CONTRIBUTING.md

Tips for Contributors

• See docs/contributor-info/Releasing for instructions on releasing.
• See other docs in docs/contributor-info

Sumary

For non-doc fixes:

• Provide changelog entry in the unreleased section of the CHANGELOG.md.
• Ensure CI passes and that you added a test that passes with the fix and fails without the fix.
• Squash all commits down to one with a nice commit message ONLY once final review is given. Make sure this single commit is rebased on top of master.
• Please address all code review comments.
• Ensure that docs are updated accordingly if a feature is added.

Commit Messages

From How to Write a Git Commit Message

The seven rules of a great git commit message

Keep in mind: This has all been said before.

1. Separate subject from body with a blank line
2. Limit the subject line to 50 characters
3. Capitalize the subject line
4. Do not end the subject line with a period
5. Use the imperative mood in the subject line
6. Wrap the body at 72 characters
7. Use the body to explain what and why vs. how

To run tests:

• After updating code via git, to prepare all examples and run all tests:

bundle && npm i && rake examples:prepare_all && rake node_package && rake

In order to run tests in browser

npm i -g browserify babelify tape-run faucet
browserify -t babelify node_package/tests/*.js | tape-run | faucet

See Dev Initial Setup, below for, well... initial setup.

IDE/IDE SETUP

It's critical to configure your IDE/editor to ignore certain directories. Otherwise your IDE might slow to a crawl!

• /coverage
• /tmp
• /gen-examples
• /node_package/lib
• /node_modules
• /spec/dummy/app/assets/webpack
• /spec/dummy/log
• /spec/dummy/node_modules
• /spec/dummy/client/node_modules
• /spec/dummy/tmp
• /spec/react_on_rails/dummy-for-generators

Configuring your test app to use your local fork

Ruby Gem

If you want to test the gem with an application before you release a new version of the gem, you can specify the path to your local version via your test app's Gemfile:

gem "react_on_rails", path: "../path-to-react-on-rails"

Note that you will need to bundle install after making this change, but also that you will need to restart your Rails application if you make any changes to the gem.

NPM for react-on-rails

First, be sure to build the NPM package

npm i
npm run build

Use a relative path in your package.json, like this:

cd client
npm install --save "react-on-rails@../../react_on_rails"

When you use a relative path, be sure to run the above npm install command whenever you change the node package for react-on-rails.

Wihle we'd prefer to us npm link, we get errors. If you can figure out how to get npm link react-on-rails to work with this project, please file an issue or PR! This used to work with babel 5.

This is the error:

16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 | ERROR in /react_on_rails/node_package/lib/ReactOnRails.js
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 | Module build failed: ReferenceError: Unknown plugin "react-transform" specified in "base" at 0, attempted to resolve relative to "/react_on_rails/node_package/lib"
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at /react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:193:17
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at Array.map (native)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at Function.normalisePlugins (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:173:20)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at OptionManager.mergeOptions (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:271:36)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at OptionManager.init (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:416:10)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at File.initOptions (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:191:75)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at new File (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:122:22)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at Pipeline.transform (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/pipeline.js:42:16)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at transpile (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-loader/index.js:14:22)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |     at Object.module.exports (/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/client/node_modules/babel-loader/index.js:88:12)
16:34:11 rails-client-assets.1 |  @ ./app/bundles/comments/startup/clientRegistration.jsx 15:20-45

Development Setup for Gem and Node Package Contributors

Checklist before Committing

1. rake: runs all linters and specs (you need Docker setup, see below)
2. Did you need any more tests for your change?
3. Did you document your change? Update the README.md?

Dev Initial Setup

Prereqs

After checking out the repo, making sure you have rvm and nvm setup (setup ruby and node), cd to spec/dummy and run bin/setup to install ruby dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Additionally, our RSpec tests use the poltergeist web driver. You will need to install the phantomjs node module:

npm install -g phantomjs

Note this must be installed globally for the dummy test project rspec runner to see it properly.

