Okay, I've simplified the migration to *just* add the column, and
instead added a task to find assets without manifest URLs and backfill
them.
Performance is a lot better now, using the `async-http` library, which
as I understand it supports both persistent connections when invoked
like this, and maybe also HTTP/2 multiplexing?? (Though I'm not
actually sure images.neopets.com does lol)
I'm not sure about the number of concurrent tasks I picked here, 100
seems okay for an internet thing and for such small requests, but I
worry that the CDN is gonna get annoyed or something. Well, we'll see!
This task is very resumable if it turns out we get frozen out or
something.
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
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.
includes allowing null on some item fields, and putting the swf_assets
type and id index in an actual migration, or this commit would have removed
it upon migrating
