These cases aren't covered by the `Rails/WhereRange` rubocop rule, but
IMHO using ranges makes them more consistent. Besides, they generate SQL
which is more consistent with what Rails usually generates. For example,
`Poll.where("starts_at <= :time and ends_at >= :time", time:
Time.current)` generates:
```
SELECT \"polls\".\"id\", (...) WHERE \"polls\".\"hidden_at\" IS NULL AND
(starts_at <= '2024-07-(...)' and ends_at >= '2024-07-(...)')
```
And `Poll.where(starts_at: ..Time.current, ends_at: Time.current..)`
generates:
```
SELECT \"polls\".\"id\", (...) WHERE \"polls\".\"hidden_at\" IS NULL AND
\"polls\".\"starts_at\" <= '2024-07-(...)' AND \"polls\".\"ends_at\" >=
'2024-07-(...)'"
```
Note that the `not_archived` scope in proposals slightly changes, since
we were using `>` and now we use the equivalent of `>=`. However, since
the `created_at` field is a time, this will only mean that a proposal
will be archived about one microsecond later.
For consistency, we're also changing the `archived` scope, so a proposal
is never archived and not archived at the same time (not even for a
microsecond).
This rule was added in rubocop-rails 2.25.0. Applying it allows us to
simplify the code a little bit. For example, now there's no need to
specify the `proposals` table in proposal scopes, which was actually
causing a bug in the `Legislation::Proposal` model, which was using the
`proposals` table instead of the `legislation_proposals` table (but,
since we don't use this scope, it didn't affect the application).
We're now running the linters in github actions, and code climate
doesn't use the same versions of the gems or npm packages that we're
using in the application. For example, only a few limited rubocop
versions are available, and sometimes code climate breaks because our
rubocop version isn't compatible with theirs. Now we're also using a
version of stylelint they don't support.
All in all, the linters check in code climate isn't helpful at all
anymmore.
Note: to avoid confusion, "answer" will mean a row in the poll_answers
table and "choice" will mean whatever is in the "answer" column of that
table (I'm applying the same convention in the code of the task).
In order make this task perform reasonably on installations with
millions of votes, we're using `update_all` to update all the answers
with the same choice at once. In order to do that, we first need to
check the existing choices and what are the possible option_ids for
those choices.
Note that, in order for this task to work, we need to remote the
duplicate answers first. Otherwise, we will run into a RecordNotUnique
exception when trying to add the same option_id to two duplicate
answers.
So we're making this task depend on the one that removes duplicate
answers. That means we no longer need to specify the task to remove
duplicate answers in the release tasks; it will automatically be
executed when running the task to add an option_id.
Until now, we've stored the text of the answer somebody replied to. The
idea was to handle the scenarios where the user voters for an option but
then that option is deleted and restored, or the texts of the options
are accidentally edited and so the option "Yes" is now "Now" and vice
versa.
However, since commit 3a6e99cb8, options can no longer be edited once
the poll starts, so there's no risk of the option changing once somebody
has voted.
This means we can now store the ID of the option that has been voted.
That'll also help us deal with a bug introduced int 673ec075e, since
answers in different locales are not counted as the same answer. Note we
aren't dealing with this bug right now.
We're still keeping (and storing) the answer as well. There are two
reasons for that.
First, we might add an "open answer" type of questions in the future and
use this column for it.
Second, we've still got logic depending on the answer, and we need to be
careful when changing it because there are existing installations where
the answer is present but the option_id is not.
Note that we're using `dependent: nullify`. The reasoning is that, since
we're storing both the option_id and the answer text, we can still use
the answer text when removing the option. In practice, this won't matter
much, though, since we've got a validation rule that makes it impossible
to destroy options once the poll has started.
Also note we're still allowing duplicate records when the option is nil.
We need to do that until we've removed every duplicate record in the
database.
It was confusing to have the action to create an answer in
`QuestionsController#answer` while the action to destroy it was
`AnswersController#destroy`.
The routes for poll questions were accidentally deleted in commit
5bb831e959 when deleting the `:show` action, and restored in commit
9871503c5e. However, the deleted code was:
```
resources :questions, only: [:show], controller: 'polls/questions' (...)
```
While the restored code was:
```
resources :questions, controller: 'polls/questions' (...)
```
Meaning we forgot to add the `only: []` option when restoring the
routes.
We also forgot to remove the `before_action` code when deleting the
`:show` action, so we're removing it now.
