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Sewer Adventure
Aug 25, 2004

haywire posted:

Because the website is giant and most of the time we need to make small changes that don't require having a copy of several GB site and db on our own boxes. I know it is an un-ideal situation, but I really can't think of a better solution at the moment.The site is some giant hack of a 2003 version of osCommerce, I'm pushing for a rewrite, but there's just so much functionality we'd have to replicate.


I currently work on a site that was a huge (multi-million dollar rev) osCommerce hack and we ported it all to Rails last year and it is beautiful and you can fairly easily duplicate all the functionality of the old site and routes lets you map all the old urls to the new ones and you can have a test suite and it will be the best thing ever you should do it.

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