Mu Fan Teng - Reconstructing Taiwan’s Internet-Based Party Politics

In an era where most activities in life can be executed online, the majority of countries still lack the ability to interact politically via the internet, such as online voting, party membership registration, and petition signing.
In Taiwan, a political party named “New Power Party” has, since its establishment in 2015, relied on volunteers to develop a complete system enabling online party membership, donations, and voting. After several years of developing and operating in a dynamic and evolving manner, the system accumulated substantial technical debt. This led to issues with proper and complete system functionality and maintenance, impacting the party’s operations. Eventually, we decided to re-evaluate the specifications and rebuild the entire system using the latest versions of Ruby and Rails.
In this session, I will explore the process of revamping an outdated Rails application, lacking in testing and specification documentation, with the new Ruby 3 and Rails 7. This will include code refactoring, selecting the Runtime Stack, and integrating automated deployment processes using Ruby-based tools. I will also share practical experiences and reflections on integrating data from old and new versions and relaunching the system.

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Mu Fan congrats on sharing this comprehensive talk about the reinvention of the app. I find it interesting that ruby code tend to be structured in a slightly different way depending on the country or past experiences of a developer. Keep up the good talks!