[LRUG] Best practices for reskinning / redesigning the look and UI of a Rails app?

[Jesse Waites]

Hello everyone,

I've recently started a new job and one of my first orders of business is
to reskin the app. It basically looks like hot garbage right now and my
boss wants me to redesign it with a proper framework, etc. I am also
looking forward to this because I have a pretty good design eye and it will
be cool to have complete ownership of the look and feel of a production web
app.

I have started with making some general UI mockups in Balsamiq and have
approval to implement this design from upstairs.

I suppose I will simply create a new branch and start adding the framework,
and start redesigning this maybe a controller at a time, hitting each view
in each controller? That seems like a reasonable approach to me.

I know how to technically do this but I'm curious about the best overall
strategy to reskin (Add a new front end / UI) a rails app. If someone has
done this before and wouldn't mind writing about their process / best
practices for something like this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!


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Jesse Waites
JesseWaites.com
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