This rule was added in Rubocop 0.89.0. However, there are some false
positives when we don't use interpolation but simply concatenate in
order to avoid long lines. Even if there weren't false positives, there
are places where we concatenate to emphasize the point that we're adding
a certain character to a text.
We might reconsider this rule in the future, since we generally prefer
interpolation over concatenation.
In Ruby 5.2, we get a warning when using the "RANDOM()" function:
DEPRECATION WARNING: Dangerous query method (method whose arguments are
used as raw SQL) called with non-attribute argument(s): "RANDOM()".
Non-attribute arguments will be disallowed in Rails 6.0. This method
should not be called with user-provided values, such as request
parameters or model attributes. Known-safe values can be passed by
wrapping them in Arel.sql().
This warning doesn't make much sense, though, since RANDOM() is a common
function which is not dangerous at all. However, since the warning is
annoying, we'll probably have to find a way to deal with it.
So I'm extracting all our RANDOM() usages into a method. This way we'll
only have to change one method to avoid this warning.
I've chosen `sample` because it's similar to Ruby's Array#sample, and
because `order_by_random` would be confusing if we consider we already
have a method called `sort_by_random`.
Since we were saving the same budget investments several times, once for
every language, we were creating more than 1000 changelog entries.
Assigning the language attributes when creating the investments
generates less entries, making it easier to work with them.
We were inconsistent on this one. I consider it particularly useful when
a method starts with a `return` statement.
In other cases, we probably shouldn't have a guard rule in the middle of
a method in any case, but that's a different refactoring.
We were very inconsistent regarding these rules.
Personally I prefer no empty lines around blocks, clases, etc... as
recommended by the Ruby style guide [1], and they're the default values
in rubocop, so those are the settings I'm applying.
The exception is the `private` access modifier, since we were leaving
empty lines around it most of the time. That's the default rubocop rule
as well. Personally I don't have a strong preference about this one.
[1] https://rubystyle.guide/#empty-lines-around-bodies
Having exceptions is better than having silent bugs.
There are a few methods I've kept the same way they were.
The `RelatedContentScore#score_with_opposite` method is a bit peculiar:
it creates scores for both itself and the opposite related content,
which means the opposite related content will try to create the same
scores as well.
We've already got a test to check `Budget::Ballot#add_investment` when
creating a line fails ("Edge case voting a non-elegible investment").
Finally, the method `User#send_oauth_confirmation_instructions` doesn't
update the record when the email address isn't already present, leading
to the test "Try to register with the email of an already existing user,
when an unconfirmed email was provided by oauth" fo fail if we raise an
exception for an invalid user. That's because updating a user's email
doesn't update the database automatically, but instead a confirmation
email is sent.
There are also a few false positives for classes which don't have bang
methods (like the GraphQL classes) or destroying attachments.
For these reasons, I'm adding the rule with a "Refactor" severity,
meaning it's a rule we can break if necessary.
Naming two variables the same way is confusing at the very least, and
can lead to hard to debug errors. That's why the Ruby interpreter issues
a warning when we do so.
We have to doble check all emails deliveries from the dashboard.
Using a setting to skip all dashboard email deliveries for now.
Note that a rake task to activated the `Setting["dashboard.emails"]` will need to be addded when we want to activate deliveries of these emails.
spec/lib/tasks/dev_seed_spec.rb:8
This test was failing and we could see messages like:
db/dev_seeds/polls.rb:147:
warning: toplevel constant Answer referenced by Poll::Answer
Resulting in the error:
rake db:dev_seed seeds the database without errors
Failure/Error: expect { run_rake_task }.not_to raise_error
expected no Exception, got #<ActiveModel::UnknownAttributeError:
unknown attribute 'question_id' for Answer
Apparently the lookup was not correclty being performed, due to
conflicting names.
"Naming conflicts of this kind are rare in practice, but if one
occurs, require_dependency provides a solution by ensuring that
the constant needed to trigger the heuristic is defined in the
conflicting place."
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.0/autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html
