Rails 5 ensures compatibility with Rack frameworks

Before Rails 5, there were errors in running integration tests when a Rack framework like Sinatra, Grape etc. were mounted within Rails with a motive of using its session.

Problems were reported at many places including github gists and stackoverflow regarding an error which was of the following form.

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2NoMethodError (undefined method `each' for #<ActionDispatch::Request::Session:0x7fb8dbe7f838 not yet loaded>): rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:158:in `stringify_keys'
3rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:95:in `update' rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:258:in `prepare_session'
4rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:224:in `context' rack (1.5.2) lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb:220:in `call'
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As we can see, the error occurs due to absence of method each on an ActionDispatch::Request::Session object.

In Rails 5, each method was introduced to ActionDispatch::Request::Session class making it compatible with Rack frameworks mounted in Rails and hence avoiding the above mentioned errors in integration testing.