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⚠️ Your booleans might be skipping validations…

Did you know that `toggle!` calls `update_attribute` under the hood, which skips ActiveRecord validations?

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Want to assign default values to locals in your Rails partials?

With Rails 7.1+, you can do it right in the `locals:` pragma!

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If you’re just swapping characters in a string, use `String#tr`, not `String#gsub`. 💚

Why? No regex engine, faster execution, cleaner intent.

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If I encounter one more `if ... then ... else ... end` block, I’ll go blind. 👀

Use the ternary operator instead! 🙏

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Rails 8 introduced `rate_limit` for controllers.

You can combine it with a `handle_rate_limit` method + a `BusyController` to centralize how you respond to throttled requests.

Keeps things clean and makes it super easy to extend later.

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"Rails is dead," they said! 😂 #rubyonrails