Rails 8.1.3

[abcampo-iry]

Status

• Closes 1291 Upgrade critical dependencies #813

Points for consideration:

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/8_1_release_notes.html

What's changed?

Only updated the Gemfile and agents.md

Steps to perform after deploying to production

If the production environment requires any extra work after this PR has been deployed detail it here. This could be running a Rake task, a migration, or upgrading a Gem. That kind of thing.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Upgrades the application’s Rails dependency to 8.1.3, updates the Rails default configuration version, and aligns repository documentation with the new Rails baseline.

Changes:

• Bump rails from ~> 8.0.5 to ~> 8.1.3 and refresh Gemfile.lock accordingly (including new Rails 8.1 transitive deps like action_text-trix).
• Update config.load_defaults from 8.0 to 8.1 to adopt Rails 8.1 framework defaults.
• Update AGENTS.md to reflect the Rails 8.1 monolith status.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
Gemfile	Pins Rails to ~> 8.1.3.
Gemfile.lock	Updates all Rails component gems to 8.1.3 and adjusts transitive dependencies.
config/application.rb	Moves app defaults to Rails 8.1.
AGENTS.md	Updates documentation to state Rails 8.1.

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[github-actions]

Test coverage

91.05% line coverage reported by SimpleCov.
Run: https://github.com/RaspberryPiFoundation/editor-api/actions/runs/25796213736

[zetter-rpf]

Great! Excited to be on the latest version again.

As before, I think it would be good keep an eye on alerts and metrics when we deploy this - let me know when you want to deploy to production.