Having fun with legacy apps

1. Legacy Apps @mlomnicki The essence of dealing with legacy apps is to reduce the number of WTFs down to zero.
2. Legacy Apps Growing market.
3. There was an app... Almost 3 years under development 2 teams. 1st from UK, 2nd from India
4. tests there were some tests! (unit, controllers) over 100 out of 220 fail
5. git log fixes - 163 times fix - 144 times search - 52 times changes - 40 times final issues - 30 times
6. versions Rails 2.3.5 ruby 1.8 no bundler
7. WTFs (@club.secretary == current_member || @club.secretary == current_member)
8. WTFs <%= @payment.new_record? ? '' : '' %>
9. WTFs if some_condition else do_something
10. WTFs Member.first(:conditions => ["member_id LIKE #{params[:id]}"])
11. WTFs if @member.something == sth || @member.somethi ... elsif other_long_conditions ... else very_long_condition && looks_important ...
12. Logic models controllers views layouts initializers (!)
13. Everything is awful ruby code JS CSS plugins used
14. Arkency took control
15. 1. Understand the app It is hard From the beginning you have to dive into every detail Bugs made by your predecessor become your bugs
16. 2. Tests BBQ heavy no factories or fixtures
17. 3. Code PORO + real unit tests Good Rails code Nothing fancy yet (no DCI, no usecases...)
18. 4. Upgrade It is all about plugins Moved them to lib and simplify Do you need them all?
19. Where is the fun?!
20. Removing code is fun 1799 files changed, 37303 insertions(+), 78770 deletions(-)
21. SPA migration is mega fun Realize the rails-way is legacy! It does not matter how old Rails you have
22. To fix or to rewrite? None is correct! SPA is the answer Otherwise your app is still legacy...
23. Profits Users - SPA enhances their experience Devs - SPA is better architecture
24. Time 80% in frontend app 20% in Rails
25. Gameboxed Engine It is the best thing since Rails Put pressure on Andrzej to open-source it
26. Mobile app soon Mobile is so easy now Thank you SPA
27. Q&A