RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel
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#2Railscasts definitely helped me
Become a better engineer, and I remember eagerly waiting for each new episode. Thank you Ryan for all your hard work!
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#3The article says it was too sustainable but we have to wait for the next part to find out why. Cliffhanger ending! Very interested in why this couldn’t be sustained.
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#4rbates, if you're reading this, thank you!
I learned so much from railscasts in my early software engineering journey. Your videos took me from copy-pasta extraordinaire to actually understanding how to build complex features and wire things together.
I wouldn't be where I am today without you.
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#5RailsCasts helped me so much in getting started with Rails in the late 2000s. It opened my eyes to how one can effectively structure a web application in general, from caching to authorisation. Ryan’s explanations were concise yet accessible; it felt like a colleague showing me cool stuff.
I figured it must have been popular, but wouldn’t have guessed as high as $1M revenue. Looking forward to reading the rest of this series.
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#6The article says it was too sustainable but we have to wait for the next part to find out why. Cliffhanger ending! Very interested in why this couldn’t be sustained.
Some people find public self-promotion 1000x as exhausting as other people. I can imagine that this could have been part of it.
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#7I got my start in web development right around the time Ryan started RailsCasts, the early days of Rails. He inspired a generation of developers, me included, to learn the ins and outs of the framework and its ecosystem. His weekly posts were required viewing. I’d catch myself at work using his catch phrases: “Yay that works!”
I’d encourage anyone who hasn’t seen RailsCasts to check it out. Many software content creators follow in his footsteps. He set a standard for teaching through screencasts that still holds up today.
I’m looking forward to reading the rest of his series.
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#8I started writing code professionally in the mid 90s, and by ~2010 I was very burnt out.
Rails was a breath of fresh air. Both the framework and language themselves, but also the communities. It helped me feel rejuvenated and ready for a second chapter in my career.
Ryan and RailsCasts were a BIG part of that.
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#9I owe a lot to Ryan Bates and Railscasts for transforming from a CS student to junior software engineer. It provided the details in mentorship that supplemented what I received IRL at work.
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#10RailsCasts was awesome, thank you!