Intro

I started a new job back in June and my first project was taking over and making updates to a big legacy Rails app. Taking the project over was pretty much a worst-case scenario because the project had no tests and nobody who had built the website was still contactable.

Luckily I've been working with Rails for 6 years, and most of the decisions on this project ended up being the Rails standard, so I was able to setup the project, add some tests, and figure out deployments to staging/production.

Along the way I kept notes of my process, and wrote this blog post which gives the 6 steps I take when starting a project like this.

https://nextlinklabs.com/insights/six-tips-for-inheriting-a-legacy-rails-app

I'd love to hear any feedback on the blog post! Also, have any of you had a situation like this where you had to take over an existing project after the original developers have disappeared?