Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Is there anything we can do to make legacy Ruby more maintainable?

That question led me to this talk. In it, I introduces a new gem that we designed to help wrangle legacy refactors. It’s called Suture, and along with providing some interesting functionality to make refactoring less mysterious and scary, it also prescribes a clear, careful, and repeatable workflow for increasing our confidence when changing legacy code.

More here: blog.testdouble.com/talks/2016-09-16-surgical-refactors-with-suture