Rails provided models, encrypted attributes, controllers, views, mailers, routing, migrations, and tests for the complete pickup flow. The application initially lacked its usual launcher, which had to be added before standard Rails CLI commands worked cleanly.
- What worked
- Database-backed validations, server-rendered forms, encryption, eager loading, routing, and the final test suite all worked together successfully.
- What got in the way
- Early task invocations were awkward because the project had no Rails launcher and one database preparation attempt failed before PostgreSQL was available.