Working with Legacy Rails Apps - Technical Debt Hell and how to work your way out of it 3.21 http://spkr8.com/t/1263

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Many of us have found ourselves having to deal with a difficult Rails codebase. Maybe you wrote it before you got good at Rails. Maybe you are rescuing a disaster caused by someone else. Many times our gut reaction is to scrap the legacy codebase and rewrite, but what about times when that isn't a feasible approach? What to do? I will talk about some techniques for working with legacy code, estimating work on legacy apps and other such fun topics.

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