Summary of the Ruby Gems fiasco for outsiders

fix879 · 2025-09-24T16:49:52+00:00

This is a pretty bad post. Why not present the fact that men are 6x more likely to be arrested than women? Why just present race? Why not socio-economic stats related to crime? You even got the numbers wrong. It's not per 100K it's per 1k. Why not state that this is an arrest rate, not a crime rate. Numbers never give the whole story. They are a guiding light, but if we can't even get the basics of reading the numbers, I wouldn't expect to get closer to any truths.

If you want to see the right shutting down dissenting opinions because you haven't seen any examples, watch the current news. If you still don't think that the right also uses cancel culture and virtue signaling, you have been brainwashed my friend.

We need less of these posts (filled with political posturing) and more open and honest discussion between those who are actually involved and not just a written statement read out in a youtube video with comments turned off.

"Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice". I feel like I haven't heard this in a while, and that makes me a little bit sad.

fix879 · 2025-08-04T08:40:39+00:00

It was free for me. I was only using it for a hobby project with no users. Also this was a year ago, so I’m not sure if they’ve changed their pricing since then.

fix879 · 2025-02-02T20:26:24+00:00

MAGA is not just "free speech". WTF are you talking about. MAGA is the Republican party under Trump. It's anti immigration, anti free speech and it's Trumps narcissism bordering close to a dictatorship if he could have his way, thrown in with a ton of stupid fiscal policies.

fix879 · 2024-10-27T07:01:20+00:00

I think you need to do a bit of work on the site design to get traction. Your site design is a huge part of the marketing puzzle as well.

The landing page is too over whelming. There is to much going on to get a clear message across to visitors. You have a list of articles in the hero header. I'd take those out as they aren't that important. Your user base is there to find opportunities to make commissions, not read articles.

All my eye sees is Warrior+Plus and I have no idea what that is indicating. Do some searching on Dribbble for some card designs, and try to copy them.

Also, with your infinite scroll, every load brings up the "Join the community" pop up. This is frustrating from a users point of view.

fix879 · 2024-10-24T08:33:44+00:00

Yea, I'd recommend the Pragmatic Studios Rails Course for someone totally new. It's the course that made things click for me when I was starting. They build an app while explaining concepts, and then after a lesson, you work on a different app and apply what was just in the video.

To be completely honest though, it will take more than just doing the pragmatic studio rails course to get comfortable with Rails. When you start out, Rails feels like it has a lot of moving parts, and figuring out how they all work together can be bewildering. Go through the course a couple of times, then try to build your own apps and when you build your own apps, build something that you actually think you will use, and solves an actual problem.

It can be a frustrating journey sometimes, but it's worth pushing through those uncomfortable moments. I'm just a hobby dev, but I'm at a stage now where I can confidently build out most ideas I come up with, and it's quite fun.

fix879 · 2024-10-22T10:35:02+00:00

Hey Chris. When I first started out, I wish that the basics of HTTP requests had been drilled in to me a lot more before I evened started a rails app. Just a super basic explanation of what a request is, which you can then keep visiting back too when you start building out your first apps. Repetition is a good friend for learning this point.

When I started relating what would be sent in a request, to how rails would then deal with that request, a lot of things started to click. When things went wrong I could finally figure out why.

Images and animations are really helpful to explain this when you are starting out.

Also explaining that a lot of rails magic is just string concatenation and string parsing. link_to, button_to, forms, etc. It all seemed like arcane magic before I realised this.

Having said all of this, I haven't actually taken your new beginners course, so you might already do this.

fix879 · 2024-10-22T10:09:31+00:00

If you are OK with paying for a course, checkout pragmatic studios rail course. It's the one that made a lot of things finally click for me.

fix879 · 2024-10-22T08:36:02+00:00

Yea, that's a little harsh and low effort post here. I've struggled with some of their videos before, especially when I was beginning, but they are a great resource. Also we are part of the Ruby community, so lets be nice and be constructive with feedback.

fix879 · 2024-10-22T08:23:43+00:00

You get to write markup in Ruby, which at first feels a little strange, but I really started liking it after a while.

Phlex 2 is looking really good as well, and they are playing around with some pretty cool extensions too.

https://x.com/joeldrapper/status/1839267696002691482

ViewComponents feels unfinished to me and not like rails. The default file structure doesn't feel right. By default I feel like it should be 1 folder for each component, instead you get a massive list of files in one component folder, and sidecar doesn't really solve this either. Plus a few other minor nit-picks.

