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Summary

The text explores the top 10 errors commonly encountered in Ruby on Rails projects, offering insights into their causes and prevention strategies. It highlights errors such as ActionController::RoutingError, which often result from nonexistent URLs or incorrect links, and NoMethodError, which occurs when attempting to access properties of a nil object. The document also discusses security-related errors like ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken, which is triggered by missing or incorrect CSRF tokens, and offers solutions such as including CSRF tokens in requests or whitelisting certain API endpoints. Additionally, it addresses issues like Net::ReadTimeout, which involves adjusting HTTP client timeouts, and ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique, which may arise from race conditions in database transactions. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing these errors to improve user experience and application security, recommending tools like Rollbar for error tracking and resolution.