Knee-deep in ActiveRecord::Relation code yesterday, I was reminded of some interesting nuggets that I’ve seen used far too rarely. Here, I’ve gathered my top ten most underused relation methods from that list for your reading delight.

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I never thought to use a Photoshop Filter like Spatter like this until someone showed it to me. Sure you can use Dither on Gradient Fill layers, but what happens when you layer multiple gradients on each other, and you get really bad banding? Seriously, guys.

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