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excid3

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About excid3

I'm a Rails developer from St. Louis, MO. http://excid3.com | chris@excid3.com

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    Thanks @aantix :D

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    Comment #33047127

    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 w…

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    Comment #33047118

    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.

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    Comment #31830383

    Just need to finish adding some more features to madmin.

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    Comment #31829334

    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 Ad…

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    Comment #29818596

    Thanks Josh! I appreciate you!

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    Comment #29815836

    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 a…

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    Comment #28470704

    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.

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    Comment #25060874

    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.

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    Comment #23221757

    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 th…

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    Comment #23055968

    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 cu…

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    Comment #20924656

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

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    Comment #19521986

    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 …

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    Comment #18564507

    You guys are the best! :D

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    I'm using Passenger for serving up apps, which supports Python, Node, and Ruby. Got some basic Node support right now, but have plans to add Python soon. I haven't used Python deep…

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    Yes, of course it's still worth learning. Whether you learn Rails, Django, or anything else, the concepts will apply pretty well for any web framework. I've been making screencasts…

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    Comment #17938099

    Appreciate that! :D

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    Comment #17937900

    I've been working on a solution for deploying Rails called Hatchbox. ( https://hatchbox.io ) Basically wanted to offer something as easy to deploy as Heroku, but on your own server…

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    Comment #16485341

    Creator of Hatchbox.io here! I was surprised to see this on here, which is awesome. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help!

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    Comment #16108172

    Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate the support! I definitely am considering offering courses that either package up a series or a topic. That seems to be a good way of solving…

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    Comment #16108162

    Primarily, I use it for just hosting paid content in a protected way. They do have awesome lead tracking, analytics, email captures and things but your bandwidth can cost a lot if …

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    Comment #16098569

    Thanks for sharing Nick! Happy to answer any questions you guys have on GoRails, screencasting, etc.

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    Comment #13835094

    Thanks for the GoRails shoutout! <3