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Original Post: Introducing: Refactoring Rails
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Refactoring makes code easier to change. If you are like us, you may have returned to a project you started months ago, and scratched your head about how to add that new feature. Some of your code may have been written while you were still new to Ruby and Rails. Or perhaps you have inherited someone else’s code to maintain and don’t know where to begin. Refactoring gives you a set of heuristics for transforming an existing codebase into something more inviting.