Lightning Talk: Resuscitating an Abandoned Rails Application
Matt Rayner • June 30, 2024 • Brighton, UK

So, you’ve joined a new company to ‘support’ and ‘upgrade’ a legacy application. One that’s not been updated until 2018, and began life in 2014. Ruby 2 and Rails 5, up to Ruby 3.3 and Rails 7. How hard can it be?

I’m Matt Rayner, a talented and dedicated full stack, polyglot engineer. I’m looking for a challenging environment to test and improve my skills. I love learning new things and am an early adopter of bleeding edge technologies. Outside of work I’m involved in volunteering and a number of side projects. Everything from training students in multimedia and design skills, through to Give Cat - a bookmarklet that replaces all the images on a website with pictures of cats (what more could you want, right?).

Brighton Ruby 2024