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Planned modification for migrating ch.oddb.org from Ruby 1.9.3 to Ruby 2.0/2.1/2.2
In parallel Niklaus wants to
- use docker to be able to run tests without blocking other works and/or being able to work on two branches concurrently
- Setup a small database with just a few (eg. 5 to 20 IKSNR) to speed up unit/watir tests
Stuff fixed includes:
return Iconv.iconv('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8', (s + ' ') ).first[0..-2]
by
string.encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?")
We will create a separate branch ruby2.0 for this new feature.
- Create gems (or at least github-projects therefor) for any gem that has patch (columninfo/row for dbi, notification for paypal)
- Migrate first all used gems to Ruby 2.0
- Update Gemfile to use current version of all gems
- Remove cruft
- Use a tool like https://github.com/danmayer/coverband on thinpower to identify unused code
Use (if possible) only one mail library (currently we are using mail, rmail and tmail). See ipn. Rmail is used by sbsm upto version 1.2.3.
- Fix changed syntax for Ruby 2.0/2.1
- Try whether rubinius or jruby offer compelling reasons (speed, used memory, better debugging/profiling tools) to switch from MRI
- Use Time.utc instead of Time.local to make unit-tests pass under travis-ci.
Gems that must run under Ruby 2.0 include:
- spreadsheet. Works fine with ruby 2.x. But we could live without it if we
- drop the compatibility mode in swissmedic-diff
- drop/migrate plugin/atc_less
- drop/migrate plugin/narcotic
- drop/migrate plugin/ouwerkerk
- drop/migrate plugin/vaccines
- swissmedic-diff
- sbsm which has the following problems
- rmail must be replaced by mail. Done with in github/ngiger/sbsm. See commit Use Mail instead of..
- sbsm uses uri_parset generated by rockit version 0.3.8 which cannot be found anymore. It is unclear for me, whether this is used at all or nor.
- dbi
- dbd-pg
Open problems are:
- We have some patches in Ruby (e.g. csv.rb, rexml/source.rb). Do we still need them? Shouldn't we better use monkey patching to avoid tinkering with installed rubies (and having to apply the patches each time we re/install a new ruby version)?
- YAML-Engine: Psych or Syck. For the moment I just required 'syck', but I don't know whether this will work with our Postgresql database. But Psych is now the default YAML under Ruby 2.x.
TestCases are:
- All unit test
- watir tests
- import_daily (with reimporting new BSV)
- export_daily
- GUI-admin interface to create new packages, etc.
Postponed tasks when Ruby 2.x ready:
- Remove LECACY_INTERFACE from all views