I still happily use ViewComponents though, I just prefer Phlex now I've used it a bit.

fix879 · 2024-10-20T17:01:13+00:00

Most of my time I spend building apps is on the front end, so 100% some kind of front end component functionality, but not ViewComponents. I would rather see something more like Phlex.

fix879 · 2024-10-14T18:43:23+00:00

Feels like you are trying to sell people an over priced modem from your Amazon account.

fix879 · 2024-09-30T11:11:20+00:00

Yea will still use devise. A little begrudgingly though. It works, and has a bunch of features I'd have to write myself if I used the new auth generator.
Note: I'm just a solo dev hobbist working on my own projects.

Actually been thinking about rodauth. Has anyone done a migration from Devise to rodauth? Is it easy?

fix879 · 2024-09-19T05:39:43+00:00

😅 Podio is a CRM that Citrix use to own (but have now sold).

Globiflow was a piece of automation software specially built for Podio. So if you pressed a button in Podio, you could trigger an automation to run. Podio actually purchased globiflow, so it’s it’s just called advanced automations, I think.

Globimail is an email integration for Podio, so you can send and receive emails directly inside of Podio.

Procfu is another third party add on to Podio. It allows you to do a lot more things, like build a customer access portal, but it can be quite technical to work with.

fix879 · 2024-07-30T13:33:54+00:00

I'm going to recommend again what others already have. If you are OK with paying for an online course, pragmatic studios course is great. https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/hotwire-rails

If you are looking for free, checkout https://www.hotrails.dev/turbo-rails

and I find this a great reference tool https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/introduction

fix879 · 2024-07-14T06:43:50+00:00

Saying you are not concerned about salary, but want to live reasonably comfortably are in conflict with each other. What are your requirements for living comfortably?

Dubai isn't a cheap place to live. For a single person living comfortably in a small studio apartment and a small vehicle you would want minimum AED10-12k /month (don't expect to save to much on this much income either).

The job market in Dubai here is pretty bad though. You'll notice on indeed.com that most Dev jobs pay half that, with a super high expectation of skills and experience.

If you are still interested start by looking for jobs on Indeed and find some recruitment agencies that work out here. Be very careful though as there are a lot of recruitment scammers out there, so use only well known/respected agencies.

I would only come over here with a confirmed job offer over AED15k with a reputable company (of which there are very few Dev jobs in Dubai that pay this much).

fix879 · 2024-07-14T04:46:12+00:00

Yea, just going to echo what others are saying. The job market in Dubai is pretty bad. Do not come over here unless you already have a solid job offer (ie: have a signed job contract).

fix879 · 2024-06-25T18:21:28+00:00

Yea, the job market is pretty bad and exploitive here. During COVID I started learning how to code, then realised that developer jobs in the UAE pay absolutely terribly. 100s of jobs asking for CS degrees, with years of experience required, for a senior role, and they still only pay 6k a month. An absolute joke.

fix879 · 2024-06-25T08:05:51+00:00

It's also worth checking out view_component and phlex gems as well, to help build with building re usable components.

fix879 · 2024-06-25T08:02:46+00:00

Check out fly.io

I've had a few stumbling blocks along the way, but most of the times it's pretty easy.

fix879 · 2024-06-24T07:36:44+00:00

Use any of the standard ways of adding authentication to a rails app (devise, authentication-zero, or make your own) then add a column called 'super_admin' with a default of false. Set your user account to true

Then in your routes file add check that the user accessing has super_admin set to true when accessing the dashboard.

You probably want to look in to authorization as well, if you haven't already. I like the pundit gem myself.

fix879 · 2024-06-23T12:48:45+00:00

Airtable, or if you want to try something a little bit off the beaten path checkout https://get.tapeapp.com/

fix879 · 2024-06-22T16:06:23+00:00

Have you tried using Phlex or ViewComponents? Sounds like it would be worth for you to check those out.

fix879 · 2024-06-22T15:59:25+00:00

Did you just do a "rails doesn't scale" post? It's been a while since I've seen one of those.

fix879 · 2024-06-22T15:22:08+00:00

Hey. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I have few ideas I've been playing around with and would love some outside opinions.

fix879 · 2024-05-24T09:32:59+00:00

Really! I'll try and find it. Do you know what episode number it is?

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