This gem contains some developer quality of life scripts and rails helpers.

To use the included rails helpers and rake tasks in your current rails project, add to the Gemfile:

group :development
  gem 'effective_developer'
end

Run the bundle command to install it:

bundle install

To use the included command line shell scripts in any directory, clone this repo:

git clone git@github.com:code-and-effect/effective_developer.git

and add the following to your PATH (edit your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile):

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/effective_developer/bin"

To use the included git hooks for all git repos, run the following:

git config --global core.hooksPath ~/effective_developer/githooks

To use the included command line shell scripts:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/effective_developer/bin"

A command line shell script to update a Gemfile and use any provided gems locally.

This makes it very quick to swich to developing a gem locally.

gem_develop should be run from the root directory of any rails app.

> gem_develop effective_datatables effective_resources

to change:

gem 'effective_datatables'
gem 'effective_resources'

into:

gem 'effective_datatables', path: '~/Sites/effective_datatables'
gem 'effective_resources', path: '~/Sites/effective_resources'

and execute bundle.

You can override the ~/Sites/ directory by setting ENV['GEM_DEVELOP_PATH'].

A command line shell script that quickly bumps the version of any ruby gem.

It checks for any uncommitted files, updates the gem's version.rb with the given version, makes a single file git commit with a tag and message, then runs git push origin master, gem build and gem push to rubygems.

gem_release should be run from the root directory of any ruby gem.

To print the current gem version:

> gem_release

To release a new gem version:

> gem_release 1.0.0

A command line shell script to update a Gemfile to find any locally developed gems, and update them to the most current released version.

gem_reset should be run from the root directory of any rails app.

Just run with no arguments:

> gem_reset

to change:

gem 'effective_datatables', path: '~/Sites/effective_datatables'
gem 'effective_resources', path: '~/Sites/effective_resources'

into:

gem 'effective_datatables'
gem 'effective_resources'

and execute bundle update effective_datatables effective_resources.

Careful, this command will delete all your un committed changes.

A command line script to call git reset --hard and also delete any newly created files.

It truly resets you back to a fresh working copy. Perfect for tweaking scaffold and code generation tools.

> gitreset

A command line script to delete any git branch that has already been merged into master & develop

> gitsweep

kill -9 the first running puma process. Bails out of SystemStackError (stack level too deep).

> killpuma

To use the included git hooks for all git repos, run the following:

git config --global core.hooksPath ~/effective_developer/githooks

Prevents pushing git commits that have the following bad patterns:

• Gemfile includes 'path: ' gems
• binding.pry

Exports all database tables to individual .csv files.

rake export:csv

Where table is the name of a model. Dynamically created rake task when a /lib/csv_importers/foos.rb file is present.

rake csv:import:foos

Scaffolds an Effective::CsvImporter file for each .csv file in /lib/csv_importers/data/*.csv

rake csv:scaffold

or

rake csv:scaffold[users]

Quickly rename a rails class throughout the entire app.

The script considers the .classify, .pluralize and .singularize common usage patterns.

Then performs a global search and replace, and renames files and directories.

rake rename_class[account,team]

or

rake rename_class[account,team,skipdb]

to skip any changes to database migrations.

If you ever run into the error duplicate key violates unique constraint (id) error, run this script:

rake reset_pk_sequence

This makes sure that the autoincremented (postgresql) Pk sequence matches the correct id value.

Creates a new backup on heroku, downloads that backup to latest.dump, and then calls pg:load

rake pg:pull
rake pg:pull[staging]

By default, any data in the logs table will be excluded. To include the logs data:

rake pg:pull logs=true

Drops and re-creates the local database then initializes database with the contents of latest.dump

rake pg:load
rake pg:load[something.dump]

Saves the development database to a postgresql .dump file (latest.dump by default)

rake pg:save
rake pg:save[something.dump]

Clones the production (--remote heroku by default) database to staging (--remote staging by default)

rake pg:clone
rake pg:clone[origin,staging]

Loads every ActiveRecord object and calls .valid? on it.

rake validate
rake validate[post]

Extend a class from Effective::CsvImporter to quickly build a csv importer.

