Welcome to another edition of This Week in #dev, a series of posts where we bring some of the most interesting Slack conversations to the public.
finding multiple records by id
Elisa found out that you can pass an array of record ids to Active
Record’s find method. It will return an array of model objects with
those ids.
Neil added that if any of those ids don’t exist, Active Record will raise an
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, just like it does with one single id.
VS Code: You might not need that extension
Matheus Richard talked about how Visual Studio Code sometimes adds new features that may make some extensions unnecessary. He shared a blog post that discusses some of those features.
Secure Tokens with Active Record
Summer ☀️ provided instructions on how to generate a random, unique key/token in
an Active Record model using the has_secure_token method.
# Schema: User(token:string, auth_token:string)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_secure_token
has_secure_token :auth_token, length: 36
end
user = User.new
user.save
user.token # => "pX27zsMN2ViQKta1bGfLmVJE"
user.auth_token # => "tU9bLuZseefXQ4yQxQo8wjtBvsAfPc78os6R"
user.regenerate_token # => true
user.regenerate_auth_token # => true
Easily Manage Multiple Heroku Accounts with CLI Extension
Fer shared a Heroku CLI extension that allows users to have multiple accounts set up and switch between them with a single command, making it easier to use multiple Heroku accounts in the terminal.
Thanks
This edition was brought to you by: Elisa Verna, Fer Perales, Matheus Richard, Neil Carvalho, and Summer ☀️. Thanks to all contributors! 🎉