NPM link

Because the example and dummy apps rely on the react-on-rails node package, they should link directly to your local version to pick up any changes you may have made to that package. To achieve this, switch to the app's root directory and run:

npm run node_package

From now on, the example and dummy apps will use your local node_package folder as the react-on-rails node package. This will also be done automatically for you via the rake examples:prepare_all rake task.

Side note: It's critical to use the alias section of the webpack config to avoid a double inclusion error. This has already been done for you in the example and dummy apps, but for reference:

  resolve: {
    alias: {
      react: path.resolve('./node_modules/react'),
    },
  },

Install NPM dependencies and build the NPM package for react-on-rails

cd <top level>
npm i
npm build

Or run this which builds the npm package, then the webpack files for spec/dummy, and runs tests in spec/dummy.

# Optionally change default selenium_firefox driver
export DRIVER=poltergeist
cd <top level>
npm dummy:spec

Run NPM JS tests

cd <top level>
npm test

Run spec/dummy tests

cd spec/dummy
npm run test

Run most tests and linting

cd <top level>
node_package/scripts/ci

Starting the Dummy App

To run the test app, it's CRITICAL to not just run rails s. You have to run foreman start. If you don't do this, then webpack will not generate a new bundle, and you will be seriously confused when you change JavaScript and the app does not change. If you change the webpack configs, then you need to restart foreman. If you change the JS code for react-on-rails, you need to run node_package/scripts/build. Since the react-on-rails package should be sym linked, you don't have to npm i react-on-rails after every change.

RSpec Testing

Run rake for testing the gem and spec/dummy. Otherwise, the rspec command only works for testing within the sample apps, like spec/dummy.

If you run rspec at the top level, you'll see this message: require': cannot load such file -- rails_helper (LoadError)

After running a test, you can view the coverage results SimpleCov reports by opening coverage/index.html.

To test spec/dummy against Turbolinks 5, install the gem by running ENABLE_TURBOLINKS_5=TRUE bundle install in the spec/dummy directory before running rake.

Debugging

Start the sample app like this for some debug printing:

TRACE_REACT_ON_RAILS=true && foreman start

Install Generator

In your Rails app add this gem with a path to your fork.

gem 'react_on_rails', path: '../relative/path/to/react_on_rails'

The main installer can be run with rails generate react_on_rails:install

Testing the Generator

The generators are covered by generator tests using Rails's generator testing helpers, but it never hurts to do a sanity check and explore the API. See generator_testing_script.md for a script on how to run the generator on a fresh project.

Linting

All linting is performed from the docker container for CI. You will need docker and docker-compose installed locally to lint code changes via the lint container. You can lint locally by running node_package/scripts/lint

• Install Docker Toolbox for Mac
• Install Docker Compose for Linux

Once you have docker and docker-compose running locally, run docker-compose build lint. This will build the reactonrails_lint docker image and docker-compose lint container. The initial build is slow, but after the install, startup is very quick.

Linting Commands

Run rake lint.

Alternately with Docker:

Run rake -D docker to see all docker linting commands for rake. rake docker:lint will run all linters. For individual rake linting commands please refer to rake -D docker for the list.

You can run specific linting for directories or files by using docker-compose run lint rubocop (file path or directory), etc.

docker-compose run lint bash sets you up to run from the container command line.

Docker CI - Test and Linting

Docker CI and Tests containers have a xvfd server automatically started for headless browser testing with selenium and Firefox.

Run docker-compose build ci to build the CI container. Run docker-compose run ci to start all rspec tests and linting. docker-compose run --entrypoint=/bin/bash will override the default CI action and place you inside the CI container in a bash session. This is what is run on Travis-CI.

Run docker-compose build tests to build the tests container. Run docker-compose run tests to start all RSpec tests.

Advice for Project Maintainers and Contributors

What do project maintainers do? What sort of work is involved? sstephenson wrote in the turbolinks repo:

Why this is not still fully merged?