A MIRACLE posted:

It's what happens when you decide to outsource development to a team of Eastern Europeans who don't speak English (our image gallery is spelled "Galery.rb") or care about things like unit test coverage, standards or best practices, and think it's okay to write 500 character SQL queries on a single LOC.

This is for a fairly prominent "daily deals" type site by the way, and the codebase is responsible for processing upwards of 200k in sales / day.

I was brought on last month because the higher-ups were all "oh poo poo we don't have any developers stateside." I'm basically the SQL monkey / put out fires ops guy right now but I'm pushing for a refactor / unit test project before any new features are added. We'll see. At least the pay is good for my area.

A MIRACLE posted:

It's what happens when you decide to outsource development to a team of Eastern Europeans who don't speak English (our image gallery is spelled "Galery.rb") or care about things like unit test coverage, standards or best practices, and think it's okay to write 500 character SQL queries on a single LOC.

This is for a fairly prominent "daily deals" type site by the way, and the codebase is responsible for processing upwards of 200k in sales / day.

I was brought on last month because the higher-ups were all "oh poo poo we don't have any developers stateside." I'm basically the SQL monkey / put out fires ops guy right now but I'm pushing for a refactor / unit test project before any new features are added. We'll see. At least the pay is good for my area.

Lexicon posted:

^^ Is MySql workbench really that bad? I've never used it, but assumed it was the de facto standard tool.

Lexicon posted:

^^ Is MySql workbench really that bad? I've never used it, but assumed it was the de facto standard tool.

Symposium posted:

Hobo is located at https://www.hobocentral.net - might want to edit your link.

• Symposium Live Demo: http://agathon.herokuapp.com/
  
• The tools I'm using
  
  
• Heroku (Cedar stack) for hosting. I pine for a hosting solution for my vBulletin forum where I could feed it more resources with a slider bar and watch the impact in New Relic. I'm no database admin, so I've been logging countless nights into trying to figure out why the community's server would die on me.
  
• Sorcery for authentication (logging in, logging out, current_user). It's much lighter and flexible than Devise. (github) (railscast)
  
• CanCan for authorization (the admin role can create forums, the member role can only edit their own topics, etc.). (github) (railscast)
  
• Twitter Bootstrap as a CSS framework. You'll notice that Symposium is clean and pretty in its live demo. I find development much more enjoyable when the application already looks alright from the first commit. It helps me think in turns of user experience as I code. It's also getting a responsive design in version 2.0. (website)
  
  
• bb-ruby for post formatting. It renders bbcode from @post.body into HTML in @post.rendered_body. bb-ruby is to bbcode as RDiscount is to Markdown.
  
  
  
  
• The implementation
  
  As you would imagine:
  
  
• Models: User, Forum, Topic, Post, Ability (for CanCan)
  
• User Roles: Admin, Member, Banned, Guest
  
• Associations
  
• Forums have many Topics
  
• Topics have many Posts
  
• Users have many Topics and Posts (as creator, so @topic.creator, @post.creator)
  
  Nesting:
  
  # routing
  resources :forums do
  resources :topics
  end
  resources :topics do
  resources :posts
  end
  
  
  

Oh My Science posted:

Why learn with Hobo?

Lexicon posted:

^^ Is MySql workbench really that bad? I've never used it, but assumed it was the de facto standard tool.

prom candy posted:

Have you tried https://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost

If that doesn't work you'll probably need to profile your requests somehow to figure out where the slowdowns are happening. Does it happen if you don't use the asset pipeline?

prom candy posted:

Have you tried https://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost

If that doesn't work you'll probably need to profile your requests somehow to figure out where the slowdowns are happening. Does it happen if you don't use the asset pipeline?

Bob Morales posted:

Can anyone give me some tips on speeding up Rails 3 apps in development mode?

We have Ruby 1.87 and while our Rails 2 apps are fine, I literally wait 20-40 seconds to re-load a page in development mode on my machine. The apps run fine our production server which is a 2.26GHz Xeon on RHEL 5 (L5520), but on either development machine I use, they're mind-numbingly slow. One is a Mac with 3.06GHz i3, 8GB, SSD, the other is a C2Q with 6GB running CentOS 6.3

The development DB is a MySQL server on the LAN and it seems pretty fast, it's just the rendering. If I do a ColorBox and put 'hello world' in it, it's like it takes 10 seconds to fill the box. I just installed thin and am trying that instead of Webbrick and it's not noticeably faster.

Shame Boner posted:

I think I did a bad thing. This morning, mysteriously my rails server wouldn't start. It was bombing out with the message /Users/ShameBoner/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@rails_3_2/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require': cannot load such file -- trace_nums (LoadError). I suspect that I properly hosed my gemset by doing a bundle update while rubygems.org's dependency API is down. I'm not sure what gem is responsible for the TraceNums class, but it seems to be missing. Is there any way to un-gently caress this gemset? For the time being, I had to go back to using my 1.9.2 version of Ruby.

Shame Boner posted:

I think I did a bad thing. This morning, mysteriously my rails server wouldn't start. It was bombing out with the message /Users/ShameBoner/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286@rails_3_2/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require': cannot load such file -- trace_nums (LoadError). I suspect that I properly hosed my gemset by doing a bundle update while rubygems.org's dependency API is down. I'm not sure what gem is responsible for the TraceNums class, but it seems to be missing. Is there any way to un-gently caress this gemset? For the time being, I had to go back to using my 1.9.2 version of Ruby.

Bob Morales posted:

Can anyone give me some tips on speeding up Rails 3 apps in development mode?