Put your importer in lib/csv_importers/users_importer.rb and the data in lib/csv_importers/data/users.csv. Both filenames should be pluralized.

A rake command will be dynamically created rake import:users.

The importer requires two instance methods be defined:

• def columns a hash of names to columns. The constants A == 0, B == 1, upto AT == 45 are defined to work better with spreadsheets.
• def process_row will be run for each row of data. Any exceptions will be caught and logged as errors.

Inside the script, there are a few helpful functions:

• col(:email) will return the normalized value in that column.
• last_row_col(:email) will return the normalized value for this column in the previous row.
• raw_col(:email) will return the raw value in that column

module CsvImporters
  class UsersImporter < Effective::CsvImporter
    def columns
      {
        email: A,
        first_name: B,
        last_name: C,
        admin?: D
      }
    end

    def process_row
      User.new(email: col(:email), first_name: col(:first_name), last_name: col(:last_name), admin: col(:admin?)).save!
    end

  end
end

When using col() or last_row_col() helpers, the value is normalized.

• Any column that ends with a ? will be converted into a boolean.
• Any column that ends with _at will be converted into a DateTime.
• Any column that ends with _on will be converted into a Date.
• Override def normalize to add your own.

def normalize(column, value)
  if column == :first_name
    value.upcase
  else
    super
  end
end

Override before_import() or after_import() to run code before or after the import.

The goal of the effective_developer code generation project is to minimize the amount of hand coding required to build a rails website.

Only the rails model file should be written by a human.

All database migrations, controllers, forms and views should be generated.

Creating a new working in-place CRUD feature should be a 1-liner.

A huge head start to the interesting part of the code.

Scaffolding is the fastest way to build a CRUD rails app.

The effective scaffolds generally follow the same pattern as the rails generate commands.

To create an entire CRUD resource from the command line:

rails generate effective:scaffold thing name:string description:text
rails generate effective:scaffold thing name:string description:text --actions index show mark_as_paid
rails generate effective:scaffold admin/thing name:string description:text
rails generate effective:scaffold admin/thing name:string description:text --actions crud-show

Or to skip the model & migration:

rails generate effective:scaffold_controller thing
rails generate effective:scaffold_controller thing index show
rails generate effective:scaffold_controller thing index show --attributes name description
rails generate effective:scaffold_controller admin/thing crud mark_as_paid
rails generate effective:scaffold_controller admin/thing crud-show

If there is a regular rails model file present, all attributes, belong_tos, scopes and has_many accepts_nested_attributes will be considered when generating the scaffold.

Make a model file like this (or generate it with rails generate effective:model post name:string body:text and tweak from there):

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :category

  # Attributes
  effective_resources do
    title        :string
    body         :text
    published_at :datetime
  end

  validates :title, presence: true
  validates :description, presence: true

  has_many :comments
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :comments

  scope :published, -> { where.not(published_at: nil) }

  def to_s
    title || 'New Post'
  end
end

and then run

rails generate effective:scaffold post
rails generate effective:scaffold_controller admin/post

Tweak from here

You can call scaffolds one at a time:

# These two accept attributes on the command line. like effective:scaffold
rails generate effective:model thing name:string description:text
rails generate effective:migration thing name:string description:text

# Thes accept actions on the command line. Pass --attributes as an option. like effective:scaffold_controller
rails generate effective:controller thing  # /admin/thing
rails generate effective:route thing
rails generate effective:ability thing # CanCanCan
rails generate effective:menu thing  # If app/views/*namespaces/_navbar.html.haml is present
rails generate effective:datatable thing
rails generate effective:views thing
rails generate effective:form thing

You can do this:

Region.update_all("snippets = REPLACE(snippets, 'ActionController::Parameters', 'ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess')")

To find & replace content in the action_text_rich_texts body column:

Effective::ContentReplacer.new.count("foo")

and

Effective::ContentReplacer.new.replace!("foo", "bar")

MIT License. Copyright Code and Effect Inc.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Bonus points for test coverage
6. Create new Pull Request