I am dealing with a huge maintenance headache right now, upgrading an entire set of ancient Rails applications from 4.2 to 5.x. It’s a monumental task that invo

I am dealing with a huge maintenance headache right now, upgrading an entire set of ancient Rails applications from 4.2 to 5.x. It’s a monumental task that involves fixing all the the things, from libraries to controllers to models to rspec tests. We’ve literally waited 5 years to do this. Why? Because pushing out cool new features have greater “business value” than maintenance. It’s all customer-driven.