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 Workday Strategic Sourcing

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

SOLID architecture

- Rails API backend for a React web app.
- 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.

32 posts published

19 comments written

6 tags followed

Augusts Bautra

Sep 27

DRY up RSpec subject defining

#rspec #tests #dry

2 min read

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Augusts Bautra

Sep 27

The alternative to shared examples

#rspec #shared #examples #clean

9 min read

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Sep 25

Module Builder pattern in Ruby

#ruby #builder #pattern

3 min read

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Sep 25

On testing

#rspec #testing #tests

2 min read

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Sep 13

Improving Rails boot time

#rails #rspec #ruby

1 min read

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Aug 24

Tickets are for solutions, not problems

1 min read

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Aug 22

How to test `send_data` in request specs

1 min read

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Apr 24

Rails Request specs with arbitrary JSON params

#rails #rspec #request

1 min read

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Feb 24

An alternative to model states - state models

#rails #architecture #design

3 min read

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Feb 21

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

Augusts Bautra

Oct 18 '22

How do you deal with test record leaks?

#rails #rspec #tests #leaks

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Sep 19 '22

Using the semi-secret `within` matcher in RSpec

#rspec #ruby #rails

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

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

Augusts Bautra

Jun 9 '22

Define a .root method for your gems

#ruby #gems #basics

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 14 '22

Resolving "rb_check_safe_obj will be removed in Ruby 3.0" warning

#ruby #rails #rbchecksafeobj

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

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

Augusts Bautra

Jul 9 '20

Simple testing of Rails cache with RSpec

#rails #rspec #caching

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jun 10 '20

Profile arbitrary code in prod console

#ruby #rails #profiling

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

Jan 6 '20

Identify and clean up .present? calls on collections

#rails #ruby #monkeypatching #performance

1 min read

Augusts Bautra

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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