RubyPlus #33

https://www.rubyplus.com/podcasts/381-Episode-33

• Nanoc - Static Site Generator
  • flexible static-site generator (a small personal blog to a large corporate website)
• Demystifying Rails
  • this book dives one layer below the surface to expose how Rails is pieced together
  • Launch School - Open Book Shelf
• Upgrading Shopify to Rails 5
  • Upgrading the Shopify monolith - one of the oldest and the largest Rails applications in the industry
    • from Rails 4.2 to 5.0 took us nearly a year.
• Helpful Resources for Your Rails App Upgrade
  • RailsDiff
  • Updating to Rails 5.0 · RailsApps
• Ruby Standard Gems
  • Default gems
  • Bundled gems
• Testing Cookies in Rails
  • rack-test get_cookie method
  • Timecop
• How We Upgraded A Very Large App from Rails 3 to Rails 4
  • BUNDLE_GEMFILE=Gemfile_rails4 bundle exec
• redis_dashboard
  • Sinatra app to monitor Redis servers
  • mount RedisDashboard::Application, at: "redis_dashboard"
• nplusone_control
  • expect { ... }.to perform_constant_number_of_queries.matching(/INSERT/)
• Replacing a Complex Regular Expression with a Simple Parser
  • Step through a string, character by character
  • Append each character to a buffer
  • When a token-separating condition is encountered, save the buffer to an array and empty it.
• What I learnt today from reading gems' code
  • Sidekiq
    • Sidekiq.redis_pool
    • yielding for configuration
  • ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging
  • self.new in a module
• ActiveRecord callbacks: an after_commit gotchya
  • callbacks can certainly enable bad design
• Ruby Code Formatter
  • GitHub - ruby-formatter/rufo: The Ruby Formatter - created by @asterite