The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Episode 198: 198: Overcoming Legacy Code and Building Rails Engines
Show notes
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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