release

This turns out to be a major upgrade for ggKbase because we are adopting the Rails new native trifecta, Solid Queue, Solid Cache, and Solid Cable, to replace a number of third-party gems and systems, such as Sidekiq, Redis, and Memchached that are used for background jobs and caching. In line with Rails philosophy of…

After running on Elasticsearch 6.8 for the past so many years, we have finally upgraded it to Elasticsearch 8.7. There were some very minor changes in the API, but for the most part, it did not affect the code base too much. We had to re-index all the feature annotations, and it took 1.5 day…

In keeping with the latest minor upgrade of Rails, we have upgrade Rails from 7.0 to 7.1. For the detailed changes in the Rails system, you can find it in the release notes here: https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/7_1_release_notes.html. There is no significant changes to the way ggKbase behaves as a result of this upgrade. The major upgrade coming…

The front end code upgrade was a massive project that involved examining/studying, cleaning out, and modifying the entire front end code base as the following actions were taken: Motivations for these changes:

Rails 7.0 has has transitioned the frontend development away from Webpack, a more tightly coupled packaging environment, to jsbundling, a more loosely connected packaging environment. On top of that, it introduces one of the native ActiveRecord methods that I have been longing for: bulk insert to the database. This would allow me to move away…