When I realized what had gone wrong, the light almost blinded me.

But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and then demands to know why they're getting funny errors. I find this sort of behaviour offensive to all the people who are basically dealing out free support. I'd rather spend my time helping people who actually give a damn.

Where there was once a consistent API to manipulate and hook into the lifecycle of a persistent object, plugins must now perform very careful checks whether an object supports more advanced traits like transactions, observers or dirty attribute tracking.

The basics of Isolate, a tool for replacing Bundler in gem management.