Capabilities
Rails applications built, upgraded, and rescued — including the mature ones carrying ten years of business logic that nobody wants to touch.
Overview
A Rails application that has been running for a decade contains an enormous amount of business knowledge — rules, edge cases, and decisions that exist nowhere else in writing. The instinct to rewrite it is common and usually wrong: rewrites lose the edge cases, and the edge cases are frequently the reason the business works the way it does.
Most of what we do with older Rails applications is make them safe to change again. That means a test suite you can trust, dependencies brought current, and the upgrade path walked one version at a time. New builds get the same discipline from the beginning, which is why they do not become the other kind of application.
Capabilities
How We Work
Dependencies, Ruby and Rails versions, suite health, and what the real constraints are.
Make the test suite trustworthy first — everything after this depends on it.
One version at a time, or new work shipped in small reviewable increments.
Runbook, environment setup, and documentation for whoever maintains it next.
What You Get
In your repository and your accounts from week one.
A trustworthy test suite established before any version jump.
Scoped and priced before any build commitment.
Common Questions
With the test suite, almost always. Upgrading an application you cannot verify is guesswork, so establishing coverage over the critical paths comes first — it is what makes the rest predictable.
Rarely. A ten-year-old Rails app encodes business rules that exist nowhere else, and rewrites tend to lose exactly those. We will give you both estimates honestly, but the upgrade is usually both cheaper and less risky.
Yes, and it is a common starting point. The first deliverable is usually a written account of what the application does and where the risks are.
Tell us what you have and what it needs to do. We respond within one business day with a scope and a price.