excid3

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I'm a Rails developer from St. Louis, MO. http://excid3.com | [email protected]

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Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks @aantix :D

Comment · 4 years ago

We use these both for https://jumpstartrails.com and it works great. You have to build your own authentication and native navigation, but for launching your app on mobile and the web, it's hard to beat.

Comment · 4 years ago

Yeah, we're going to replace Administrate sometime soon with our own admin. Most of the admin gems don't do a great job surprisingly.

Comment · 4 years ago

Just need to finish adding some more features to madmin.

Comment · 4 years ago

Yeah, Avo is a great alternative to the free admin we ship with (Administrate). And Jumpstart Pro customers get 20% off their first year of Avo. Thanks for sharing that discount Adrian!

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks Josh! I appreciate you!

Comment · 4 years ago

Creator of Jumpstart Pro here!

There have been a couple huge successes with it. One of them is processing millions in revenue a month. A lot of others are doing well and chugging along. Can't share the exact ones without permission, but I've been blown away it.

At the end of the day, it's nice to help people focus on their unique business features and not payments, teams, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago

Thanks for the support! Glad you've been enjoying Hatchbox. We're wrapping up v2 and can't wait to share it. Upgrading to Caddy for the web server has been wonderful.

Comment · 6 years ago

That would be so much fun. I originally started GoRails because I missed Railscasts so much. <3 I learned everything from Railscasts when I started with Rails.

Comment · 6 years ago

I tweeted about my first $1k/mo GitHub sponsor recently. https://twitter.com/excid3/status/1250428994303885313

A lot of the sponsors that do well are ones that offer things that the sponsor wants. Trading a couple hours a month consulting for $1k/mo in sponsorship helps make it worth doing to the donors. They want to support you, but they also probably could use your help.

Effectively you're productizing consulting and that flips it from a donation to a purchase. They get a tangible thing for their money this way. I think that helps a lot for making sponsorships more successful.

Comment · 6 years ago

I've been working on something like this for Ruby on Rails in case anyone is interested. It has multitenancy, billing separate for each tenant, automatic query filtering for the current tenant, etc. https://jumpstartrails.com

Comment · 7 years ago

The countermeasures to session fixation are covered in the official Rails guides: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-fixatio...

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks for the recommendation of GoRails! I started screencasting a few years back because I missed Railscasts and learned just about everything from Ryan Bates. Wish he was still around in the community.

If anyone ever has suggestions on Ruby / Rails topics to cover, let me know!