This blog post is taking a deeper look at phase 2 of upgrading a large Ruby on Rails up in smallish steps.  The next phase is basically updating the config and booting the application in both versions. This is hopefully a small enough piece that can be merged into the main branch relatively quickly or at… Continue reading Upgrading Ruby on Rails, Phase 2: Booting the App

This blog post is taking a deeper look at phase 1 of upgrading a large Ruby on Rails up in smallish steps. The focus with these phases is to be able to do a small enough piece and get it merged into the main branch as quickly as possible in order to prevent regression due… Continue reading Upgrading Ruby on Rails, Phase 1: The Second Gemfile

Thought I would share the general procedure I have come up with that I have learnt with upgrading Monolithic Ruby on Rails apps. The focus allows the code to still accept changes/features while the upgrade is happening which could take a few months to complete. These phased steps can be used to upgrade large rails… Continue reading Upgrading Ruby on Rails in small steps