Seed Data

I inserted demo seed data directly into a Rails app, and all percentages showed as 0% on the screen. Server logs were clean, the data was clearly in the DB, yet the numbers would not appear. Situation This was a Rails app with a voting feature. There is a screen showing vote counts per choice, calculating percentages against total votes and displaying them with progress bars and numbers. I needed to show a demo, so I fetched real-time data from an external API and inserted it as seed data. The approach was simple: ...

After uploading a test build of the app and running it myself, 4 things broke simultaneously. Google login failure, AI itinerary generation returning wrong results, app crash on tapping the notification button, and the popular destinations section completely empty. Here is the process of finding and fixing each cause. 1. Google SSO Fails While Apple Login Succeeds Symptoms Apple Sign-In works normally but Google Sign-In returns a 500 error. The client only shows a login failure toast. ...