Strip leading/trailing whitespace from publication abstracts #2416
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Pull Request Overview
This PR implements automatic stripping of leading and trailing whitespace from publication abstracts to maintain data consistency and improve display quality across the application.
Key changes:
- Added
auto_strip_attributes :abstractto the Publication model to automatically strip whitespace on save - Created a one-time rake migration task to clean existing publication abstracts in the database
- Added comprehensive test coverage for the new functionality
Reviewed Changes
Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| app/models/publication.rb | Added auto_strip_attributes :abstract directive and fixed indentation in the explicit_versioning block |
| test/unit/publication_test.rb | Added three new tests covering direct save, nil handling, and PubMed metadata extraction scenarios |
| lib/tasks/seek_upgrades.rake | Created strip_publication_abstracts migration task and registered it in the upgrade tasks list |
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Fixes #2404