Bug-Driven Development

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A real bug report about an API mismatch drives a concrete fix: reproduce with RSpec and FactoryGirl, discover a missing assignment that leaks role and enabled between accounts because Rails loads associations by Ids and the app uses UUIDs. The team replaces Ruby-side searching with a clearer design: a UserAccountDecorator plus a SearchUserAccounts loader, adds a focused loader spec, and ships the refactor to eliminate the leak and prevent regressions.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:14Pain Free Rails 66 Deployments
3. 0:50PROCORE
4. 1:44When setting a user as inactive, the change is not reflected correctly in the API
5. 2:22The bug is confirmed, but only for accounts in the EU region
6. 3:04I can only recreate on staging environment with an enterprise account
7. 6:34The Missing Character
8. 13:47Loading more from the database is faster.
9. 20:49Where do I put the regression test?
10. 23:23A bug is an opportunity for improvement
11. 25:26Better design: Abstractions, not just indirection

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