Release as a Ruby gem?

[zorab47]

Would it be possible to release this as a gem to embed the functionality and jobs into existing apps? An initial review leads me to believe that use of Rails is minimal for the periodic jobs, which does make use of ActiveJob.

I'll check into the feasibility of it if ya'll are open to the idea. 😄

[jmkoni]

Absolutely open to it! I’m guessing it might need a fork, but it sounds like a good idea.

[zorab47]

A quick rundown of my thoughts on a gem is below. I do want to keep the functionality centralized here (in this repo) for ease of development and maintainability. Plus it is your awesome code. 🚀

1. Move the job and models into lib/slack_pairs where gems put their code
2. Update the Rails app to make use of lib/slack_pairs
3. Move many of the static strings into I18n translations that can be customized per deploy
4. Add a slack_pairs.gemspec file that packages lib/ as a gem. It could then be released and integrated into other apps

There's potential to make this a Rails Engine, but that'll be extra effort outside the scope of my objective.

Thoughts or concerns?

[jmkoni]

Sounds good to me. Might be a good start and maybe I can pull out mod tools into a second gem. I’ve been meaning to make this more flexible, just haven’t had the time yet.

[zorab47]

I've started a branch here: zorab47#1

[jmkoni]

Thank you!