00:45 - Introducing the Wood brothers and their work

• Upgrade Rails
• Hint.io
• Ben’s Twitter
• Joshua’s Twitter

3:05 - Upgrading Rails without breaking it6:25 - Working with clients with technical debt12:20 - Frequently seen projects and clients14:45 - Upgrading clients from older versions of Rails22:50 - Why do clients push off upgrading?28:10 - How do you know when it’s time to upgrade?34:35 - Finding the right clients

• Website
• Ruby Weekly

37:50 - Avoiding technical debt

• Rails Xss gem
• Bundler

40:30 - Upgrading Rails yourself

• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
• [email protected]

Picks: Suture Gem (Ben) Debride Gem (Ben) JRuby Truffle Project by Oracle (Josh)
ThinkPads (Josh) Honeybadger IO (Josh) “A Rubyist’s Guide to Big-O Notation” blog post (Josh) Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracey (Brian) Codefights (Brian) Basics of Mechanical Engineering by Paul D. Ronney (Jason) The Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan (Jason)Special Guests: Ben Wood and Joshua Wood.

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