Being With Rails App For 3 Years
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This document summarizes the speaker's experience working with a Rails application for 3 years. It discusses how they improved the app over time by migrating to newer Rails versions, adding tests, upgrading gems, and implementing new features while reducing technical debt. It also provides tips for file structure, migrations, version control, and staying up to date with the Rails community through blogs and conferences. The speaker expresses appreciation for what Rails has given them and their view that it remains a good framework going forward.
Being With Rails App For 3 Years
- 1. Being With Rails App For 3 Years RubyHiroba 2014 生活発表会 2014-09-21 deeeki
- 2. Me • deeeki
- 4. Job • Freelance Programmer • Ruby / Rails
- 5. #mydev • Slidegate • http://slidegate.herokuapp.com/ • Talked at 個人開発を支える技術Night
- 7. Contributions • Rails (3 times) • DatabaseRewinder
- 10. Background of Talk • 3 years have gone since I start to work with Rails • Want to share something
- 11. Topics • How Did I Develop • Tips • Thoughts
- 12. How Did I Develop
- 13. Question • How long do you maintain your app at work?
- 14. A Rails App • Insurance Industry • Introducing Customers to Planners • Some Kind of Users • Customer / Planner / Admin …
- 15. Environment • Rails4.0 / Ruby2.0 • Apache / Passenger / MySQL • AWS (EC2 / RDS)
- 16. 1st Year: 2011
- 17. 1st Year: 2011 • A half year has passed since launching • 2 Developers and 1 Manager • Original Developer Has Quitted • Assigned a Subapp of Existing App
- 18. Stats • Some Complex Logic and DB Schema • Not Rails Way in Places • No Test
- 19. Mission • Launch a Subapp • Migrating Rails2 to 3 ! • Figure Out Somehow Finally
- 20. How to Learn • Rails Study Meetup at Tokyo • “Ruby on Rails 3 アプリケーションプログラミング” • RailsCasts • Existing Codes
- 21. Interval • Quitted the Job • 2 Months Later • Got an Offer as a Freelancer
- 22. the Most Impressive Commit
- 24. My 1st RSpec • Request Spec • CommitDate: Mon Oct 17 08:05:56 2011 +0900
- 25. Looking back - RSpec • New Feature with New Layout • "Write integration test first" • Got Relief and Comfort Beyond Expectation
- 26. Markup Improvement • Twitter Bootstrap • Haml • Simple Form
- 27. Drastic Changes • Replace 2 Admin Sites with Useful View Libraries • Mobile / Smartphone Site • Write Integration Tests Eventually
- 28. Summary of 2011 • Improve a Lot Because of Starting as a Beginner • Take Care of Choosing a Gem • Write Tests as Soon as Possible
- 29. 2nd Year: 2012
- 30. Summary of 2012 • Implement New Features • Return Technical Debts • Try Advanced Features • STI / Polymorphic Association Serialize
- 31. 2012: As a Freelancer • Try External Projects • CrowdWorks • Reuse Knowledge • RSpec / Bootstrap / Several Gems
- 32. 3rd Year: 2013
- 33. Big Upgrade • Ruby1.9 -> Ruby2.0 • Rails3.0 -> Rails3.2 -> Rails4.0
- 34. Issues to Upgrade • Outdated Gem • Meta Search -> Ransack • Assets Pipeline • Decided Not to Use
- 36. Looking back - Upgrade • Tests Help Us • Compromise is OK
- 37. 2013: As a Freelancer • Work Only With Offers • "Get work as a reward for work" • Try to Work Abroad
- 38. Tips
- 40. File Structure • Keep Rails' Structure as Possible • Put Non-Rails Files into “lib” • Put Custom Initialisers into Subdir • “YAGNI”
- 41. Migration • Use :after Option • Arrange Columns Meaningfully • **Only Available In MySQL** • Squach Migrations(Squasher)
- 42. Any Related Codes on VCS • Cron(Whenever) • EC2 scripts • Middleware Configuration • Apache / Logrotate
- 43. How to Keep Up
- 44. Surf the Internet • Twitter / GitHub • Follow Remarkable Developers • Hatena::Bookmark / Qiita • Read Feeds Filtered by Tag like “Rails”
- 45. rails commit log 流し読み なるようになるブログ id:y_yagi
- 46. GoRails “Continue your Ruby on Rails education.”
- 47. Ruby Weekly ! “once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.”
- 48. Thoughts
- 49. Principle • Keep Maintainable Codes • Taking Over Anyone Anytime • Follow the Rails Way • Convention over Configuration
- 50. About Rails • Enough for Me • Worry Only Using Rails • Go Well For the Near Future
- 51. Concerning • Team Development • Teach / Review
- 52. I appreciate • Gave Me a Lot of Things • Knowledge / Opportunity / People • Enjoyable
- 53. Recap
- 54. Recap • Share My Experience (And You?) • Tips for Maintainable Codes • Change Continuously
- 55. Thank You