Ask HN: What have you built with Rails lately?
I know RoR isn't as fashionable as it used to be.
But I also know that there are tons of Rails devs out there still making cool stuff.
What have you built lately?
But I also know that there are tons of Rails devs out there still making cool stuff.
What have you built lately?
I debated what stack to use. I thought maybe I should use this as an opportunity to go deep into Node + React or Vue, or maybe Laravel.
Ultimately I decided to stick to what I know best — my end goal is to build a business, not experiment.
In the end this turned out to be a good decision because WOW are there a lot of moving parts to doing affiliate software correctly & robustly. It would’ve probably doubled development time if I had simultaneously been mastering a new stack.
The app is built in boring old Rails & Bootstrap. But not a single customer has mentioned the tech - they only care that Rewardful solves their problem. This experience has been a good reminder about what matters!
I'm hoping to fill a personal need for a tool to help me keep up to date with blogs and other sites I follow. I hate notification spam, so I'm trying to centralize it on one app.
Also been learning some varied deploy practices. Explored my way through Docker and Gitlab integrations, checked out Google Cloud. After all of that I still preferred running a bare linux server while I'm pretty much the only one using it.
- Communities List (http://www.communitieslist.com/) & Closeknit (http://www.closeknit.co/) for finding and building communities;
- 24agenda (https://www.24agenda.com/en) an appointment management solution currently deployed in Portugal;
- SciShare (http://www.sci-share.com/) a scientific reference management platform;
- Octotrack (https://www.octotrack.com/) a dependency and security manager for rails projects;
My agency alternatelabs.co uses Rails for nearly all our projects as we think it’s still the most productive framework for building most businesses in 2018.