rails.md

Rails Radar

• Replace YAML.load_file with Rails.application.config_for
  • Since Rails 4.2
  • https://www.justinweiss.com/articles/the-lesser-known-features-in-rails-4-dot-2/
• Use Rack Attack middleware
• Use fuubar formatter with RSpec
  • Outputs a progress bar
• Consider using the --fail-fast option to RSpec (when appropriate)
• Try using paraspec instead of parallel_specs
• Draper - presenter objects
• SimpleForm or Formtastic
• Pundit for authorization
• Rolify to define and manage roles
• Database cleaner gem for testing
• Shoulda matchers?
• Rails Best Practices
• RubyCritic
• Brakeman
  • static analysis vulnerability scanner
  • Railroader fork
    • because Brakeman is apparently no longer OSS
• Mina for deployment
  • Faster than Capistrano, because it uses a single SSH connection, instead of per command
  • Does not have rollback yet
• Ransack - build complex search forms
• Consider new alternative HTTP servers, instead of Puma
  • Falcon
  • Iodine
  • Agoo