Bulletproof your specs - Time logic

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Bulletproof your specs - Time logic

You finished working on a ticket, all specs are passing locally, and you submit a PR. But today isn’t that day, the PR fails to build and it seems not only your PR but all builds are failing on that repository. You pause the music, mutter to yourself a curse and dig in the logs to discover that a set of specs contain a hard-coded date value, which is yesterday. How to prevent this? That’s what we will discover in this post.

To Call or not to Callback

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To Call or not to Callback

If you have worked on a Rails project, it’s guaranteed to come across callbacks. We will see in this post a refactoring example and how to use them safely. Let’s get started :smiley:

Delete_all will surprise you

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Delete_all will surprise you

I was working recently on a Rails project and I faced an interesting behavior of delete_all from ActiveRecord. In this post, I’ll go through the steps that I have done to understand what happened and how I did manage to get around it.

Intro to background Jobs

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Background jobs are used a lot in production. At first, the concept may seem complex or unclear why we are using it. So without a lengthy introduction let’s jump into action with a simple example.

Common Hash issue

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Did you get RuntimeError: can't add a new key into hash during iteration error?

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