Change gem source to https://rubygems.org, some minor gem upgrades.
Specify ruby 1.8.7 in Gemfile.
Return an error in event.name_for_ticket if the ticket can't be found in the current event.
This often happened when I updated the event for the new year, but hadn't updated the ticket_kinds yet. It would show a giant number as the name, which was confusing.
Remove test-unit files: they were not getting used, and removing them will help with upgrading Ruby/Rails.
Upgrade to Ruby 1.9.3.
Oh, how quaint. The db/schema.rb file was getting git-ignored. "It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control system."
Clean out a lot of unnecessary things from .gitignore that had been copied over from some project from the distant past.