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view templates are written in a language called ERB (Embedded Ruby) which is converted by the request cycle in Rails before being sent to the user.

Each action's purpose is to collect information to provide it to a view.

A view's purpose is to display this information in a human readable format.

routing file which holds entries in a special DSL (domain-specific language) that tells Rails how to connect incoming requests to controllers and actions.

You can create, read, update and destroy items for a resource and these operations are referred to as CRUD operations

A controller is simply a class that is defined to inherit from ApplicationController.

If not found, then it will attempt to load a template called application/new. It looks for one here because the PostsController inherits from ApplicationController

:formats specifies the format of template to be served in response. The default format is :html, and so Rails is looking for an HTML template.

:handlers, is telling us what template handlers could be used to render our template.

When you call form_for, you pass it an identifying object for this form. In this case, it's the symbol :post. This tells the form_for helper what this form is for.

that the action attribute for the form is pointing at /posts/new

When a form is submitted, the fields of the form are sent to Rails as parameters.

parameters can then be referenced inside the controller actions, typically to perform a particular task

params method is the object which represents the parameters (or fields) coming in from the form.

Active Record is smart enough to automatically map column names to model attributes,

Rails uses rake commands to run migrations, and it's possible to undo a migration after it's been applied to your database

every Rails model can be initialized with its respective attributes, which are automatically mapped to the respective database columns.

migration creates a method named change which will be called when you run this migration.

The action defined in this method is also reversible, which means Rails knows how to reverse the change made by this migration, in case you want to reverse it later

Migration filenames include a timestamp to ensure that they're processed in the order that they were created.

@post.save returns a boolean indicating whether the model was saved or not.

prevents an attacker from setting the model's attributes by manipulating the hash passed to the model.

If you want to link to an action in the same controller, you don't need to specify the :controller option, as Rails will use the current controller by default.

inherits from ActiveRecord::Base

Rails includes methods to help you validate the data that you send to models

Rails can validate a variety of conditions in a model, including the presence or uniqueness of columns, their format, and the existence of associated objects.

redirect_to will tell the browser to issue another request.

rendering is done within the same request as the form submission

Each request for a comment has to keep track of the post to which the comment is attached, thus the initial call to the find method of the Post model to get the post in question.

pluralize is a rails helper that takes a number and a string as its arguments. If the number is greater than one, the string will be automatically pluralized.

The render method is used so that the @post object is passed back to the new template when it is rendered.

it accepts a hash containing the attributes that you want to update.

field_with_errors. You can define a css rule to make them standout

belongs_to :post, which sets up an Active Record association

creates comments as a nested resource within posts

call destroy on Active Record objects when you want to delete them from the database.

Rails allows you to use the dependent option of an association to achieve this.

store all external data as UTF-8

you're better off ensuring that all external data is UTF-8

use UTF-8 as the internal storage of your database

Rails defaults to converting data from your database into UTF-8 at the boundary.

:patch

By default forms built with the form_for helper are sent via POST

The :method and :'data-confirm' options are used as HTML5 attributes so that when the link is clicked, Rails will first show a confirm dialog to the user, and then submit the link with method delete. This is done via the JavaScript file jquery_ujs which is automatically included into your application's layout (app/views/layouts/application.html.erb) when you generated the application.

Without this file, the confirmation dialog box wouldn't appear.

just defines the partial template we want to render

As the render method iterates over the @post.comments collection, it assigns each comment to

use the authentication system

require and permit

the method is often made private to make sure it can't be called outside its intended context.

存取資料庫是一種相對很慢的I/O的操作：每一條SQL query都得耗上時間、執行回傳的結果也會被轉成ActiveRecord物件全部放進記憶體

如果需要撈出全部的資料做處理，強烈建議最好不要用all方法，因為這樣會把全部的資料一次放進記憶體中，如果資料有成千上萬筆的話，效能就墜毀了。

.find_each( :batch_size => 100 )

.find_in_batches( :batch_size => 100 )

在Transaction交易範圍內的SQL效能會加快，因為最後只需要COMMIT一次即可

Elasticsearch全文搜尋引擎和elasticsearch-rails gem

QueryReviewer這個套件透過SQL EXPLAIN分析SQL query的效率

必要時可以採用逆正規化的設計。犧牲空間，增加修改的麻煩，但是讓讀取這事件變得更快更簡單。

將成本轉嫁到寫入，而最佳化了讀取時間

在效能還沒有造成問題前，就為了優化效能而修改程式和架構，只會讓程式更混亂不好維護

當效能還不會造成問題時，程式的維護性比考慮效能重要

會拖慢整體效能的程式，只佔全部程式的一小部分而已，所以我們只最佳化會造成問題的程式。

善用分析工具找效能瓶頸，最佳化前需要測量，最佳化後也要測量比較。

rack-mini-profiler在頁面的左上角顯示花了多少時間，並且提供報表，推薦安裝

如果是不需要權限控管的靜態檔案，可以直接放在public目錄下讓使用者下載。

Web伺服器得先安裝好x_sendfile功能

如果要讓你的Assets例如CSS, JavaScript, Images也讓使用者透過CDN下載，只要修改config/environments/production.rb的config.action_controller.asset_host為CDN網址即可。

有時候「執行速度較快」的程式碼不代表好維護、好除錯的程式碼

Ruby不是萬能，有時候直接呼叫外部程式是最快的作法

It doesn't matter which domains are serving your APIs, so Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) won't be an issue as it doesn't use cookies.

WT and SAML tokens can use a public/private key pair in the form of a X.509 certificate for signing.

