How I Audit a Legacy Rails Codebase in the First Week

After doing this enough times, I&rsquo;ve learned the first week isn&rsquo;t about reading the code. It&rsquo;s about reading the signals.&#xA;The client already has opinions about what&rsquo;s wrong. They&rsquo;re usually partially right and almost always wrong about why. Your job in week one is to separate what looks bad from what&rsquo;s actually dangerous.&#xA;TL;DR: Start with people, not…