Augusts Bautra

Senior Rails developer from Latvia. Avid gamer. Longevity enthusiast. #keto-dude

Riga, Latvia Joined on Feb 22, 2017 https://twitter.com/AugustsBautra

Education

College, Unfinished

Work

Software Engineer at UPB AS

beforehand

WIP: fragment cache warming for Rails 4.2+

Ruby • 1 star

chess_sense

A Rails app for maintaining your chess game database and gleaning insights with powerful statistical analysis.

Ruby

nimbler-path

Ruby File and Path method monkeypatches in Nim

Ruby

Ruby on Rails backend, RSpec, Capybara,
Redis, Sidekiq, NGINX, PostgreSQL,
Mina, Let's Encrypt, Monit

DDD

- Suite of 15k tests down from 30min to 19min.

From DNS record management and ending with service class names. Handy with performant tests and data architecture, would love to learn machine learning basics.

45 posts published

29 comments written

6 tags followed

Augusts Bautra

Apr 30

Use stateless services

#ruby #rails #services

2 min read

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Augusts Bautra

Apr 24

Stop abusing before_action

#rails #controller

1 min read

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Mar 28

How to split out a specific case from a polymorphic association

#rails #polymorphic

1 min read

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Mar 27

Auth, Business rules and HTTP

#rails #http

1 min read

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Mar 21

Simple HTTP status code-symbol map in Rails

#ruby #rails

1 min read

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Mar 13

Private class methods in Ruby (the right way)

1 min read

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Mar 11

Idiomatic shorthand loops in Ruby

#ruby

1 min read

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Feb 21

How I use Rails' `concerning` macro

#rails #ruby #concerns

1 min read

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Feb 19

How to split user stories

#ruby #rails

1 min read

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Feb 16

The three types of methods in Ruby

#ruby #rails

3 min read

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Feb 16

The three ways to query ranges in Rails

#ruby #rails #query

2 min read

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Feb 2

Must-have gems for mature Rails

#ruby #rails

1 min read

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Jan 23

POROs, in-memory Models and AR models, a continuum

#ruby #rails #models

2 min read

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Sep 27 '23

DRY up RSpec subject defining

#rspec #tests #dry

2 min read

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Sep 27 '23

The alternative to shared examples

#rspec #shared #examples #clean

9 min read

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Sep 25 '23

Module Builder pattern in Ruby

#ruby #builder #pattern

3 min read

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Sep 25 '23

On testing

#rspec #testing #tests

2 min read

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Sep 13 '23

Improving Rails boot time

#rails #rspec #ruby

1 min read

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Aug 24 '23

Tickets are for solutions, not problems

1 min read

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Aug 22 '23

How to test `send_data` in request specs

1 min read

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Apr 24 '23

Rails Request specs with arbitrary JSON params

#rails #rspec #request

1 min read

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Feb 24 '23

An alternative to model states - state models

#rails #architecture #design

3 min read

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Feb 21 '23

The case against shared examples

#rspec #shared #examples #clean

5 min read

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Nov 10 '22

Set up keyboard shortcuts that type out stuff on Mac

#mac #automation

1 min read

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Oct 18 '22

How do you deal with test record leaks?

#rails #rspec #tests #leaks

1 min read

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Sep 19 '22

Using the semi-secret `within` matcher in RSpec

#rspec #ruby #rails

1 min read

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Sep 9 '22

Editing is not a state

#modelling #design #ddd

1 min read

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Jul 29 '22

Namespaced errors for Ruby

#ruby #errors #exceptions

2 min read

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Jul 22 '22

Always `prepend: true` for `before_destroy` callbacks

#todayilearned #rails #callbacks #trick

1 min read

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Jun 30 '22

Memoization in Ruby

#ruby #memoisation #memoization

2 min read

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Jun 20 '22

The advent of tooling for Big Rails

#rails #tooling #components #packwerk

1 min read

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Jun 9 '22

Define a .root method for your gems

#ruby #gems #basics

1 min read

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Jan 14 '22

Resolving "rb_check_safe_obj will be removed in Ruby 3.0" warning

#ruby #rails #rbchecksafeobj

1 min read

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Oct 8 '21

The raise of minimum-churn style in Ruby

#ruby #rubocop #style #churn

3 min read

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Apr 26 '21

Simple trick to make FactoryBot work with STI

#rails #factorybot #rspec

2 min read

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Jan 30 '21

Alternatives to classic association fails

#rails #design #architecture #associations

3 min read

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Jul 9 '20

Simple testing of Rails cache with RSpec

#rails #rspec #caching

1 min read

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Jun 10 '20

Profile arbitrary code in prod console

#ruby #rails #profiling

1 min read

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Jan 6 '20

Identify and clean up .present? calls on collections

#rails #ruby #monkeypatching #performance

1 min read

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Jul 19 '19

Cache large drop-downs in Rails

#rails #cache #performance

2 min read

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Dec 21 '18

Minimising spec fragility

#testing #rspec

4 min read

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Oct 28 '18

Less awful module names

#discuss #ruby #rails

2 min read

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Sep 13 '18

A developer's instincts

#discuss #career

2 min read

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Aug 26 '18

Five years with Rails, a re-evaluation

#discuss #rails

3 min read

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Aug 25 '18

A multi-layer approach to test runs

#discuss #rails #rspec #testing

5 min read

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