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I am aware of a legacy system powering a local business which runs on Rails 1 on a version of debian from 2012 and stores users passwords in plaintext, downcase

I am aware of a legacy system powering a local business which runs on Rails 1 on a version of debian from 2012 and stores users passwords in plaintext, downcased. I have tried to explain so many times that this system needs to be replaced urgently not for security reasons but because no one actually knows how to use rails 1 anymore.

dwoozle 7y ago
I have a Rails 1 product making $10K a year but I don’t have even the ability to log into the box anymore so if even the tiniest thing falls over that revenue is permanently gone for me.
- mjfisher 7y ago
  I'm curious about the economics of this - is it big enough to not be worth redeveloping when you consider over the income over say, 3-5 years?
  - dwoozle 7y ago
    I’m too busy with my kids and my job to deal with it.