by Vinicius Negrisolo on June 23, 2016 Rails 5 has a ton of new features. It addresses almost 500 issues and pull-requests dealing with performance, security and new features. I'm going to list step by step what you will need to migrate from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5.0. How to upgrade from Rails 4.2 to Rails 5.0 1 - Update ruby Rails 5 now requires Ruby 2.2.2 or greater. I suggest installing the latest