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Getting a count of the rows in all of your ActiveRecord models
Warning: Going through ActiveRecord is likely not something you want to do in production unless you have a replica database that your script or your model can point at. See the second part for MySQL and PostgreSQL examples in SQL. How do you enumerate your models? For apps created under Rails 5 app or later,…
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Referencing one trait from another trait in factory_bot
Sometimes you want to DRY up traits by referencing one trait from another trait in factory_bot. I tried searching on “inheriting traits” (that’s just for one factory inheriting traits from another and was in a factory_bot issue in GitHub). I accidentally stumbled upon the answer in a slightly unrelated StackOverflow question about calling a trait…
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RAW_POST_DATA in rspec rails for Rails 5.2 and beyond
The last time I was trying to specify RAW_POST_DATA in rspec was probably Rails 3 or 4, but I ran into a situation trying to test an edge case for error handling where I wanted that same functionality. I quickly found this issue [Unable to POST raw request body], but didn’t immediately figure out what…