ruby on rails legacy on random thoughtshttps://awesomeprogrammer.com/categories/ruby-on-rails-legacy/Recent content in ruby on rails legacy on random thoughtsHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000Diary of Legacy Applicationhttps://awesomeprogrammer.com/blog/2012/12/16/diary-of-legacy-application/Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://awesomeprogrammer.com/blog/2012/12/16/diary-of-legacy-application/Some time ago I wrote two short stories (1, 2) about my journey with migrating legacy php application to rails. And yes - that’s topic is till on my plate :P. I didn’t had much time to push it till the finish (not mention posting on my blog), but I’m getting there.

Since I’ve started my small after-hours project quite a few things have changed, for example I:

  • said goodbye to HAML and welcomed SLIM

  • started using capybara-webkit instead of slow Selenium for integration tests with javascript enabled

  • cleaned up my helpers and moved some logic to decorators (I recommend checking out active_decorator)

  • hooked up thinking-sphinx for creating global (site-wide) search engine (works amazing and I truly recommend it for everyone)

  • created a devise&omniauth combo and allowed users to sign-in via google/facebook account

  • build simple xmmp (jabber) bot as a way of informing users about new replies/posts in observed topics on forum (using quite outdated xmpp4r library - I will came back to the topic after official release for sure, for now I’ll have to be be enough)

  • after a discussion with the editors of current site we have decided it’s time to evolve and choose markdown instead of bbcode after all. I’ve chosen redcarpet - with if bloody fast and really flexible - I’ve added some custom tags and support for emoji, created a neat editor based on markItUp, spiced it a little with some github like preview style and some at.js goodness

So yeah - quite a few things changed indeed and there is more to come. I hope when I will finish this project (and I mean here official release) I will find some time to write about gotchas I’ve encountered and some general tips when dealing with legacy application complete upgrade from my points of view :).

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Since I’ve started my small after-hours project quite a few things have changed, for example I:

  • said goodbye to HAML and welcomed SLIM

  • started using capybara-webkit instead of slow Selenium for integration tests with javascript enabled

  • cleaned up my helpers and moved some logic to decorators (I recommend checking out active_decorator)

  • hooked up thinking-sphinx for creating global (site-wide) search engine (works amazing and I truly recommend it for everyone)

  • created a devise&omniauth combo and allowed users to sign-in via google/facebook account

  • build simple xmmp (jabber) bot as a way of informing users about new replies/posts in observed topics on forum (using quite outdated xmpp4r library - I will came back to the topic after official release for sure, for now I’ll have to be be enough)

  • after a discussion with the editors of current site we have decided it’s time to evolve and choose markdown instead of bbcode after all. I’ve chosen redcarpet - with if bloody fast and really flexible - I’ve added some custom tags and support for emoji, created a neat editor based on markItUp, spiced it a little with some github like preview style and some at.js goodness

So yeah - quite a few things changed indeed and there is more to come. I hope when I will finish this project (and I mean here official release) I will find some time to write about gotchas I’ve encountered and some general tips when dealing with legacy application complete upgrade from my points of view :).

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