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Digestum and digesta

Ruby on Rails is the application framework that's used for Feed Digest's control panel and user interface. I've used it in many other projects, and it's the best solution for developing Web applications these days. Sadly, however, "Digest" is a reserved word in Ruby, so I've had to work around it. Therefore, in the code, a digest is called a digestum, and the plural is digesta. Some suggestions were made as to how I could work around this, but I either didn't understand them or find them palatable. I guess these faux Latin names give the code a bit of flavor!