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Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by clairity »

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/

nice! that's something i stumbled over when re-architecting a 2-sided marketplace (in rails) for one of my startups. the data model they describe is roughly what i ended up with, but it took some iterating to get there. the key understanding was that the relation table in a many-to-many relationship is not just a technical detail but encodes important information about real world systems, especially the human kind. as engineers, we get often get stuck on the entities being the important bits, but more often, the relations are where all the action is.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by aculver »

thih9 wrote: post #26
andrei_says_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why? Note, Bullet Train also uses tailwind.

Yes, this is true that we lean heavily into Tailwind CSS by default. However, when I implemented our "new" component system in 2021, I designed it so that there was a path forward for Bullet Train on vanilla CSS or Bootstrap if anyone wanted to implement it. I don't have any plans to do it myself, but people (including Tamik, the original theme author for Bullet Train) have expressed an interest. I'd love to see it happen. You can get a sense for how this would be possible from our theme docs at https://bullettrain.co/docs/themes.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by pibefision »

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/

I'am using another framework, but this post about Teams was pure light to me. Tks

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by clairity »

tikkun wrote: post #6

It'd be nice if there was a way to try the demo without signing in. That said, this looks like a good product. Are there other similar/competing things for Rails, and are there other competing SaaS-in-a-box things for other frameworks?

rails has the concept of app templates, so you can create this for yourself. here's one step-by-step example: https://citizen428.net/blog/rails-quick-tips-5-create-apps-f...

there are also repositories, like https://railsbytes.com/, where you can peruse similarly pre-composed app templates of varying quality.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by [deleted] »

devmandan wrote: post #34

Building from scratch wastes a ton of time and I'm a big fan of starting with some working parts and customizing from there. I think with what's going on with AI it makes sense to use python more because all the researchers love python and make examples available through python notebooks. Then your tech stack is less split amongst many languages and there is less complexity and you can hire developers for cheaper. Ru…

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Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by pc86 »

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…

I don't want to derail but have to ask, is the theme/template for your site custom? It's beautiful.

Edit: To clarify I mean the marketing site linked here, not the starter template.

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