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Getting a Handle on Legacy Code

Getting a Handle on Legacy Code
Randy Coulman • April 21, 2015 • Atlanta, GA

By, Randy Coulman
We all run into legacy code. Sometimes, we even write it ourselves. Working with legacy code can be a daunting challenge, but there are ways to tackle it without taking on the risk of a full rewrite.

There is a deep satisfaction that comes from conquering a nasty piece of legacy code. The ability to achieve this goal depends on both testing and refactoring.

We'll learn how baby-step refactoring techniques lead to a better understanding of the code and a high-quality design while always keeping the code running.

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RailsConf 2015

Opening Keynote

David Heinemeier Hansson

Leveraging Microsoft Azure from Ruby

Heroku: A Year in Review

Aaron Patterson

What's happening in your Rails app? Introduction to Introspection features of Ruby

Building RailsPerf, a toolkit to detect performance regressions

RSpec: It's Not Actually Magic

Ruby on Rails on Minitest

Interviewing like a Unicorn: How Great Teams Hire

Chakri Uddaraju, Alaina Percival, Aline Lerner, Allan Grant, and Obie Fernandez

Ruby Heroes Awards

Gregg Pollack and Oliver Lacan

Panel: Rails Core

Aaron Patterson, Santiago Pastorino, Godfrey Chan, Guillermo Iguaran, Andrew White, Evan Phoenix, and Jeremy Kemper

What Comes After MVC

Passwords are not Enough

Bringing UX to Your Code

Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture

Teaching GitHub for Poets

Humane Development

What We Can Learn about Diversity from the Liberal Arts

Don't Be A Hero: Sustainable Open Source

Docker isn’t just for deployment

DevOps for The Lazy

Microservices, a Bittersweet Symphony

Sebastian Sogamoso

Resilient by Design

Nothing is Something

Strategies for being the Junior on the Team

How Does Bundler Work, Anyway?

Understanding Rails Test Types in RSpec

Level Up with OSS: Develop Your Rails Dev Skills Through Open Source Contributions

Courteney Ervin

Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code

So You Want to Start Refactoring?

Civic Hacking on Rails

William Jeffries

Workshop: Do Users Love Your API? Developer-focused API Design

Pete Holiday, Kate Harlan, and Nate Ranson

SVG Charts and Graphics with Ruby

Breaking Down the Barrier: Demystifying Contributing to Rails

Eileen M. Uchitelle

Implementing a Visual CSS Testing Framework

Dynamically Sassy

Jeremy Fairbank

Curly — Rethinking the View Layer

Daniel Schierbeck

Burn Rubber Does Not Mean Warp Speed

Crossing the Bridge: Connecting Rails and Your Front-End Framework

Ruby Debugger Internals

Trailblazer: A new Architecture for Rails

Nick Sutterer and J Austin Hughey

Delivering Autonomous Rails Apps behind Corporate Firewalls

Using JavaScript from the Future in Your Rails App Today

Your Front End Framework is Overkill - Server Side Javascript w/ Rails

React.js on Rails

Rails and EmberCLI: an integration love story

Jonathan Jackson

Internet of Things: Connecting Rails with the Real World

Beyond Hogwarts: A Half-Blood's Perspective on Inclusive Magical Education

Jaime Lyn Schatz

Crossing the Canyon of Cognizance: A Shared Adventure

Pamela O. Vickers

Making Data Dance

Data Warehouses and Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis

Raimonds Simanovskis

What I've Learned in 7 Years of Podcasting about Ruby

RailConf 2015 - Crossing the Canyon of Cognizance: A Shared Adventure

Pamela O. Vickers

Get Started with Component-based Rails Applications!

Stephan Hagemann

Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller

Processes and Threads - Resque vs. Sidekiq

5 Secrets We Learned While Building a Bank in 16 Months

Stan Ng and John Phamvan

Playing Games In The Clouds

High performance APIs in Ruby using ActiveRecord and Goliath

Dan Kozlowski and Colin Kelley

Why Your New API Product Will Fail

You, Too, Can Be A Webserver

AMS, API, Rails and a developer, a Love Story

Scaling Rails for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Christian Joudrey

Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller

So Long, Hoboken: Migrating a Huge Production Codebase from Sinatra to Rails

Richard Schneeman

Slightly Less Painful Time Zones

Better callbacks in Rails 5

Claudio Baccigalupo

Adventures in Federating Authorization and Authentication with OAuth

Bending the Curve: How Rust Helped Us Write Better Ruby

Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale

How to Program with Accessibility in Mind

Metasecurity: Beyond Patching Vulnerabilities

Rapid Data Modeling Using ActiveRecord and the JSON Data Type

How to Talk to Humans: a Different Approach to Soft Skills

Now Hear This! Putting Real-Time Voice, Video and Text into Rails

ActiveJob: A Service Oriented Architecture

The World of Rails Security

The power of cache in a slow world

(Re)Building a large scale payments system on Rails

What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby?

Prying Open The Black Box

Now Hear This! Putting Real-Time Voice, Video and Text into Rails

Designing a Great Ruby API - How We're Simplifying Rails 5

Bringing UX to Your Code

Coding: Art or Craft?

Nothing is Something

Keynote - Day 1 Closing

Lightning Talks

Obie Fernandez, Gustavo Robles, Lance Gleason, Claudio Baccigalupo, Christopher Rigor, Chris Kibble, Reid Morrison, Joshua Quick, Jason Charnes, Amy Wibowo, André Arko, Shane Defazio, Jeremy Evans, Isaac Sloan, Joe Dean, Nitie Sharma, Mike Virata-Stone, Gabriel Halley, Aaron Harpole, Ryan Davis, Elle Meredith, Gonzalo Maldonado, Peter Degen, Jeff Casimir, Ivan Tse, Hsing-Hui Hsu, and Adam Cuppy

A New Kind of Analytics: Actionable Performance Analysis

Getting a Handle on Legacy Code

A New Kind of Analytics: Actionable Performance Analysis

Deploy and Manage Ruby on Rails Apps on AWS

Alex Wood, Trevor Rowe, and Loren Segal

Voila, Indexes! A Look at Some Simple Preventative Magick

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What is this PGP thing, and how can I use it?

Test Driving your Rails Infrastructure with Chef

Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Ambitious Capybara

Eduardo Gutierrez

Closing Keynote: Ease at Work