Daniel Fone
Ruby/Rails Engineer
I’m a freelance Ruby/Rails engineer, who loves working with great people to make interesting things. If you’re creating something interesting, get in touch! You can probably hire me.
As my son once said, “Let’s go build all the things!”
Recent Posts
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Handling Token Generation Collisions In ActiveRecord
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rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotUniquewithretryto handle collisions when applicable. -
Generating Unique, Random Tokens
If you need a random, unique token, use
SecureRandom.uuid(orSecureRandom.urlsafe_base64for something shorter). -
Efficient Uniqueness Validations
Use
:if => :field_changed?on uniqueness validations to skip unnecessary checks on every save. -
Unicode and Regex in Ruby 1.8
Regex doesn't play nicely with unicode in Ruby 1.8, so watch your input data! Specifically, '\W' (non-word character) only matches ascii characters.
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Fixing Connection Errors After Upgrading Postgres
You may need to reinstall the pg gem after upgrading postgres.