Melissa Kaulfuss MelissaKaulfuss

Today I had to add a parameter to a request we were sending to an external API.

My unit test passed ✅ The acceptance specs did not - I had 20 failures. ❌

The failures were super cryptic, something about not being able to merge Nil:NilClass into a hash or something weirdly unrelated. One of my colleagues suspected it was to do with the VCR gem we used to simulate HTTP requests/responses from APIs.

Turns out VCR uses query strings as the key for the cassette (I did not know this). Because I'd added a param to the query string, the existing string (in the cassettes) was broken.

The issue

Yesterday when attempting to initialize /.init a Docker Container (for the first time) I got a strange error that I just assumed was down to my set up. Hadn't yet spun this up on my new machine.

The failure occurred when hitting exec bundle exec rake db:create.

The error output:

Gem::Exception: can't find executable rake for gem rake. rake is not currently included in the bundle, 
perhaps you meant to add it to your Gemfile?

Conversation between Melissa Kaulfuss and George Sheppard.

mel [11:36 AM] 
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mel 
[11:37 AM] 
sup

	irb(main):001:0> class A
	irb(main):002:1> def self.cow
	irb(main):003:2> "hello I am a cow"
	irb(main):004:2> end
	irb(main):005:1> def moo
	irb(main):006:2> "Mooooo!"
	irb(main):007:2> end
	irb(main):008:1> end
	=> :moo
	irb(main):009:0> A.cow