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Rails Scopes On Associations

I'm working on a legacy Rails application at the moment (legacy meaning it's over 10 years old - but it's recently had a revival in development activity.) I regularly come across, what appears to be, strange ways of doing things. At first I put

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I'm currently working on a 10+ year old code base and often come across some code that I am initially baffled by. def using_custom_theme? !custom_theme_id.nil? end My first thoughts were - why ? This is the sort of logic kungfu that really hurts my

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