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Technical Audit

Infrastructure Changes

https://github.com/sumitngupta/castjs/compare/010f19...5569066

All specs pass but there could be runtime errors.

Setup

Add instructions to:

• Clone the Ruby environment of Heroku's Cedar platform
• Start web server using foreman

All Environments

• Upgrade from Rails v3.0.10 to v3.2.1
• Change from MySQL to PostgreSQL
• Upgrade from redcarpet v1.x.x to v2.1.0 (Markdown renderer)
• Upgrade to coderay v1.0.5 (syntax highlighter)
• Remove thinking-sphinx (Heroku has an add-on replacement)
• Upgrade to whenever v0.7.2 (cron DSL)
• Upgrade from will_paginate v3.0.pre2 to v3.0.3
• Upgrade to jquery-rails v2.0.0 (jQuery UJS)
• Upgrade from omniauth v0.2.2 to omniauth-github v1.0.1 (authentication)
• Remove exception_notification (Heroku has an add-on replacement)
• Upgrade to ancestry v1.2.4 (similar to the acts_as_tree)
• Upgrade to cancan v2.0.0.alpha (authorization)
• Upgrade to papertrail v2.6.0 (model versioning)

Development & Test Environments

• Upgrade to rspec-rails v2.8.1
• Upgrade to launchy v2.0.5 (cross-platform browser launcher... used for test coverage)

Test Environment

• Upgrade to factory_girl_rails v1.6.0
• Upgrade to capybara v1.1.2 (acceptance tests)
• Upgrade to database_cleaner v0.7.1
• Upgrade to guard v1.0.0 (file system watcher)
• Upgrade to guard-rspec v0.6.0 (spec launcher)
• Upgrade to fakeweb v1.3.0 (web request faker)
• Upgrade to simplecov v0.5.4 (code coverage analysis)

Development Environment

• Upgrade to thin v1.3.1 (web server)
• Upgrade to nifty-generators v0.4.6 (generators from ryan bates)
• Remove capistrano (not needed for heroku)
• Upgrade to heroku v2.20.0 (production management)
• Add foreman v0.39.0 (service management for development and production)

Configuration Changes

• Clean up .gitignore files
• Remove Capfile and config/deploy.rb capistrano configuration
• Add Procfile for foreman
• Refactor APP_CONFIG to load from either config/app_config.yml or ENV for heroku compatibility
• Improve Rails.logger behavior for foreman compatibility in the development environment
• Remove debug_rjs configuration to fix Rails 3.1+ changes in the development environment
• Remove ExceptionNotifier configuration in the production environment
• Update the session_key and session_secret with new castjs values
• Replace the MySQL database configuration with PostgreSQL configuration
• Remove config/examples/production.sphinx.conf (will configure sphinx via heroku add-on)

Schema Changes

• Update schema.rb with PostgreSQL compatibility

Bug Fixes due to Changes

• Update RedCarpet API
• Fix PostgreSQL data coercion bug
• Update OmniAuth hash schema