Remove code. Something we do every single day of our programming life. What can we learn from such a seemingly mundane task? What details are often overlooked and silently cause us heaps of trouble? Let’s learn some ideas and techniques to avoid common pitfalls we run into when growing Rails apps.

João Britto:With about 10 years of experience in the software industry –8 with Ruby and Rails and 6 as a consultant at Plataformatec– I have worked with a diverse and rich ecosystem of Rails applications: from e-commerces to news portals and mobile APIs, from monoliths to microservices and enterprise integrations. During this long journey, I’ve had the opportunity to learn a lot about maintaining and evolving Rails applications.