Huiming Teo # @teohm

This 7-step guide is formulated based on our recent experience of performing multiple Rails upgrades on a client project, including a major version upgrade (4.x -> 5.0) and minor upgrade (5.0 -> 5.1).
Applicable to small/medium-size codebase, where your team is able to perform upgrade in a non-main branch....

Have you ever setup a Rails production environment from scratch, byhand? If you had, I share your pain every time when a new projectstarted.
The process is often repetitive. To me, it seems to be a waste to do itmanually every time. It also consumes time and attention. It would begreat if I could spend them on tasks that bring more values to clients....

When a Rails project grows, I often notice the need to refactor domain logic into a separate module, isolated from Rails framework.
The isolated module will still stay in the main Rails app codebase, but can be easily packaged as a Ruby gem, tested separately, and used in other related applications....

If you seldom use Ruby percent (%) notation in daily work, here’s aquick summary of what I picked up recently.
Delimiter allows any non-alphanum
You can use any non alpha-numeric character as delimiter: