In development we regularly restart/reload Rails, which wipes out the schema cache. This then has to be regenerated using DDL queries on the database.
Instead, we can make use of the `rake db:schema:cache:dump` command. This will dump the schema cache to a YAML file, and then load it when needed. This is significantly faster than rebuilding the cache from DDL queries every time.
On every request, Rails checks to see whether any ruby code has been changed on the filesystem. The default FileUpdateChecker does this by iterating over every file on the autoload_paths and comparing its modified-time.
In Discourse, our autoload path of `/app` includes the `/app/assets` directory, and therefore thousands of non-ruby files (e.g. node_modules). This makes the `Dir["/app"]` call very slow (>100ms in my case). On my machine, every Rails-handled request spends around 150-200ms in the FileUpdateChecker. This commit introduces a couple of changes to completely eliminate this wasted time:
- The `/app/assets` directory is excluded from the file watchers. For me, this cut the time spent in the file_watcher to around 50-100ms
- Switches our development config to use the `EventedFileUpdateChecker`, which makes use of the `listen` gem to subscribe to os-specific notifications of changes. This completely removes the `FileUpdateChecker` from the critical path
On my machine, topic_list requests now return in around 80ms (previously >200ms). Live code reload still works as it did before
It's important that we don't perform pg_dumps against databases
running behind pgbouncer.
We had an old monkey-patch to prevent this, but following some [recent
internal rails refactoring](5488686851),
the patch no longer works. Instead, we can use the official
`config.active_record.dump_schema_after_migration` option.
Setting this to false in production is recommended by Rails, and is the
default for newly generated Rails applications.
Background: RFC 8314 3.3 asks that:
clients and servers SHOULD implement both STARTTLS on
port 587 and Implicit TLS on port 465
Discourse currently cannot be configured this way.
With this patch, it's possible to set
DISCOURSE_SMTP_FORCE_TLS=true to use implicit TLS on port 465
If RAILS_DISABLE_ACTIVERECORD_LOGS=1 is passed when starting Rails, none of the query log output will show. This is very useful for debugging with breakpoints because logs are not flooding in constantly.
This is where they should be as far as ember is concerned. Note this is
a huge commit and we should be really careful everything continues to
work properly.
byebug, ruby-prof, better_errors and rbtrace are very MRI specific, flag
them as such
This helps move forward on potential jruby and truffleruby experiments
The env var `RAILS_ENABLE_TEST_LOG` didn't seem to do anything if enabled. This now sets the logger to STDOUT if `RAILS_ENABLE_TEST_LOG` is enabled and also introduces `RAILS_TEST_LOG_LEVEL` so the level of the logging in the console can be provided (default info).
Note: I am not sure if the original behaviour is expected. I can add an additional env var to enable the STDOUT logging if required
- Refactor source_url to avoid using eval in development
- Precompile handlebars in development
- Include template compilers when running qunit
- Remove unsafe-eval in development CSP
- Include unsafe-eval only for qunit routes in development
From the better_errors README:
> Better Errors works by leaving a lot of context in server process memory. If you're using a web server that runs multiple "workers" it's likely that a second request (as happens when you click on a stack frame) will hit a different worker. That worker won't have the necessary context in memory, and you'll see a Session Expired message.
After a small conversation, we decided that we can set `public_file_server.enabled` to false in the `test` environment to have the same value as `production`.
This renames the DISCOURSE_ENV_HOST var @eviltrout introduced in 95a9a544
to DISCOURSE_ENV_HOSTS and allows for a comma delimited list of hosts
This is useful for testing plugins and customized host names
Rails 6 seems to introduce a whitelist of allowed hosts. I personally
use `dev.local` for development and this no longer works.
This introduces a new ENV variable, `DISCOURSE_DEV_HOST`. If present,
it will whitelist that host for development mode.
This reduces chances of errors where consumers of strings mutate inputs
and reduces memory usage of the app.
Test suite passes now, but there may be some stuff left, so we will run
a few sites on a branch prior to merging
* Do not brotli all locales in precompile
* Try without gzip
* uglify without compressing, always gzip
* skip uglify for unused locales
* FIX: Uglifier needs harmony for ES6 compatibility
* Use node uglifier if available
* Minor refactor
It is not a setting, and only relevant in specs. The new API is:
```
Jobs.run_later! # jobs will be thrown on the queue
Jobs.run_immediately! # jobs will run right away, avoid the queue
```
This allows our request specs to report exceptions so we can debug
May have a few false positives but generally should be quiet
TODO only wire magic in for request specs, currently happens for all
This change-set allows setting different defaults for different locales.
It also:
- Adds extensive testing around site setting validation
- raises deprecation error if site setting has the default property based on env
- relocated site settings for dev and tests in the initializer
- deprecated client_setting in the site setting's loading process
- ensure it raises when a enum site setting being set
- default_locale is promoted to `required` category.
- fixes incorrect default setting and validation
- fixes ensure type check for site settings
- creates a benchmark for site setting
- sets reasonable defaults for Chinese