To match discourse_theme CLI behavior, we should skip hidden files/directories (e.g. `.git`), and two regular directories: `node_modules/` and `src/`.
Without these excludes, it's very easy for a theme to hit the file count limit. e.g. when trying this with discourse-kanban-board, I got:
> The number of files (20366) in the theme has exceeded the maximum allowed number of files (1024)
Why this change?
Currently, we do not have an easy way to test themes and theme components
using Rails system tests. While we support QUnit acceptance tests for
themes and theme components, QUnit acceptance tests stubs out the server
and setting up the fixtures for server responses is difficult and can lead to a
frustrating experience. System tests on the other hand allow authors to
set up the test fixtures using our fabricator system which is much
easier to use.
What does this change do?
In order for us to allow authors to run system tests with their themes
installed, we are adding a `upload_theme` helper that is made available
when writing system tests. The `upload_theme` helper requires a single
`directory` parameter where `directory` is the directory of the theme
locally and returns a `Theme` record.
David Taylor
Alan Guo Xiang Tan