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I'm pleased to have been able to contribute a recipe to Mike Clark's new book, Advanced Rails Recipes. The concept presented in my recipe, "Fail Early", is that you can use initializers to prevent your application from starting up under certain conditions.
Rails applications typically run under persistent ...