Transitioning a Large Rails Codebase into Packages: Seeking Tips and Advice from Experienced Developers

System Design
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<@U71102MDOF5> that’s also a problem with the monolith app… we do have a lot of tests but yeah that’s an issue

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We’re in the messy middle and this is a way of seeing that

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because everything depends on everything

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I generally don’t value extracting out of the monolith except for special cases so with larger teams there’s a lot of value in knowing what your garden looks like and keeping it tidy and the first phases in that chart do a lot to make that serviceable

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yeah, but we don’t have an option of going back to 2008 and fixing it at the outset lol

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if we did, we would!

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This talk does a great job of explaining what we’re trying to do https://rubymod.slack.com/archives/C02TLU33RNW/p1698421942933069

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right, it’s not

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It’s in flight

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headed towards modularity

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