From 'Legacy' To 'Edge': Continuous Upgrades For Rails Apps
Hiroshi Shibata • June 08, 2013 • Singapore

We have a lot of Rails 2.x applications with Ruby 1.8 in production, and engineers feel incredible pain because they can't use a lot of gems and Ruby 1.9 features.

In this talk, I'll share my thoughts on the following:
- Why do we need to upgrade Ruby and Rails?
- What are the strategies available to upgrade Ruby and Rails?
- How do we reduce technical debt?
- How do we upgrade Rails while adding new features?
- How do we do continuous delivery while simuluteously migrating the database?

I'll also talk about how web companies in Japan work. If you are interested in continuous maintenance and continuous delivery, this is a talk for you.

Red Dot Ruby Conference 2013