handle contribution for now-unused swf

app/helpers/contribution_helper.rb

@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@ module ContributionHelper
   end
   
   def contributed_item(item, adverbial)
+    if item
       output do |html|
         html << 'the'
         html << link_to(item.name, item, :class => 'contributed-name')
         html << adverbial
         html << image_tag(item.thumbnail_url)
       end
+    else
+      "data for an item that has since been updated"
+    end
   end
   
   PET_TYPE_IMAGE_FORMAT = 'http://pets.neopets.com/cp/%s/1/3.png'

config/environments/remote_development.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Mirror of the development environment. Designed to allow the ability to plug
+# in the production database, while still behaving like development.
+require Rails.root.join('config', 'environments', 'development')