Ruby on Rails

You may want to watch this talk, from last year's Railsconf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7z-vGNNGw Now this isn't moving quite as far as you want to go, but it still might be instructional.

Walter

On Jan 30, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Russ S wrote:

> I'm working on a Rails 1 application. We'd like to upgrade it to Rails 3 or 4, but Rails 1 is so old that we think it would take a total rewrite to upgrade. There are management and budget issues with a total rewrite. We wouldn't be able to deliver anything until the entire rewritten application was finished.
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> So, we are searching for creative solutions to the upgrade problem. One idea is to start rewriting the application in Rails 4 and run it alongside the Rails 1 application. As features are added to the Rails 4 version, the same feature in the Rails 1 version could be taken offline. Users would see a mix of the two versions. Some pages would be served by Rails 1 and others by Rails 4.
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> This would require both the Rails 1 and Rails 4 versions to use the same database.
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> So my question is, will this work? What problems with this approach should we be anticipating? We know it isn't a perfect solution, but we're hoping it's good enough to drive the project forward.
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