# Beyond Basecamp [Enrique García Cota](http://kiki.to) ([@otikik](http://twitter.com/otikik)) [Barcelona on Rails](http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-on-Rails/) - Nov 2014

#### [kikito.github.io/beyond-basecamp](https://kikito.github.io/beyond-basecamp)

# Intro

> I have opinions

# The Rails Way

## Basecampy Apps * One relational database + ActiveRecord * Light on the client-side * Conventions (helpers, erb, turbolinks, ...)

# Small deviations

## [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/)

> Relational Databases FTW

``` bash $ rails new myapp --database=postgresql ```

``` ruby # Gemfile gem 'sqlite3' ```

``` ruby # Gemfile gem 'pg' ```

## [CoffeeScript](http://coffeescript.org)

> CoffeeScript is better than Javascript

```ruby # Gemfile gem "coffee-rails" ```

```ruby # Gemfile # gem "coffee-rails" ```

```bash $ mv myapp.coffee myapp.js ```

```bash # Gemfile # gem "coffee-rails" ... gem "turbolinks"# -> coffee-rails ```

## [RSpec](http://rspec.info/)

> I consider rspec to have the worst DSL of any major piece of Ruby software.

```ruby # Gemfile group :development, :test do gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0' end ```

```bash rails generate rspec:install ```

```bash $ git clone github.com/rspec/rspec-rails $ cloc rspec-rails ```

### ☞ ~120 ruby files, ~4600 LOC

# Real-life example

### api.myapp.com/foo #⇩ ### myapp.apitools.com/foo

# Speed

* Overhead order: ~20ms * Roundtrip to our servers (worst case): 1s * Opensource self-hosted version available

github.com/apitools/monitor

# Security

1 nginx + 1 redis in 1 docker container = ## ~ 6MB

## APItools monitor

# ✘ ## Lots of DIY ## Very Bleeding Edge

# ✓ ## Fast, Safe ## Fun

# Multi-tenancy

## Provisioning API #### Divided into 3 parts:

### Restful API Server #### Built with Sinatra & Redis ``` bash $ curl http:://nixonserver.com/status => { "redis_connection" : true } ```

### CLI client #### Built with Thor ``` bash $ nixon assign af8bae 4 => Assigned container af8bae to account 4 ```

### Ruby client gem ```ruby # Gemfile source 'https://usr:pwd@geminabox.net' ... gem 'nixon-client' ... # Some controller / service nixon.accounts.put_to_sleep(slug_name) ```

# ✘ ## Triple work ## Naming

# ✓ ## Versatile

## Rails APP * MySQL database * Login access point * Contains account info * Connected with nixon via `nixon-client` * Hosts backups

# ✘ ## Many Classes ## Naming

# ✓ ## Small Classes ## Easy to test

# Routing

### api.myapp.com/foo #⇩ ### myapp.apitools.com/foo

# ✘ ## A bit DIY

# ✓ ## Small ## Zero-downtime deployment

![dwight](./img/dwight.jpg) [github.com/3scale/dwight-conrad](https://github.com/3scale/dwight-conrad)

# All together

          -------------------------
                    files      code
          -------------------------
          Ruby       599      16413
          Lua        147      10772
          Coffee      73       4380
          YAML        35       4263
          SASS        81       4206
          HTML        65       2581
          -------------------------
          SUM:      1000      42615
          -------------------------

# ✘ ## Complex ## DIY ## Naming

# ✓ ## Played to our strenghts ## Fun ## Works

## Conclusion

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## Questions? --- [Enrique García Cota](http://kiki.to) ([@otikik](http://twitter.com/otikik))

Thank you!