From c87c2f09600f313e0859a7e5c5f26ed48398c49b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Dalessio <mike@37signals.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:48:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Complete beamer gem adoption

- stop importing beamer during Dockerfile builds
- add a "bin/beamer" gemstub
- invoke `bin/beamer` explicitly
- drop the beamer initializer
---
 Dockerfile                    |  7 -------
 Dockerfile.dev                |  8 --------
 Procfile.beamer-testbed       |  2 +-
 bin/beamer                    | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 bin/beamer-testbed            |  4 ++--
 config/initializers/beamer.rb | 25 -------------------------
 6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 bin/beamer
 delete mode 100644 config/initializers/beamer.rb

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b40ca3a79..f1b6cdc67 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ RUN bundle exec bootsnap precompile app/ lib/
 # Precompiling assets for production without requiring secret RAILS_MASTER_KEY
 RUN SECRET_KEY_BASE_DUMMY=1 ./bin/rails assets:precompile
 
-
-# Fetch beamer library
-FROM registry.37signals.com/basecamp/beamer:vfs AS beamer
-
-
 # Final stage for app image
 FROM base
 
@@ -60,8 +55,6 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq && \
 # Copy built artifacts: gems, application
 COPY --from=build /usr/local/bundle /usr/local/bundle
 COPY --from=build /rails /rails
-COPY --from=beamer /home/beamer/bin/beamer.so /rails/bin/lib/beamer.so
-COPY --from=beamer /usr/local/bin/beamer /rails/bin/beamer
 
 # Run and own only the runtime files as a non-root user for security
 RUN useradd rails --create-home --shell /bin/bash && \
diff --git a/Dockerfile.dev b/Dockerfile.dev
index 46c6f9d33..75b284570 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.dev
+++ b/Dockerfile.dev
@@ -26,17 +26,9 @@ RUN --mount=type=secret,id=GITHUB_TOKEN --mount=type=cache,id=fizzy-devbundle-${
     cp -a /devbundle/. "$BUNDLE_PATH"/ && \
     bundle clean --force
 
-# Fetch beamer library
-FROM registry.37signals.com/basecamp/beamer:vfs AS beamer
-
 # Final stage
 FROM base
 
-# Copy beamer into /usr/local because /rails is mounted as a volume and will overwrite anything
-# there.
-COPY --from=beamer /home/beamer/bin/beamer.so /usr/local/lib/beamer/beamer.so
-COPY --from=beamer /usr/local/bin/beamer /usr/local/bin/beamer
-
 # Entrypoint prepares the database
 ENTRYPOINT ["/rails/bin/docker-entrypoint"]
 
diff --git a/Procfile.beamer-testbed b/Procfile.beamer-testbed
index e6cd59476..05fe908af 100644
--- a/Procfile.beamer-testbed
+++ b/Procfile.beamer-testbed
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 web: bin/thrust bin/rails server
-beamer: beamer --debug --directory ./storage/ run --primary ${BEAMER_PRIMARY:-$(hostname)}
+beamer: bin/beamer --debug --directory ./storage/ run --primary ${BEAMER_PRIMARY:-$(hostname)}
 migrations: bin/beamer-testbed run-migrations --debug --directory ./storage/
diff --git a/bin/beamer b/bin/beamer
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b0b4f14e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/beamer
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+#
+# This file was generated by Bundler.
+#
+# The application 'beamer' is installed as part of a gem, and
+# this file is here to facilitate running it.
+#
+
+ENV["BUNDLE_GEMFILE"] ||= File.expand_path("../Gemfile", __dir__)
+
+require "rubygems"
+require "bundler/setup"
+
+load Gem.bin_path("beamer-rails", "beamer")
diff --git a/bin/beamer-testbed b/bin/beamer-testbed
index f4030dbb9..baf667501 100755
--- a/bin/beamer-testbed
+++ b/bin/beamer-testbed
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ cmd_run_migrations() {
   echo "Waiting for beamer to be ready..."
 
   # Wait for beamer status to succeed
-  while ! beamer $BEAMER_OPTIONS status >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+  while ! bin/beamer $BEAMER_OPTIONS status >/dev/null 2>&1; do
     echo "Beamer not ready yet, waiting..."
     sleep 1
   done
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ cmd_run_migrations() {
   sleep 1
 
   # Check if this is the primary node
-  if beamer $BEAMER_OPTIONS is-primary; then
+  if bin/beamer $BEAMER_OPTIONS is-primary; then
     echo "This is the primary node, running migrations..."
     ./bin/rails db:prepare
     echo "Migrations complete!"
diff --git a/config/initializers/beamer.rb b/config/initializers/beamer.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b5cc182e..000000000
--- a/config/initializers/beamer.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# This is a temporary shim to load the Beamer VFS prior to opening the tenanted
-# databases that use it.
-#
-# It's here to get around the fact that the VFS needs to be registed before the
-# databases are opened, so we can't rely on the normal extension loading to do
-# it.
-#
-# We'll move this responsibility into a Beamer gem soon, at which point this
-# file will be removed.
-
-Rails.application.config.after_initialize do
-  paths = [
-    Rails.root.join("bin/lib/beamer.so"),
-    Pathname("/usr/local/lib/beamer/beamer.so")
-  ]
-
-  paths.each do |beamer_extension_path|
-    if beamer_extension_path.exist?
-      db = SQLite3::Database.new ":memory:"
-      db.enable_load_extension(true)
-      db.load_extension(beamer_extension_path)
-      break
-    end
-  end
-end