A client application is connected to the primary via MySQL Router

MySQL Shell also requires Python 2.7 and above to run cluster provisioning scripts

AdminAPI, which enables you to create and administer an InnoDB cluster, using either JavaScript or Python scripting

Caches the metadata of the InnoDB cluster and performs high availability routing to the MySQL Server instances which make up the cluster

Group Replication mechanism to allow data to be replicated from the primary to the secondaries in the cluster

AdminAPI is available as of MySQL Shell 1.0.8.

A minimum of three instances are required to create an InnoDB cluster

config/environments/production.rb

Create an additional staging environment that closely resembles the production one

Keep any additional configuration in YAML files under the config/ directory

Rails::Application.config_for(:yaml_file)

Use nested routes to express better the relationship between ActiveRecord models

nest routes more than 1 level deep then use the shallow: true option

namespaced routes to group related actions

Keep the controllers skinny

all the business logic should naturally reside in the model

Share no more than two instance variables between a controller and a view.

using a template

Prefer corresponding symbols to numeric HTTP status codes

without abbreviations

Keep your models for business logic and data-persistence only

Avoid altering ActiveRecord defaults (table names, primary key, etc)

Prefer has_many :through to has_and_belongs_to_many

self[:attribute]

self[:attribute] = value

validates

Consider extracting custom validators to a shared gem

preferable to make a class method instead which serves the same purpose of the named scope

.update_attributes

Override the to_param method of the model

Use the friendly_id gem. It allows creation of human-readable URLs by using some descriptive attribute of the model instead of its id

.find_each

.find_each

Looping through a collection of records from the database (using the all method, for example) is very inefficient since it will try to instantiate all the objects at once

always call before_destroy callbacks that perform validation with prepend: true

When persisting AR objects

Avoid string interpolation in queries

param will be properly escaped

Consider using named placeholders instead of positional placeholders

use of find over where when you need to retrieve a single record by id

use of find_by over where and find_by_attribute

use of where.not over SQL

use heredocs with squish

Use rake db:schema:load instead of rake db:migrate to initialize an empty database

change_column_default

imposing data integrity from the Rails app is impossible

use the change method instead of up and down methods.

constructive migrations

use models in migrations, make sure you define them so that you don't end up with broken migrations in the future

In this case, block will be used by create_table in rollback

Never make complex formatting in the views, export the formatting to a method in the view helper or the model.

When the labels of an ActiveRecord model need to be translated, use the activerecord scope

Separate the texts used in the views from translations of ActiveRecord attributes

config/application.rb config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('config', 'locales', '**', '*.{rb,yml}')]

I18n.t

I18n.l

Use "lazy" lookup for the texts used in views.

Use the dot-separated keys in the controllers and models

Reserve app/assets for custom stylesheets, javascripts, or images

Third party code such as jQuery or bootstrap should be placed in vendor/assets

Provide both HTML and plain-text view templates

config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true

Use a local SMTP server like Mailcatcher in the development environment

Provide default settings for the host name

The _url methods include the host name and the _path methods don't

Format the from and to addresses properly

default from:

sending html emails all styles should be inline

Sending emails while generating page response should be avoided. It causes delays in loading of the page and request can timeout if multiple email are sent.

.start_with?

.end_with?

&.

Config your timezone accordingly in application.rb

config.active_record.default_timezone = :local

it can be only :utc or :local

Time.zone.parse

Time.zone.now

Vegeta was designed to be run on the command line; it reads from stdin a list of HTTP transactions to generate, and sends results in binary format to stdout,

Vegeta is a really strong tool that caters to people who want a tool to test simple, static URLs (perhaps API end points) but also want a bit more functionality.

Vegeta can even be used as a Golang library/package if you want to create your own load testing tool.

Wrk is so damn fast

being fast and measuring correctly is about all that Wrk does

k6 is scriptable in plain Javascript

k6 is average or better. In some categories (documentation, scripting API, command line UX) it is outstanding.

Jmeter is a huge beast compared to most other tools.

Siege is a simple tool, similar to e.g. Apachebench in that it has no scripting and is primarily used when you want to hit a single, static URL repeatedly.

A good way of testing the testing tools is to not test them on your code, but on some third-party thing that is sure to be very high-performing.

use a tool like e.g. top to keep track of Nginx CPU usage while testing. If you see just one process, and see it using close to 100% CPU, it means you could be CPU-bound on the target side.

If you see multiple Nginx processes but only one is using a lot of CPU, it means your load testing tool is only talking to that particular worker process.

Network delay is also important to take into account as it sets an upper limit on the number of requests per second you can push through.

If, say, the Nginx default page requires a transfer of 250 bytes to load, it means that if the servers are connected via a 100 Mbit/s link, the theoretical max RPS rate would be around 100,000,000 divided by 8 (bits per byte) divided by 250 => 100M/2000 = 50,000 RPS. Though that is a very optimistic calculation - protocol overhead will make the actual number a lot lower so in the case above I would start to get worried bandwidth was an issue if I saw I could push through max 30,000 RPS, or something like that.

Wrk managed to push through over 50,000 RPS and that made 8 Nginx workers on the target system consume about 600% CPU.

by default they react to !commands in your chatroom. Commands can also trigger on regular expression matches, with or without a bot prefix.

Errbot also supports Markdown responses with Jinja2 templating.

Errbot supports webhooks; It has a small web server that can translate endpoints to your custom plugins.

It’s recommended that you configure this behind a web server such as nginx or Apache.

It works with the If This Then That (IFTTT) principle, meaning that you define a set of rules that the system then uses to take action.

Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby. Like the other bots I’ve mentioned, it is also open source and supports different chat platforms via plugins.

Gort is a newer entrant to the ChatOps space. As the name suggests it has been written in Go, and it is still under active development.

can persist information in databases, supports advanced parsers, and is extendable with custom skills.