Your Teacher
Andrea Fomera
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I'm a Senior Software Developer living outside Denver, Colorado
About This Episode
Deploying to production often requires running tasks to backfill new columns and other data. The maintenance_tasks gem from Shopify does a great job of allowing you to define tasks with arguments and run them in production.