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Silicon Valley or Soviet Union

This made my day.

In Support of Strong Encryption

Yes!

IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications. We oppose efforts by governments to restrict the use of strong encryption and/or to mandate exceptional access mechanisms such as “backdoors” or “key escrow schemes” in order to facilitate government access to encrypted data. Governments have legitimate law enforcement and national security interests. IEEE believes that mandating the intentional creation of backdoors or escrow schemes – no matter how well intentioned – does not serve those interests well and will lead to the creation of vulnerabilities that would result in unforeseen effects as well as some predictable negative consequences.
— IEEE Position Statement

AR create_with

I knew there was AR’s 

find_or_create_by

  method but I didn’t know it had a very useful companion 

create_with

 .

@something ||= SomeModel.create_with(some: "stuff").find_or_create_by(foo: "bar")

This will either find a record 

SomeModel.where(foo: "bar")

  or create it with

SomeModel.create(foo: "bar", some: "stuff")

 . Very useful.