I recently had to do some data model changes on a Rails app which I've had running for about 6 years, some notes here: http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/06/09/

I recently had to do some data model changes on a Rails app which I've had running for about 6 years, some notes here: http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/06/09/reorganizing-a-data-model.html http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/06/09/reorganizing-a-data-... Church-related IT is an interesting challenge - not a lot of money to be spent, and what money there is usually gets directed towards tracking contributions. I was the IT guy for http://www.alexandriapres.org/ http://www.alexandriapres.org/ for a few years (mostly running backups and such) and we certainly had a grab bag of solutions to the problems that church.io is solving nicely.