Canvas LMS upgradation plan to Ruby 3.0+

[sharathkumar]

@canadaduane , @treybean , @stderr , @jbasdf , @zwily @

Actually, we have a concern.

As per our organization's security vulnerabilities, they are following https://endoflife.date. our ruby version is going to end in 10 months. If it is in version 3.0+ we will get another 3 years. So can you please comment on my below concerns if possible?

https://endoflife.date/ruby https://endoflife.date/nodejs

Is our canvas LMS support ruby version 3.0? Is there any upgrading plan to ruby 3.0+? Is there any upgrading plan to NodeJs 18+? If yes, can you please update a tentative date for that releases?

[duncantmiller]

+1

[Mauraza]

Hi, is there any news about Ruby 3.0+ upgrade?

[maths22]

Canvas should work on ruby 3.1 and 3.0. It is passing all test cases internally on those rubies, and we are planning to roll out ruby 3.1 in our deployed environments in the next month or two.

[Mauraza]

Hi @maths22,

Thanks for answering! I'm trying to run Canvas with Ruby 3.0, but this error appears:

Ruby 3.0+ support is experimental

An error occurred while loading spec_helper. - Did you mean?
                    rspec ./spec/spec_helper.rb

Failure/Error: require_relative "../config/environment"

LoadError:
  cannot load such file -- pact/doc/markdown/generator
  ....
# --- Caused by: ---
# LoadError:
#   cannot load such file -- pact-messages
#   ./vendor/bundle/ruby/3.0.0/gems/bootsnap-1.13.0/lib/bootsnap/load_path_cache/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:29:in `require'

[maths22]

You need to update the version of canvas you are running. The Ruby 3.0+ support is experimental hasn't been in there since https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/commit/6fd442cf8b071b86f4f55a80abeb6bdfaf73fd95 was merged, so you must be attempting to run something older than that at present.

[Mauraza]

I will try a newer version! Thanks!!

[Mauraza]

Hi @maths22,

With the new version works perfectly with Ruby 3.0. Thanks for all!! ❤️

[kto2038]

Please update the following document. https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start#dependency-installation

[maths22]

Canvas is now running on ruby 3.1 in the SAAS production deployment and can be run on 3.1 everywhere. I'll go update the docs to reflect that.