How I Audit a Legacy Rails Codebase in the First Week
My Rails codebase audit process: stakeholder interviews before code, Gemfile and schema before any tools, and a single-page triage as the deliverable.

My Rails codebase audit process: stakeholder interviews before code, Gemfile and schema before any tools, and a single-page triage as the deliverable.

`default_scope` quietly breaks `Model.all`, corrupts scope chaining, bleeds into associations, and can leak data in multi-tenant apps. Here's why it's dangerous and what to use instead.

When querying ActiveRecord for greater than and less than, most people turn to including raw SQL in their codebase... But raw SQL isn't required!
