Fix: board columns actions are stale when moving a column moves

[tomycostantino]

Problem

When creating or destroying a column or moving it either right or left, the views/boards/show/menu/_column_form.html.erb partial of already existing columns is stale, so the action buttons inside the form are either disabled or actionable when should not be the case.

How to reproduce

1. Create a new board and navigate to it.
2. Create a new column.
3. Create another column.
4. Expand the first created column by clicking on it.
5. Open the action menu by clicking on the ellipsis icon.
6. The action button to move it right is disabled although it can be moved right.
7. Delete the first created column.
8. Expand the second created column.
9. Open the action menu by clicking on it.
10. The action button to move the column left is still enabled, even though there is nothing to the left side.

Demonstration video

screenrecording-2025-12-09_10-31-58.mp4

Solution

Refresh board columns on move right/left and create/destroy actions. I extracted the update logic into the views/columns/_refresh_surroundings.turbo_stream.erb which is rendered by other streams.

[jorgemanrubia]

Great one @tomycostantino 🙏. Some minor suggestions and a request for a change that can fix other related bug we have.

[jorgemanrubia]

Minor: I would rename to surrounding_columns or adjacent_columns, so that it is clear what this is returning.

[jorgemanrubia]

We have a bug where deleting a column won't show its cards automatically in the Maybe column. We could get rid of the destroy turbo stream action and replace with just a redirect_back_or_to @board, so that a full page morph will take care of the problem. If you are happy to tackle that here, we can fix that bug as part of this PR 🙏. We can remove the destroy stream action and replace with the redirect.

[jorgemanrubia]

Related to my feedback above: I'd rather see surrounding_column or adjacent_column than just surrounding.

[jorgemanrubia]

Do we need this explicit invalidation? In theory we consider adjacent columns for caching here:

fizzy/app/views/boards/show/_columns.html.erb

Line 29 in ca10e4b

<%= render partial: "boards/show/column", collection: board.columns.sorted, cached: ->(column){ [ column, column.leftmost?, column.rightmost? ] } %>

[tomycostantino]

Hey @jorgemanrubia thank you for reviewing! Just made the changes you've requested, and fixed the bug referenced in the issue. Here's how it looks:

screenrecording-2025-12-11_10-49-52.mp4

[jorgemanrubia]

Fantastic @tomycostantino thanks