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I recently stumbled upon a Rails pitfall that led to unwanted records cluttering pur database, and while trying to fix it I stumbled upon reject_if. The Problem My journey began with a User model...

Story time I was experiencing an issue with a ruby gem that handles file uploads in administrate. The delete button for it wasn’t working, because it wasn’t using Turbo correctly. So, I went ahead...

Story time Recently, we had an interesting situation: someone entered “Nigeria 🇳” as a zip code. Yes, with an emoji. Lesson This got us talking about data validation. If we allow emojis or other u...

When contributing to open source, submitting a pull request (PR) is often more effective than just opening an issue. While raising issues is important, a PR demonstrates your idea in action and mak...

There is a point in time where you just stop needing a column in the database. The most logical approach is to delete it, but it turns out this isn’t the smartest thing to do. Story time One of my...

Making a migration means changing the database, which is always a risky thing. Having a backup of our database is one thing, but it is better if we don’t resort to it. We should always test rollin...