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Drop EOL Ruby and Rails versions

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Description

When we release factory_bot 7, we should stop testing against any end-of-life Ruby versions (probably 2.5 and 2.6 by the time we release - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/).

Similarly for Rails, we stop testing against 5.0, 5.1, and possibly 5.2 - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the release and test configuration that defines supported Ruby and Rails versions. Check the Ruby and Rails maintenance-policy links in the issue, then identify the EOL versions to remove when preparing factory_bot 7. Done means the test matrix no longer includes the selected unsupported versions and the remaining supported versions still pass.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rails, ruby
Domain
ci-cd, testing
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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