Some important little upgrades but mostly straightforward!
Note that there's still a known issue where item searches crash, I was hoping that this was a bug in Rails 4.2 that would be fixed on upgading to 5, but nope, oh well!
Also uhh I just got a bit silly and didn't actually mean to go all the way to 5.2 in one go, I had meant to start at 5.0… but tbh the 5.1 and 5.2 changes seem small, and this seems to be working, so. Yeah ok let's roll!
Some tricks required here to get the dependencies to work out, but we got it!!
Oh also, we move away from the rbenv in Ubuntu's package manager, because it doesn't support more recent Rubies like 2.4.10.
This labeling technique hasn't worked in a long time bc it requires being logged in. These days we just manually label them with the 2020 support tools I think!
Clearing out the Neopets gem should help us manage some gem dep conflicts in the 4.2 upgrade too (I think the nokogiri one gets tricky?)
Idk exactly what's going on with dotenv-deployment, if it turns out it was critical to our deploy process then we'll change the deploy process! It's deprecated and conflicts with gem deps for `dotenv-rails`.
Grouping stuff a bit more sensibly and with explanations! I just finished deleting a bunch of gems we're not really using, and this helped me audit that the ones we still have here we generally actually want.
idk why we were pulling from git before, probably to get a feature that wasn't pushed to rubygems yet? But now the latest rubygems version matches the latest repo commit (both back in 2017 lol), so let's do that for greater stability and clarity!
At one point we piloted a "Camo" service to proxy HTTPS image urls for us, but it doesn't exist anymore.
We already have proxies and stuff for this, so I left `Image` as a placeholder for this, but it's not working yet!
This also deletes our final reference to the Addressable gem, so we can remove it!
I don't think these work anymore, and our volunteers get new items into the db fast anyway, Impress 2020 is doing better spidering these days. And then we get to remove the cron job `whenever` gem!
Yay, we've deleted all our background tasks!
We'll probably want to replace some of the basic functionality like certain caching? But we can deal with that as we run into it.
The direct motivation here was a seeming version conflict between Rails 4.2's rack dependency and latest Resque's rack dependency... but this is just nice complexity elimination regardless, we want this anyway :3
We've already swapped out the backend for this stuff to Impress 2020, so the resque task and the broken image report UI aren't actually relevant anymore. Delete them!
This helps us delete Resque soon too.
Rails 4 removed `attr_accessible`, and we should move away from it to (I think we'll need to by Rails 5?), but for now we can install this and move on!
We'll need to replace the item search query stuff with direct MySQL queries, but that's not ready yet bc the app still isn't booting, so we're committing this in a known broken state for now!
I haven't logged into newrelic in a billion years, let's just stop sending them stuff
(This is a precursor to an attempt to delete flex stuff too and replace our elasticsearch stuff with direct mysql queries like Impress 2020 does, but that'll be more work!)
NOTE: This doesn't boot yet! There's something changed in the `devise` API that we'll need to fix!
```
/vagrant/config/initializers/devise.rb:46:in `block in <top (required)>': undefined method `encryptor=' for Devise:Module (NoMethodError)
```
But yeah, we navigated the gem upgrades, and also I ran `rake rails:update` and hand-processed the suggestions it had for our config files.
Rather than figure out how to upgrade the Stripe gem to be compatible with future Rails, I'd rather just delete the references, since it's currently unused.
I'm not so bold as to go in and fully trash all our donation code; I just want to ensure we're not sending people down broken codepaths, and that if they reach them, the error messages are clear enough.
I'm just giving the app a very quick scan on critical pages, it's possible I'm missing some issues on paths that are harder to test rn like openneo_id auth, but I'll check in on that later I think?
None of these are private repos, so there's no reason to use the authenticated git protocol to download the stuff. (I guess this used to work because I had github creds set up on the machine that was running the app, whereas right now it's running in Vagrant, so yeah makes sense that it wasn't an issue before!)
I'm pretttty sure we fully do not need these, they were an attempt to solve the "contacting neopets.com is slow" problem, which we now solve by having other processes who are better at concurrency handle that request.
Okay this one was weird, the reference to the Parallel gem in `pet.rb` just, stopped working? Is that some weird downstream consequence of something we changed today, or has it just been broken for a long time and we just never ran that codepath? Seems… odd if we hadn't? But ok?
In any case, upgrading the gem seemed to fix whatever was causing it to not load in for whatever reason. Ok!
Confirmed features:
* Output (retrieval, sorting, etc.)
* Name (positive and negative, but new behavior)
* Flags (positive and negative)
Planned features:
* users:owns, user:wants
Known issues:
* Sets are broken
* Don't render properly
* Shouldn't actually be done as joined sets, anyway, since
we actually want (set1_zone1 OR set1_zone2) AND
(set2_zone1 OR set2_zone2), which will require breaking
it into multiple terms queries.
* Name has regressed: ignores phrases, doesn't require *all*
words. While we're breaking sets into multiple queries,
maybe we'll do something similar for name. In fact, we
really kinda have to if we're gonna keep sorting by name,
since "straw hat" returns all hats. Eww.
Use the ImageMagick flatten command to generate the output all at
once instead of compositing each layer individually, and download
the layers in parallel. On my box, saving roopal27 five times took
a total of 30 seconds before, whereas now it takes 7 seconds. I
expect it to be even better on the production box, where latency
is even lower.
Lots of scary bugs were being caused by the fact that the possibly-duplicate Neopets ID
was being treated as an SWF's real primary key, meaning that a save meant for object swf
number 123 could be saved to biology swf number 123. Which is awful.
This update gives SWFs their own unique internal ID numbers. All external lookups still use
the remote ID and the type, meaning that the client side remains totally unchanged (phew).
However, all database relationships with SWFs use the new ID numbers, making everything
cleaner. Yay.
There are probably a few places where it would be appropriate to optimize certain lookups
that still depend on remote ID and type. Whatever. Today's goal was to remove crazy
glitches that have been floating around like mad. And I think that goal has been met.
