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

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As software engineers, the things we build are unlike anything else out there. They’re in constant flux and can change drastically over long periods of time. Imagine if the people building an elevator system in a skyscraper found out a decade later that they were actually building a subway system! That’s what it sometimes feels like. The decisions that were made when you were making the elevator don’t always hold up in hindsight. The context has shifted 90 degrees.

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yeah

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but sometimes you have an elevator that’s in use as a subway system that 1m people use every day

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and you can’t just throw it away

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and you have to figure out what comes next

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and i think that’s very cool!

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and an exciting hard problem

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sometimes the team you’re on is only 5% the same as the team you started the elevator, if that!

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i just mean i like my job, and this problem space

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it’s wild that the elevator became a subway…… but it did! now we get to figure it out

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