palkan/isolator: Detect non-atomic interactions within DB transactions
With this gem your transaction blocks raise an error when they have side effects that cannot be rolled back.
By default it checks whether you're connecting with HTTP, queuing a Sidekiq job or sending an e-mail within a transaction. You can add custom checks, too.
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