A pretty popular opinion in the Ruby on Rails community is that default_scopes should not be used for any reason. However, often it's not fully explained why default_scopes are harmful to applications. Default Scopes are harmful because they are unexpected and hard to unscope.
2020-01-02
(Last Updated: 2020-01-06)
When using Ruby on Rails' strong_params with require, there is a chance the key doesn't exist. When this happens, an ActionController::ParameterMissing exception is thrown.
2020-01-02
(Last Updated: 2020-05-20)
Ruby 2.7 deprecated the use of hashes in the last argument of a method call. Fix this warning by removing the curly braces or adding a hash splat (**) to a variable argument.
2019-12-30
(Last Updated: 2020-01-06)
When querying ActiveRecord for greater than and less than, most people turn to including raw SQL in their codebase... But raw SQL isn't required!