--- title: "#377: Rails 5.2.0 Beta Released" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 377 published_at: "2017-11-30" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/377" --- #377: Rails 5.2.0 Beta Released This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/377) Ruby WeeklyIssue 377 — November 30, 2017 Official Rails Blog[Rails 5.2.0 Beta Released](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/11/27/Rails-5-2-Active-Storage-Redis-Cache-Store-HTTP2-Early-Hints-Credentials/)The latest 5.x release targets file uploads with Active Storage, a vastly improved Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 early hints support, and more. Bruno Antunes[Talking to ActionCable without Rails](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/talking-to-actioncable-without-rails)ActionCable makes it easy to work with WebSockets from Rails apps, but what about connecting a plain React frontend to a Rails API backend? Confreaks[48 Videos from RubyConf 2017](https://confreaks.tv/events/rubyconf2017)Didn’t get to RubyConf this year? Watch it online with all these videos. They’re [on YouTube too](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7tQUdRKcyayGHjjxZOmVEGsxX-rczZt), if you prefer. We’ll link to some of the best over the next few weeks too. Engine YardSponsored[PostgreSQL Replication Tutorial For Disaster Recovery](https://www.engineyard.com/blog/postgresql-replication-tutorial-for-disaster-recovery)If you want to move your Ruby on Rails application to AWS or discuss setting up a disaster recovery environment, contact us for a free consultation. 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