An Upgrade Story

A retrospective on a long Rails 3 upgrade during the June 2011 Central Oregon Web Professionals User Group. Presented by Tim Linquist and Mark Turner

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1. An upgrade story
2. Mark Turner Hacker @amerine - http://github.com/amerine Tim Linquist Software Craftsman @tim_linquist - http://github.com/timo3377 @
3. Know your Code Especially with poor test coverage
4. Pairing
5. Test Suite Get it green, then move forward.
6. Issue Dependency Solution Test Suite
7. Dependencies
8. Your choices have consequences
9. Your choices have consequences acts_as_eav_model merb monkey patches bundler convention over configuration best practices
10. Technical Debt
11. Monkey Patching
12. Ignoring Conventions, Best Practices, and everyone else that’s smarter than you.
13. Git & GitHub =
14. Deployment
15. Advice
16. Stats 3 Months ~1000 Commits from 5 people Started with 1400 Failing tests Many, many contributions/patches to open source
17. Thanks (Slow Clap)