Episode 198: 198: Overcoming Legacy Code and Building Rails Engines

The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Aug 17, 2015•1 hr 4 min

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Episode description

Two primary topics this week:

Overcoming legacy code. Kyle describes the lessons that he's learned being the primary maintainer of a legacy code base. (Lots of good advice here).
Building Rails Engines. Sean describes his experience building a Rails engine to interface with FancyHands.

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