Truly Awful Rails Code (Send it to me!)

There's tons of material out there telling us how to properly write code (or attempting to anyway), but in an effort to be creatively different, I decided that my Railsconf talk this year will be all about bad Rails code. Entitled "The Worst Rails Code You've Ever Seen...", I'm basing it on both code and practices that I've both done myself, stumbled across as a neutral observer or rescued during the last few years.

After working through a draft, I'm feeling a little short on examples, so I'm reaching out to you for some help. Please email me your heinous Rails coding examples, stuff that you're truly embarrassed about. I'm looking for stuff that has obvious "better ways" or not, the latter being good topics for discussions of how Rails occasionally leads developers down the wrong path.

If you want to be a little bit more anonymous than email permits, you can also post a comment to this entry linking to snippets on Pastie. Not to worry, none of the example code in the talk will be direct copy-paste of actual client code or stuff that you submit. I plan on changing variable names and anonymizing stuff to the best of my ability and for my legal protection.

If I get enough material, I plan to make the content of the talk and submissions into a regular series of posts on this blog. Thanks in advance for your help!