quickbooks-ruby suddenly fails creating customers/invoices with a bare `[placeholder]` error
Intuit changed their responses to be gzip-compressed without telling anyone, and the gem's Faraday connection did not always have the gzip middleware registered, so the raw compressed response was parsed as XML and blew up with the cryptic [placeholder] error. The fix was in the gem: always rebuild the Faraday conne…
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