A May Of WTFs

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Frequently WTFed WTFs This topic collects patterns in existing WTFs. If you’re seeing patterns I’m not, please note them in the comments! Sprockets/Webpacker division of responsibilities is confusing Rails is omakase until it isn’t – n…	3	1862	May 11, 2020
About the A May Of WTFs category We all lose time to “Rails WTFs.” Something goes weird in our Rails process, and we spend four hours frantically reading Stack Overflow before it finally occurs to us to restart Spring. Or we make one silly typo and it c…	2	1871	May 7, 2020
Rails UJS documentation	9	446	May 31, 2020
Why do generators let me make mistakes on column types?	6	147	May 31, 2020
Helping devs understand concerns faster	50	1937	May 31, 2020
Spring fails to notice changes and reload frequently enough that it is a constant hindrance	24	729	May 31, 2020
Webpacker presents a more difficult OOB experience for JS Sprinkles than Sprockets did	15	569	May 31, 2020
.xhr? returns nil on remote requests	5	144	May 30, 2020
May of WTFs Appreciation Post	2	139	May 30, 2020
Patterns for "data-only" Rails migrations	21	438	May 30, 2020
Turbolinks and Stimulus are developed behind a wall	14	1074	May 29, 2020
A way to skip default scopes?	13	365	May 29, 2020
Potpourri of head scratchers	9	219	May 29, 2020
Calling controller or request in the debug console generates an endless stream of characters	4	98	May 29, 2020
JavaScript Documentation Coordination	19	559	May 29, 2020
Nested has_one object should be built automatically when nessecary	7	158	May 28, 2020
Turbolinks broken by default with a secure CSP	4	341	May 28, 2020
Interactive "rails new"	81	3274	May 28, 2020
GitHub issues being closed as "stale" after a period of inactivity	1	73	May 28, 2020
Active Record connection pool sometimes requires manual massaging	1	44	May 28, 2020
Db:schema vs db:structure	4	201	May 27, 2020
Rails stats only includes code from some specific folders in app	5	140	May 27, 2020
ActionMailbox conductor only supports composing plain text emails	7	93	May 27, 2020
Routes with names that end in _path	4	120	May 27, 2020
No search in Rails Guides	23	914	May 27, 2020
Time.now vs Time.current vs DateTime.now	27	751	May 27, 2020
ActiveMultiTenant	13	672	May 27, 2020
What about ActiveModel::Serializer?	3	120	May 26, 2020
Comments in Gemfile, round 2	7	267	May 26, 2020
Get subdomain(s) in Rack middleware	4	124	May 26, 2020

Frequently WTFed WTFs

This topic collects patterns in existing WTFs. If you’re seeing patterns I’m not, please note them in the comments! Sprockets/Webpacker division of responsibilities is confusing Rails is omakase until it isn’t – n…

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1862

May 11, 2020

About the A May Of WTFs category

We all lose time to “Rails WTFs.” Something goes weird in our Rails process, and we spend four hours frantically reading Stack Overflow before it finally occurs to us to restart Spring. Or we make one silly typo and it c…