Case Study: Barry Coffing
What started as an emergency rescue turned into a full Rails upgrade and long-term stabilization project.
The Problem
Barry’s Rails 4.2 app went offline after his developers disappeared. The root cause was an expired Mongo gem on Heroku, leaving the entire system down. Every day of downtime meant lost business and mounting costs.
Our Solution
- Diagnosed and fixed the Mongo gem issue, restoring uptime
- Migrated hosting from Heroku to our managed servers
- Reduced infrastructure and DevOps costs by around 50%
- Later performed a full Rails 4.2 → 7.0 upgrade with test coverage and CI
Results
The app was back online within days, running reliably on a modern stack. Since then, it’s had zero downtime and a cleaner, faster codebase. Barry now operates on predictable costs with no dependency issues.
“RailsBoost fixed what my previous developers couldn’t. They brought my app back online, upgraded it, and saved me money every month.”
— Barry Coffing, MusicSupervisor Founder
Get your app back on track
Whether you’re stuck on an old Rails version or facing downtime — we can help.