don't call .each on NIL
oops deleting a binding.pry which slipped past me
reverting the Gemfile line-ending change(?)
Merge pull request #559 from YaleSTC/558_no_dot_each_on_nil_eqm

Code looks good. Auto-merging #558 / #559.
Merge branch 'development' into 569_fix_reservation_validations
made max-item functions make more sense