Our task today is to add unique slugs to our Company model on our Ruby on Rails app. The Company model has name and location properties, and we want to use those to create the slug. E.g. the company named Lugo Labs and based in London should have a slug, ...

Mutation is a special type of query used to change data in the database like Creating, Editing or Deleting Records from a table or Store. These are … (more…)

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