AppdevSupport

This gem adds patches that are used to make Ruby and Ruby on Rails environments more beginner friendly.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "appdev_support", github: "firstdraft/appdev_support"

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install appdev_support

Run

AppdevSupport.init

to load the default settings.

Create an initializer file for customization.

Once installed, you can do things like:

# in app/controllers/events_controller.rb
class EventsController < ApplicationController 
  def index
    cookies.store(:theme, "dark")
    cookies.fetch(:theme)
    session.fetch(:user_id)
  end
end

and session.fetch will raise a KeyNotFound Exception.

.fetch can be called on session, cookies, and any ActiveRecord object. For an ActiveRecord object, you can .fetch a column.

Event.fetch(:starts_on) # => "Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:25:48"

Similarly, .store can be called on session and cookies with the expected behavior.

session.store(:user_id, 1)

Displaying an ActiveRecord::Relation in a View file will display:

Event::ActiveRecord_Relation (array with 4 Event instances inside)

You can call .at on an ActiveRecord::Relation instead of just [] to mirror how Arrays work.

Event.all.at(0)

If the containing app has pry or pry-rails installed, the print functionality has been enhanced: With the value :mimimal:

• ActiveRecord::Relation objects are displayed like this:

  pry(main)> Todo.all
  => Todo::ActiveRecord_Relation (array with 1 Todo instance inside)
  

With the value :debug

• ActiveRecord::Relation objects are displayed like this:

  pry(main)> Todo.all
  Todo Count (0.3ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "todos"
  Todo Load (0.2ms)  SELECT "todos".* FROM "todos"
  +----+-------+------+---------------------------------------------+
  | id | title | body | {:header_frequency=>10, :border=>:markdown} |
  +----+-------+------+---------------------------------------------+
  |  1 | test  | nope |                                             |
  +----+-------+------+---------------------------------------------+
  
    Todo Count (0.3ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "todos"
  => Todo::ActiveRecord_Relation (array with 1 Todo instance inside)
  

• Class objects are displayed like this:

  pry(main)> Todo
  => Todo(id: integer, title: string, body: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)
  
  The Todo class itself.
  

• All other objects are displayed like this:

  pry(main)> "hello, world"
  => "hello, world"
  
  An instance of the String class.
  

Add an initializer:

AppdevSupport.config do |config|
# config.action_dispatch = true
# config.active_record   = true
# config.pryrc           = :minimal
end
AppdevSupport.init

In a Rails app, this usually means creating a file in the config/ folder called appdev_support.rb

By default, these settings are true. Turn any of them off here. Options are currently grouped by highest parent class.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/firstdraft/appdev_support. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the AppdevSupport project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.