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Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by cutler »

lowercased wrote: post #112
tough wrote: post #75

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Companies like tailwind Engineers learn to work with it due to that simple fact. It's OK tbh, and it's easily interoperable between stacks so not really hard to pick up and useful if your project already uses it. I tried to fight it at first, but I've only seen it being used more and more. Why fight the stream if there's no good reason for it?

> Why fight the stream if there's no good reason for it? Why jump tool chains when you already have more than enough on your plate to keep up with? I watched a conference presentation last week from a front-end person who talked about FE design. He pulled up a slide on bootstrap and said "if you use bootstrap, everything will end up looking like twitter. your login page won't be able to be creative, you'll just look…

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Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by cutler »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #36
andrei_says_ wrote: post #15

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Did you end up using tailwind with jump start rails? Any way around it? I like the idea of jump start rails but would like to stay away from tailwindcss.

Have you tried it on a real project? Tailwind is a huge time saver when compared to traditional CSS or SASS.

How on earth can styling every **damn hyperlink inline over and over again be a time saver?

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by dewey »

cutler wrote: post #122
jonwinstanley wrote: post #36

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Have you tried it on a real project? Tailwind is a huge time saver when compared to traditional CSS or SASS.

How on earth can styling every **damn hyperlink inline over and over again be a time saver?

You don’t have to if you define it globally.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

wg0 wrote: post #113
hu3 wrote: post #87

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I guess what your parent poster is saying is that: without types, all you have is the variable name to guess what it does. IDEs help but there's only so much they can do.

Yes that's what I meant. All you have is a variable and IDEs can't figure it all if there's no type on it. Not just that, let's say even if type is known but some of the methods are generated on runtime than IDE has no idea about it.

That’s not unique to Ruby though, I imagine most dynamic languages fall into this bucket.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by aculver »

jack_riminton wrote: post #54
brightball wrote: post #52

Is this using Hotwire?

They seem to have their own 'reactive' way of doing it called Sprinkles but I don't think they've open sourced it yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NqjpInVIjc&t=181s

Update on this: We do now include Turbo by default and the "Cable Collections" feature in the linked video has been completely reimplemented by the CableReady team in a feature called "Updatable", which we now use in Bullet Train. You can learn more about it at https://cableready.stimulusreflex.com/guide/updatable.html . Very grateful for the work they did on this and grateful to not have to maintain a proprietary reactivity library going forward!

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by aculver »

brightball wrote: post #88
aculver wrote: post #40

Wow, hi everyone! Was just about to walk over for the first day of RailsConf when a friend let me know we were #1 here! Honored! I'm the original creator of Bullet Train, although a number of people now work on it. It's been a fun journey to this point! When I first started building Bullet Train, it was a relatively unique offering. There weren't that many full-featured "SaaS starter kits" out there, although there w…

The "Join the Mailing List" link on the home page is dead now btw.

Thank you for pointing this out! Fixing now!

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by pythonaut_16 »

rosszurowski wrote: post #30

I haven't used Bullet Train, but I've found their "Teams should be an MVP feature" blog post [1] a really great overview of how to model team structures in relational databases before. Worth a read! [1]: https://blog.bullettrain.co/teams-should-be-an-mvp-feature/

Do you have any recommendations for more resources like this?

I've had a hard time searching for patterns and tips for modeling common data/features for web applications.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by skinkestek »

szundi wrote: post #72
wg0 wrote: post #65

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I recall when I started even with Rails pre Rails 2.0, the Spring framework was a horror show. Good luck with XML plumbing and then annotations wiring and then dependency injection container and AbstractBusinessProxyFascadSingletonFactory whereas in contrast, Rails seems light years ahead from controllers to templating to ORM.

Why the downvotes?

Didn't downvote, but the constant mixing up of criticism against XML nonsense (justified) with criticism of annotations (why? Have so many people seen code bases that abuse them?) might be one reason.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by rmason »

aculver wrote: post #40

Wow, hi everyone! Was just about to walk over for the first day of RailsConf when a friend let me know we were #1 here! Honored! I'm the original creator of Bullet Train, although a number of people now work on it. It's been a fun journey to this point! When I first started building Bullet Train, it was a relatively unique offering. There weren't that many full-featured "SaaS starter kits" out there, although there w…

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