Weekly Recap #3

[kaspth]

Hey everybody, here's the weekly recap!

In #20 I ended up describing a number of improvements, and then I got overwhelmed so I didn't get to that many of them. Sometimes that happens for me and it's almost like I have to preprocess a bunch of stuff before I can be creative on any of the next things.

I'll try to temper my expectations of what I can do in a week more in the future — if I over plan and get too far ahead I lost of track of actually being able to do the work. It's always a tightrope!

As an aside, if you're interested, a GoRails video I shot a while ago was just released. We go through some of my other Open Source gems in it, and talk a bit about extending Rails. You can watch it here.

PRs

• Add fixture converter #22 @BakiVernes added a converter so test/fixtures can be converted into our test/seeds. There's probably a lot more to do here!
• Quick upsert prototype #23 @codergeek121 added a prototype to let us use users.upsert :kasper, name: "Kasper" in addition to users.update :kasper, name: "Kasper". We're still running model validations before inserting so we know it's safe to use upsert.
• Add part-way compatibility with Fixtures #24 I added some compatibility with existing Fixtures so people can migrate to test/seeds in pieces. It's either/or on a per table basis since Fixtures will clear out existing tables before inserting anything — so if we try to mix them our insert complexity before running tests would be quite a bit more advanced.

Team Call

We had our first team call, thanks everybody who could make it for joining! I'm planning on doing a team call every 3 weeks on Thursdays at 8pm UTC+2, I'll post a heads up for the next one as I did for #21 soon.

I think it was quite euro-centric, so for those of you in the Americas let me know if we should find an extra slot for y'all!

Up next

Pretty much all the same stuff from #20 since I didn't get to much of that. Additionally, I'm having a call with @swanson this Friday to look more into what Arrows needs out of this tool and how we can improve it.

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Hope it's still going ok for y'all! I really enjoyed the team call, and I thought you had a lot of great questions.