rails-sass is deprecated

I've been seeing this for a while, and have finally got round to finding a solution.

In the project `Gemfile`, remove the reference to `sass-rails` and replace with `sassc`.

Sigh. It took more than two minutes to find the fix, so logging it here

RSpec failing after a new Rails Composer project

RSpec issues

Add
require 'rails_helper.rb'
into the spec files to allow the tests to run as expected.

spec/features/visitors/sign_up_spec.rb

The minimum password length is set to be 6 characters, but the 'expected fail' password was set to 'please', causing the test to fail.

Changed password to 'short' and test passes.

spec/features/users/sign_in_spec.rb

The tests were looking for an authentication_key of 'email'. Changed to 'Email' to match the results from Devise.

Rails woes on Windows 10

The Rails community isn't strong on support for Windows based machines.

The github repository RubyOnWindowsWoes contains the source and issues found.

This note is to remind me how I eventually solve the problems!

Ruby, Windows and Timezones

With the current builds of Ruby on Rails, there are a couple of problems with a default installation.

The first is that Windows environments seem to need the timezone data gem including.

The second is to do with the initial layout file.

Timezone data

If you have a Rails folder already, you might just be able to get away with the following:

Details about the timezone gem are in github. Add the following line to your Gemfile:

gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]

then run 

bundle update

as usual when you change your Gemfile.

To build a new Rails project

Follow Fletcher Nichols' instructions, (basically running this gist, then adding a new environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE with the value C:\RailsInstaller\cacert.pem.

application.html.erb

The line:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>
is currently failing on Windows environments. Replace the line with:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'default', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>

Adding the coffee-script-source gem to your the Gemfile seems fix the issue:
..
gem 'coffee-script-source', '1.8.0', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
seems to fix the issue.


Edit: added the coffee-script-source notes.
Edit2: Added the SSL_CERT_FILE notes