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On behalf of the Rails Foundation, the official Ruby on Rails website published an announcement in mid-November. The newly formed NPO announced it would start with an investment of $1 million. The news must have shocked those who bury Ruby every year. It's worth considering whether it's justified that companies, including GitHub and Shopify, have allocated so much money to develop the framework.

Code refactoring is the process of refining the code itself, without changing what it does. The point is to make it easier for developers to use, understand, and work on the code.

Although it may not be as exciting as other parts of the development process, code refactoring is crucial for the long-term maintenance and expansion of software. Most software is too complex to handle for any significant duration, unless developers work to simplify it and make it easier to understand.

Regular refactoring is a top priority for our developers. It helps us help our clients, whose web and mobile applications need to be constantly up-to-date and secure.

There was exciting news from the Ruby on Rails camp this week with the announcement of The Rails Foundation, a new non-profit dedicated to improving the documentation, education, marketing, and events in our ecosystem to the benefit of all new and existing Rails developers.

The foundation was started by eight founding core members – Cookpad, Doximity, Fleetio, GitHub, Intercom, Procore, Shopify, and 37signals – who endowed it with $1 million in seed funding. This funding will benefit the foundation’s work to ensure a “prosperous ecosystem that continues to improve, and becomes even more attractive to newcomers going forward.”