Augusts Bautra

Senior Rails developer from Latvia. Avid gamer. Longevity enthusiast. #keto-dude

Riga, Latvia Joined on Feb 22, 2017 https://twitter.com/AugustsBautra

Education

College, Unfinished

Work

Software Engineer at UPB AS

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Augusts Bautra

Apr 24 '24

Stop abusing before_action

#rails #controller

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 2 '24

Must-have gems for mature Rails

#ruby #rails

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 27 '23

The alternative to shared examples

#rspec #shared #examples #clean

9 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 10 '20

Profile arbitrary code in prod console

#ruby #rails #profiling

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 21

TIL efficient subqueries with EXISTS

2 min read

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Augusts Bautra

Mar 13

Simple way to deal with race conditions in Rails

#rails #ruby #race

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 5

Querying Rails Active Storage Data

#ruby #rails #active #storage

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 21

Ad-hoc fields in AR queries

#ruby #rails

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 6

Thoughs on Codingame 2024 Winter challenge

#challenge

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 3

False positives of Lint/Void in assignments

#ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 28 '24

TIL .order_values

#rails #activerecord

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 12 '24

Stop the rot

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 12 '24

Buffer all the things

#rails #performance

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 8 '24

The 3 kinds of Enum in Rails

#rails #ruby #enum

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 1 '24

TIL: joining with LIKE

#sql #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 24 '24

The tragedy of darth Devloper

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 17 '24

TIL `bundle outdated`

#rails #ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 4 '24

Use `gem "oj"` for free JSON performance

#rails #ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 3 '24

Adopt .strict_loading gradually

#rails #ruby #performance

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 26 '24

Bug in `use_transactional_fixtures`

#rails #rspec

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 26 '24

See untested code in GitLab MRs

#rails #gitlab #rspec

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 22 '24

Index tables from production console

#rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 22 '24

Save CI time by skipping navbar rendering

#rails #rspec #ci

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 21 '24

File uploads in request specs

#rspec #rails #spec

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jul 26 '24

TIL use `normalizes :field, apply_to_nil: true`

#rails #normalizes

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 26 '24

TIL custom order with .in_order_of

#rails #ruby #activerecord

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 13 '24

TIL: an_array_starting_with matcher

#rspec #ruby #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 5 '24

Work with :through associations made easy

#rails #activerecord #associations

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

May 31 '24

The most painful reason NULLs are evil

#rails #null

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

May 21 '24

How I stopped RSpec from spiking to 2x runtime

#postmortem #rspec

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

May 16 '24

Disable specific callback in spec

#rspec #rails #ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

May 9 '24

A small refactor story

#ruby #refactor

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Apr 30 '24

Use stateless services

#ruby #rails #services

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 28 '24

How to split out a specific case from a polymorphic association

#rails #polymorphic

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 27 '24

Auth, Business rules and HTTP

#rails #http

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 21 '24

Simple HTTP status code-symbol map in Rails

#ruby #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 13 '24

Private class methods in Ruby (the right way)

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Mar 11 '24

Idiomatic shorthand loops in Ruby

#ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 21 '24

How I use Rails' `concerning` macro

#rails #ruby #concerns

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 19 '24

How to split user stories

#ruby #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 16 '24

The three types of methods in Ruby

#ruby #rails

3 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 16 '24

The three ways to query ranges in Rails

#ruby #rails #query

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 23 '24

POROs, in-memory Models and AR models, a continuum

#ruby #rails #models

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 27 '23

DRY up RSpec subject defining

#rspec #tests #dry

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 25 '23

Module Builder pattern in Ruby

#ruby #builder #pattern

3 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 25 '23

On testing

#rspec #testing #tests

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 13 '23

Improving Rails boot time

#rails #rspec #ruby

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 24 '23

Tickets are for solutions, not problems

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Aug 22 '23

How to test `send_data` in request specs

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Apr 24 '23

Rails Request specs with arbitrary JSON params

#rails #rspec #request

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 24 '23

An alternative to model states - state models

#rails #architecture #design

3 min read

Augusts Bautra

Feb 21 '23

The case against shared examples

#rspec #rails #ruby #clean

5 min read

Augusts Bautra

Nov 10 '22

Set up keyboard shortcuts that type out stuff on Mac

#mac #automation

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 18 '22

How do you deal with test record leaks?

#rails #rspec #tests #leaks

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 19 '22

Using the semi-secret `within` matcher in RSpec

#rspec #ruby #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 9 '22

Editing is not a state

#modelling #design #ddd

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jul 29 '22

Namespaced errors for Ruby

#ruby #errors #exceptions

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jul 22 '22

Always `prepend: true` for `before_destroy` callbacks

#todayilearned #rails #callbacks #trick

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 30 '22

Memoization in Ruby

#ruby #memoisation #memoization

2 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 20 '22

The advent of tooling for Big Rails

#rails #tooling #components #packwerk

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 9 '22

Define a .root method for your gems

#ruby #gems #basics

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 14 '22

Resolving "rb_check_safe_obj will be removed in Ruby 3.0" warning

#ruby #rails #rbchecksafeobj

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Oct 8 '21

The raise of minimum-churn style in Ruby

#ruby #rubocop #style #churn

3 min read

Augusts Bautra

Apr 26 '21

Simple trick to make FactoryBot work with STI

#rails #factorybot #rspec

2 min read