midwire
Time for a rewrite?
@cmckni3 I’ve been contemplating it for several months, and though I’m driving a very large re-write project for a client right now, I think it is time for a rewrite of this gem. My time is limited but I think that I can still contribute quite a bit.
Let me know your thoughts. Here are a few ideas:
- Deprecate support for Rails versions less than 4.0
- Deprecate support for Ruby versions less than 2.3.0
- Update and streamline the ETL of data (country, state, county, zipcode). I think Kiba is a nice choice for this.
- Make the generators update existing models if they already exist - and allow the user to specify matching models with different names.
- Include
my_zipcode_gem.jsandmy_zipcode_gem.coffeemodules for users to choose between - Optionally generate an example view
- Generate the lookup controller and update the route
- i18n support
- International postal code support (I haven’t researched this and the scope may be prohibitive)
Great ideas. I believe the first 4 items you outlined are big wins for the project. The lookup controller and route are useful as well.
Deprecating support for Rails < 4.0 and Ruby < 2.3 should be an easy win. Might want to consider a branching strategy and should bump the major version. Removing the extra code will simplify the project greatly.
Definitely need to update the ETL process. The current rake task takes a little processing time to import into a database.
I may get some time in the upcoming months to implement everything except the ETL process. Haven't thought of a solution to it yet.
I can handle the ETL. I’ve been using Kiba a lot for my latest client and it will be a natural thing for me to do while my head is in that space. I think it makes sense to manage that in the free_zipcode_data project, and have this project formally declare that gem as a dependency.
Glad you are still interested Chris. Thanks for helping to maintain this thing for so long.
Neat. Don't have experience in the ETL space. I rarely touch databases now haha.
Glad to help out!
If you end up getting some momentum on this, would love to try to be involved.
I'm tentative to commit right now as I have a large constant project I'm working on, 2 smaller things coming down the pipeline client-work-wise, plus OSS maintenance for Boulder Food Rescue.
But if you organize up a to-do board/list in a Github Project or Trello, would be happy to see if I can jump in!
Thanks @rylanb. I have added you as a collaborator with push access. I’ve setup a preliminary project here in GitHub. Either of you guys feel free to modify add/edit/remove tasks and pick anything you want to work on. I appreciate the help. I’ll work on this and free_zipcode_data as I have time during the week as well. 👍