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<p>Well if you really want to pander to <code>strong_migrations</code> extremist nonsense...</p>
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<p>I'm surprised by your attitude here <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=147741" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/tomhughes">@tomhughes</a>, it's not very helpful.</p>
<p>Without doing this, if we just ran the migration to drop the column, then anyone in the middle of doing anything with a User object (i.e. already read from the database and then writing to the database) can receive an error. Creating a user, updating their preferences, etc. So you run the migration, and people see errors. I want to avoid that.</p>
<p>I don't consider this to be "pandering to ... extremist nonsense" and it's a) a  pretty trivial solution and b) not something that I'm burdening you with.</p>
<p>If I haven't yet convinced you that <code>strong_migrations</code> is useful, then fine, you don't have to agree. But I find it useful, and I like doing migrations properly, so I'll continue to use it.</p>

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