Rails 7

[christoshrousis]

On the back of Heroku pricing tier changes now making the app inaccessible for free, I've decided to undertake a ground up re-write.

The primary outcomes are:

• Get the application running! ✅
  • The application currently does not run! due to lost package references (unix/docker).
• Drag the application into the future. ✅
  • Rails 7 introduces a lot of new ideas, it's been a while since I've reviewed the codebase, but there is presumably modern Rails fixes that might address some patches that exist in the codebase
• Nuke a lot of legacy NodeJS bundler related cruft attributed to Rails past. ✅
• Nuke Heroku integrations & accomodations. ✅
  • It appears that the majority of infrastructure scripts are written with Heroku in mind (appropriate at the time!) as evidenced by Procfile and other little hints throughout files
  • Difficult to decouple and differentiate what is acceptable best practice, versus legacy cruft from years gone by. ✅

Stretch Goal:

• Figure out a way to "one click" host the application again for casual, non-developer users. (this was one of the important attributes of this project in the first place) One click appears too difficult.
• Leverage https://hotwired.dev ✅ Leveraged some features, not all, could be better.
• Update the UI, maybe even sneak in some tailwind. Tailwind to be reviewing in seperate PR.

Might be a good idea to replace Heroku with "Render", but will fall into the same trap of potentially coupling implementation with platform. Render does not have an appropriate free tier.

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