Bloated Ruby files

[dnesteryuk]

I understand that you generate this client, but if you check memory which is needed to load your gem with

bundle exec derailed bundle:mem

See for more details of the derailed command. You will get this:

  xero-ruby: 30.25 MiB
    xero-ruby/api/accounting_api: 6.7891 MiB
    xero-ruby/api/payroll_uk_api: 2.3203 MiB
    xero-ruby/api/payroll_nz_api: 1.2891 MiB
    xero-ruby/api_client: 0.7734 MiB

Just one accounting_api.rb needs almost 7 Mb!

Our project uses lots of other gem, but xero-ruby is the most expensive. For example, Rails:

rails/all: 17.9023 MiB

Rails has way more features and it is lighter.

Can we do something with this, guys? Thanks. 🙂

[SerKnight]

Hi @dnesteryuk - i've thought about decoupling the sub API sets as extensions that are compiled into the build at install

https://guides.rubygems.org/gems-with-extensions/
Example

creds = {
  client_id: ENV['CLIENT_ID'],
  client_secret: ENV['CLIENT_SECRET'],
  redirect_uri: ENV['REDIRECT_URI'],
  scopes: ENV['SCOPES'],
  api_sets: ['accounting', 'files']
}
xero_client ||= XeroRuby::ApiClient.new(credentials: creds)

xero_client.accounting_api => accounting_api_instance
xero_client.projecets_api => undefined method etc.

However I've not done this before and I think would be quite a decent refactor. Do you have any other ideas how to slim it down?

Haha had to compare to rails, couldn't have picked Nokogiri

[ngan]

Hoping to fix this here: #380