Interesting Things

• According to Newlee, a the name of a polymorphic belongs_to can’t end in a digit. That is, you can’t say,

  belongs_to :johnny_5, polymorphic: true
  

  without some very strange errors from Rails.

• Chronic is a seriously awesome natural-language date/time parser for Ruby. If you’re on Ruby 1.9 and have been missing it, today’s a day to celebrate! Chronic is now fully Ruby 1.9 compatible.