Scavenge some previous updates to be Rails 7 friendly

[epugh]

Description

Made changes in #861 but put too many things into one PR. Now pick the best.

Motivation and Context

Rails 7.1 cause soon we want to be on 7.2!

How Has This Been Tested?

Screenshots or GIFs (if appropriate):

Types of changes

• [] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [] Improvement (non-breaking change which improves existing functionality)
• [] New feature (non-breaking change which adds new functionality)
• [] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• [] My code follows the code style of this project.
• [] My change requires a change to the documentation.
• [] I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• [] I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• [] I have added tests to cover my changes.
• [] All new and existing tests passed.

[epugh]

need to figure out why our custom list and item support failed on this upgrade ;-(. Maybe look at "positioning" gem..