The past week had two great news: Ruby on Google App Engine went beta and Rails 5.0.0.rc1 was released. I decided it was a good opportunity to try both! This article relates my experience trying to run a very basic Rails 5.0.0.rc1 application on the Google App Engine. As a reference, I’m fairly experienced with Rails but I never really used the Google App Engine before. It’s also worth mentionning
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