During the month, contributed a targeted fix to the rails/rails repository, focusing on improving ActiveRecord’s in_order_of method. Addressed an issue where out-of-range integer values could cause misordering in queries by updating the method to ignore such values, thereby aligning its behavior with Ruby’s Enumerable expectations. Enhanced the robustness of the solution by refining type casting and serialization logic to process only valid integers, and supplemented these changes with new tests to verify correct handling and prevent regression. This work, utilizing Ruby and Ruby on Rails for back end development, strengthened query stability for applications relying on in_order_of functionality.