We have Ruby 1.87 and while our Rails 2 apps are fine, I literally wait 20-40 seconds to re-load a page in development mode on my machine. The apps run fine our production server which is a 2.26GHz Xeon on RHEL 5 (L5520), but on either development machine I use, they're mind-numbingly slow. One is a Mac with 3.06GHz i3, 8GB, SSD, the other is a C2Q with 6GB running CentOS 6.3

The development DB is a MySQL server on the LAN and it seems pretty fast, it's just the rendering. If I do a ColorBox and put 'hello world' in it, it's like it takes 10 seconds to fill the box. I just installed thin and am trying that instead of Webbrick and it's not noticeably faster.

mmachine posted:

A MIRACLE posted:

Wow, that seems kind of awkward, I didn't know people still inlined ruby in their javascript code. I hate to recommend js frameworks since it seems like you're already really far along with this method, but I've been really happy using either Angular, Backbone, or Knockout.js (with underscore.js as a utility belt) for my ajax-y goodness.

mmachine posted:

Ha! Well it definitely felt awkward.

I'm not opposed to using a JS framework, though I'm wondering if understanding how this works without the framework in place yet will get me a better handle on how these things talk together.

mmachine posted:

Ha! Well it definitely felt awkward.

I'm not opposed to using a JS framework, though I'm wondering if understanding how this works without the framework in place yet will get me a better handle on how these things talk together.

Cocoa Crispies posted:

Without the framework, it feels like a huge obtrusive hack. Send the form in a script when the page first loads, and use JavaScript to activate it when the click to edit field is clicked on.

mmachine posted:

I'm trying to understand how to implement click-to-edit functionality. I've seen some gems suggested for doing this, but since the purpose of the project I'm working now is to teach myself how to use RoR, I'd prefer to at least learn an implementation from scratch.

What I have so far is a page -- let's call it Edit Recipe -- that then allows a user to add and remove both Ingredients and Directions / Steps. I've been able to get far enough as to implemnent this functionality using AJAX, but now I've hit a wall when trying to implement a way to edit pre-existing data for each item. Say a user has entered a recipe direction -- I'd like to give them the ability to click on an edit call to action and then be able to change the content of the direction, submit and have it be saved.

Where I'm failing now is in getting the form partials -- let's use the _form for Directions as an example -- to render in the context of an Edit. So, say I have 4 directions listed, I do get a form rendered for each, though the form is for a create new direction, not an update existing.

So now, what I need to understand is what should be happpening to get those Direction forms to understand they should be appearing with the data for their respective record when they are placed into the DOM, AND also understand that on post, they are to edit their respective Direction record. The way the forms currently get placed is via a line of JavaScript that goes like this:


$('#direction_<%= direction.id %> .edit').click(function(){
$('#direction_<%= direction.id %>').append("<%= escape_javascript(render :partial => 'directions/form', :locals => { :direction => direction }) %>");
});
...and then the partial for my Direction _form (currently) looks like this:



<% if defined? direction %>

<%= form_for :direction, :url => { :action => 'edit', :id => direction.id }, :remote => true do |f| %>
<div class="input-append">
<%= f.text_field :content, :class => 'input-xlarge' %>
<%= f.submit :value => 'save', :class => 'btn' %>
</div>
<% end %>

<% else %>

<%= form_for([@recipe, @recipe.directions.build], :remote => true) do |f| %>

<div class="input-append">
<%= f.text_field :content, :class => 'input-xlarge' %>
<%= f.submit :value => 'add', :class => 'btn' %>
</div>

<% end %>

<% end %>


...where I'm trying to at least pass the Direction object along, thinking that's all the partial needs to render as an edit form. Of course now I have the problem of this not working, the form still thinking it's posting a new direction, and not editing a pre-existing one, so I'm missing something big on defining the controller resources to use for the form maybe? I was under the impression the partials would be conscious of a Direction object, and just do their thing automagically.

Lots I'm doing wrong practice wise too maybe -- for example, the contextual partial for the Direction _form seems awkward, but maybe that's the way to do this sort of thing?

EDIT: Sorry for the ugly formatting. Copypasta skills need some work too it looks like...

Physical posted:

Here's what I think is turning out to be a crazy question: how do I embed ruby tags in a string?

prom candy posted:

You might want to use a helper or something for this, you're going to punch yourself in the face when you have to edit that code in six months.

Physical posted:

What would the helper do? I intended to make some helpers since this was going to be used more than once and dynamic, but I'd like to know what you would suggest?

Siguy posted:

A few questions for you, Physical:

Why do you want to put it in an array?
Why don't you want it in a partial?

Or more generally: What's the view functionality you're trying to achieve?

I'm sure that what you want to do is possible (you already have a working version it seems), but this method definitely seems odd and makes me think you've crafted an elaborate solution to something that may already have a simpler, Rails-y solution.

In particular I'm wondering if your view is going to involve some big crazy array that has all the html for your page and ends up looking like:

code:

<html>
<body>
	<%= big_crazy_array[4] %>
	<%= big_crazy_array[85] %>
	<%= big_crazy_array[9] %>
	<%= big_crazy_array[0] %>
	Copyright Physical 2012
</body>
</html>

Physical posted:

So what you see me doing is trying to store an input field in a string so I can put that in an array, then output them later at will.

prom candy posted:

Generally if you find yourself doing variable assignment in your ERB you're doing something wrong.

Here's a really simple example of how to convert what you're doing to helper code, but you can probably clean it up a little better.

code:

module FormHelper
  def group(f)
    content_tag :div, :class => 'control-group' do
      f.label(:field_name, t('field_name'), :class => 'control-label) +
      content_tag :div, :class => 'controls' do
        select_tag(:field_name, options_for_select(["High", "Medium", "Low"], @item.field_name), :prompt =>"Please Pick a Field Name", :name => "item[field_name]", :selected => @item.field_name)
      end
    end
  end
end

# In your erb

<%= form_for @item do |f| %>
  <%= group(f) %>
<% end %>