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Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by aculver »

pc86 wrote: post #50
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.

Thank you! This was the work of Tamik Soziev, who also created the original theme for Bullet Train itself. I'll make sure to pass on the note!

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by brightball »

skinkestek wrote: post #61

This might be a good place for a Java programmer to say thank you to the Rails community for your relentless mocking of Spring and Enterprise Java back in the days. Java is wonderful these days, and seriously I think you guys are a one of the major reasons why Java is so great today.

And honestly, with jRuby there’s no reason you can’t just jump in this pool.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by obiefernandez »

skinkestek wrote: post #61

This might be a good place for a Java programmer to say thank you to the Rails community for your relentless mocking of Spring and Enterprise Java back in the days. Java is wonderful these days, and seriously I think you guys are a one of the major reasons why Java is so great today.

You’re welcome. Hehehe

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by hu3 »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #80
wg0 wrote: post #69

If you are doing an MVP prototype or the code would be the client's problem once you're done with your consulting, such bulk boilerplate is fine. I have extensively worked with Python and Ruby in past but my conclusion is that even though they ramp you up in the beginning but as the code base grows, it becomes harder to guess deeper in the codebase to guess what objects you're dealing with. Specifically in case or Ru…

> to guess what objects you're dealing with I don't understand, why are you guessing? Do you mean the parent objects of things you've written? Like ActiveRecord, etc. I would think that mental overhead is the same in any web+CRUD+ORM type of framework.

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.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by brightball »

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.

Re: Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Post by davedx »

skinkestek wrote: post #61

This might be a good place for a Java programmer to say thank you to the Rails community for your relentless mocking of Spring and Enterprise Java back in the days. Java is wonderful these days, and seriously I think you guys are a one of the major reasons why Java is so great today.

Yeah Ruby on Rails and its associated projects have had such a giant, positive impact on development at large.
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