End-of-life: Ruby 2.6 on 2022-03-31 & NodeJS v12 on April 2022 & Rails 5 estimated June 2022 - investigation results into Ruby, Rails, & NodeJS life extension

[jefferya]

Some initial work documented in the Ruby v2.6 and NodeJS v12 update issue around attempts to updated to Ruby v2.7 and NodeJS v14/v16

• Update Ruby to prepare for v2.5 end-of-life #702
  • dependency updates
  • ideas to address excessive logging messages (for example, URI.unescape deprecation warnings) - Update Ruby to prepare for v2.5 end-of-life #702 (comment)
  • includes reasoning for not moving to Ruby v3.0
• [WIP] Ruby 2.7 update: container, tests, dependancies #705
  • PR with Travis tests and devopment Dockerfile updated

Reference:

• https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/