesn't get much attention
(very few PRs are accepted and there are many open issues), and new gem
versions have been published rarely (3 releases in the last 4 years).
And recently spring was just removed from rails itself: in the next
version of rails, spring is no longer included in apps generated via
`rails new` and there is not even an option for it. The argument is that
computers have gotten fast enough that spring is no longer worth the
occasional debugging headaches. ("Why isn't this working? Oh I guess I
needed to restart spring.")
rails/rails#42997
Spring might still have value for very large apps that have long boot
times. But since raygun is used for greenfield projects, we should
remove it, considering it probably will become more and more of a niche
gem going forward.
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Spring seems to be on the way out. The repo doesn't get much attention
(very few PRs are accepted and there are many open issues), and new gem
versions have been published rarely (3 releases in the last 4 years).
And recently spring was just removed from rails itself: in the next
version of rails, spring is no longer included in apps generated via
`rails new` and there is not even an option for it. The argument is that
computers have gotten fast enough that spring is no longer worth the
occasional debugging headaches. ("Why isn't this working? Oh I guess I
needed to restart spring.")
rails/rails#42997
Spring might still have value for very large apps that have long boot
times. But since raygun is used for greenfield projects, we should
remove it, considering it probably will become more and more of a niche
gem going forward.
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* Remove spring gem ref. rails/rails#42997 * Delete spring * Remove spring from binstubs
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Remove spring as a default installation option rails/rails#42997
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Spring is a gem that is supposed to speed up application development with Rails by keeping some things running in the background. In reality, this isn't needed on small to medium scale projects with relatively modern computers, and Spring is infamous for making development harder because of odd behavior (stale caches, etc). Rails recently [removed Spring from its default gems](rails/rails#42997), and we should too.
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In the process of removing spring, rails#42997 added a comment for `config.cache_classes`. Through that PR and subsequent revisions the comment has gotten a bit confusing - it doesn't explain what the `enable_reloading` setting does, just how to revert it if you are using Spring (which isn't included in new apps anymore). So this PR just updates the template with a comment about what the setting does. If someone really wants to use Spring there's other places to learn about how to change this setting, as that's not a default path we're encouraging anymore.
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Follows rails/rails#42997
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Faster computers have meant that most apps won't see a big benefit from Spring on small to moderate size apps. Thus the pain of dealing with the occasional spring issue is no longer warranted by default.