Talk: Working with Legacy Rails Apps - Technical Debt Hell and how to work your way out of it, Desi McAdam

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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.

This topic will be presented by Desi McAdam (click for more details on Desi and all our speakers).

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