Services for existing applications

Know what your Rails upgrade will take before committing to it

Turn an overdue Ruby or Rails upgrade into a decision you can budget for. WideFix reviews your existing application, investigates the main blockers and delivers a staged plan around the workflows your business depends on.

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Palladium Rails upgrade: bringing an existing application forward

A focused first step when the upgrade is hard to estimate

For founders and engineering teams with a live Rails product. Agree the assessment scope, fee, access and delivery date before work begins.

An overdue upgrade

You know the stack needs attention, but incompatible gems, custom code or missing tests make the effort uncertain.

A deadline to plan around

An approaching support deadline or hosting restriction needs a delivery plan that accounts for dependencies and your release schedule.

A roadmap that keeps slipping

Your team needs an outside Rails specialist to investigate blockers and define a first milestone alongside ongoing feature work.

What you receive

A written decision document and walkthrough. Findings distinguish verified behavior, assumptions and questions that need further investigation.

Production stack and blocker inventory

Ruby, Rails, key gems and relevant hosting dependencies, their support status, compatible target options and the main upgrade constraints. Production details are verified where agreed access allows.

Critical workflow verification plan

A map of the business behavior to preserve, current test gaps and checks needed for payments, permissions, jobs and integrations relevant to your product.

A staged plan and first-step estimate

An ordered backlog with acceptance checks, release and recovery considerations, plus an estimate for the first implementation milestone. Wider estimates state assumptions and unresolved blockers.

How the assessment works

Agree a bounded investigation

Share your business priorities, known versions, deadlines and current concerns. Together we define the systems and questions included, access arrangements, budget and delivery date.

Inspect and test the uncertain parts

Review code, dependencies, CI and deployment configuration. Where included, use an isolated branch or staging environment to investigate a compatibility blocker. Record what was actually tested.

Choose the next delivery milestone

Walk through the findings, tradeoffs and priorities. Your team can use the plan, or WideFix can separately scope implementation and ongoing maintenance.

Clear boundaries before work starts

An assessment has its own outcome

The deliverable is the agreed investigation and plan. A completed upgrade, full security audit, exhaustive dependency review and production changes require their own explicit scope.

Access matched to the review

Usually we need repository and dependency files, test and CI instructions, deployment configuration and a technical contact. Agree any staging, logs or read-only production access separately; avoid sharing secrets in an enquiry.

No invented certainty

Price and timing depend on the application and investigation scope. A short compatibility experiment may be needed before a reliable implementation estimate is possible.

Documented client work

Evidence behind the offer

Palladium: a documented Rails upgrade

Explore an existing-application upgrade from our client work and the engineering context behind it.

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Dependency modernization in a live product

Our Paperclip to ActiveStorage account explains staged migration, preserving existing files and checking the cutover.

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Articles to help plan your Rails upgrade

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Planning a Rails upgrade

What a useful assessment should resolve before implementation starts.

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Is your working Rails app still supported?

Check Ruby, Rails and hosting support to understand upgrade risks and prioritize the next steps.

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