Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails/

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What is CI?

Learn about CI and how it should be configured for our Rails application.

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CI configuration should be explicit and managed

The conventional meaning of continuous integration (CI) is a system that runs all tests and checks of every branch pushed to a central repositoryWhatisCI . When the tests and checks pass on some designated main branch, that branch is deployed to production.

This enables a common workflow, as outlined in the figure below. This workflow allows developers to create branches with proposed changes and have bin/ci execute those on the CI server to make sure all tests and checks pass. The team can do code reviews as necessary. When both bin/ci and code reviews are good, the change can be merged onto the main branch for deployment. The bin/ci command is run yet again ...

Prologue

Getting Started

The Rails Application Architecture

Start Our App Off Right

Business Logic

Routes and URLs

HTML Templates

Helpers

CSS

Minimize JavaScript

Carefully Manage the JavaScript We Need

Testing the View

Models I

The Database

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Business Logic Code is a Seam

Models II

End-to-End Testing

Controllers

Jobs

Other Boundary Classes

Authentication and Authorization beyond Rails

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API Endpoints

Sustainable Process and Workflows

Operations

Conclusion

Appendices

What is CI?