Consulting/contracting for a company, and their lead developer/ops guy quits without warning. This leaves me as the only one with the somewhat technical know how but without access to do anything to move any changes to production....

It also leaves you in a great $$ position. It's you! 😊

Haha I wish. I'm actually working with them to fit their budget, to an extent since it's a small company. They're my first official client outside of friends of friends or family so I'll see how this goes.

Run! Any idea why their dev quit? He/she knows something you don't.

Well looking through the code more, we're finding that the code he solely wrote to get this thing running is complete shit. I knew it was possible to write shitty code with Ruby and doing things the Rails way, but never thought I would find someone break every convention...