The not so very Short Migration to Rails 3.0

About the talk

The Journey of updating a huge legacy Rails 2.3 website to Rails 3 with initial estimates of a few weeks, ending in a 1.5 year project. With learnings of upgrading huge code bases and continuing to add functionality.

About the speaker

Grant Petersen-Speelman is a software Developer at Unboxed Consulting for the last 3 years now, during which he has worked on many Ruby on Rails projects. After completing his degree in Computer Science over 10 years ago has worked on many web projects and used many different technologies like PHP, C, , Java, HTML, CSS, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and more. During his free time he currently works on his pet Ruby projects trying out new gems and technologies.

Agenda

18:15 Welcoming and Introduction - Dale Humby

18:25 The not so very Short Migration to Rails 3.0 - Grant Petersen-Speelman

19:25 Closing and Thanks - Dale Humby

19:30 Networking & Discussion