Modifying a class method's state

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Hi guys. I'm experiencing some strange behaviour in my Rails app. I have a constant, and two class methods:

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Hi Nick, This is because Ruby constants are not constants. They can change. Ruby warns you when you reinitialize a constant, but not otherwise. That is, Constant << “anything”

won’t produce a warning.

You should use something like, conditions_string = self.sql_for_non_null_coordinates.dup …

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Thanks for the tip, Kazim! That answers my question perfectly.

Cheers, Nick