I spent some time working on upgrading Quantified Awesome from Rails 3 to Rails 4. I was so glad that I had invested the time into writing enough RSpec and Cucumber tests to cover all the code, since that flushed out a lot of the differences between versions: deprecated methods, strong parameters, and so on.

rspec-mode was really helpful while testing upgrade-related changes. I quickly got into the habit of using C-c , m (rspec-verify-matching) to run the spec file related to the current file. If I needed to test specific things, I headed over to the spec file and used C-c , s (rspec-verify-single). Because RSpec had also changed a little bit, I needed to change the way rspec-verify-single worked.

(defun sacha/rspec-verify-single ()
  "Runs the specified example at the point of the current buffer."
  (interactive)
  (rspec-run-single-file
   (concat
     (rspec-spec-file-for (buffer-file-name))
     ":"
     (save-restriction
               (widen)
               (number-to-string (line-number-at-pos))))
   (rspec-core-options)))

(sacha/package-install 'rspec-mode)
(use-package rspec-mode
  :config
  (progn
    (setq rspec-command-options "--fail-fast --color")
    (fset 'rspec-verify-single 'sacha/rspec-verify-single)))

C-c , c (rspec-verify-continue) was also a handy function, especially with an .rspec containing the --color --fail-fast options. rspec-verify-continue starts from the current test and runs other tests following it, so you don't have to re-run the tests that worked until you're ready for everything.

I should probably get back to setting up Guard so that the tests are automatically re-run whenever I save files, but this is a good start. Also, yay, I'm back to all the tests working!

Test coverage didn't mean I could avoid all the problems, though. I hadn't properly frozen the versions in my Gemfile or checked the asset pipeline. When I deployed to my webserver, I ran into problems with incompatible changes between Rails 4.0 and 4.1, and Bootstrap 2 and Bootstrap 3. Whoops! Now I'm trying to figure out how to get formtastic-bootstrap to play nicely with Bootstrap 3 and Rails 4 and the latest Formtastic… There are some git repositories that claim to do this correctly, but they don't seem to work.

Grr.

Fine, I'll switch to simple_form, since that seems to be sort of okay with Bootstrap 3. I ended up using this simple_form_bootstrap3 initializer along with

# You can wrap a collection of radio/check boxes in a pre-defined tag, defaulting to none.
config.collection_wrapper_tag = :div

# You can define the class to use on all collection wrappers. Defaulting to none.
config.collection_wrapper_class = 'collection'

and this in my style.css.sass:

.form-horizontal
  .control-group
    @extend .form-group
  .control-label
    @extend .col-sm-2
  .control-group > .form-control, .form-group > .form-control, .form-group > .collection
    @extend .col-sm-10
  .help-block
    @extend .col-sm-offset-2
  .control-label.boolean
    text-align: left
    font-weight: normal
    @extend .col-sm-offset-2
  label.radio
    font-weight: normal

which is totally a hack, but it sort-of-semi-works for now.

More changes to come, since I've got to get it sorted out for Rails 4.1 too! Mrph.