Episode 198

198: Overcoming Legacy Code and Building Rails Engines

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August 16th, 2015

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About this Episode

Two primary topics this week:

  1. 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).

  2. Building Rails Engines. Sean describes his experience building a Rails engine to interface with FancyHands.

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