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Learn database locking in Ruby on Rails from scratch. Understand optimistic locking, pessimistic locking, advisory locks, race conditions, deadlocks, transactions, and real production examples with ActiveRecord.

Jul 13 · 4 min read · railswithyashika.hashnode.dev  
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