Last Updated: 2024-11-23

With the attribute_normalizer gem, I was striping the newlines out of the descriptions on the uploaded Subject entities on OxbridgeNotes, ruining the nice, formatted descriptions created by notes authors. I fixed this aggressive stripping and deployed.

Then I had the luck of asking myself, "wait, have I looked for parallel issues elsewhere"? I ripgrepped the codebase for the same method call and, sure enough, I had done the same thing in the tutors area.

In doing this extra round of checks, I got twice as much bang out of my debugging time.

Lessons

• Always check if you've made a parallel mistake elsewhere.