This method was added in Rails 7.0 and makes the code slihgtly more
readable.
The downside is that it generates two queries instead of one, so it
might generate some confusion when debugging SQL queries. Its impact on
performance is probably negligible.
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`.
Why:
Its a really huge script, and conflicts are hard to resolve on forks,
with indivudal scripts its easier to make custom changes.
How:
Following @mariacheca example using require_relative and a file under
the db/dev_seeds/ folder
