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Thanks @aantix :D

We use these both for https://jumpstartrails.com and it works great. You have to build your own authentication and native navigation, but for launching your app on mobile and the web, it's hard to beat.

Yeah, we're going to replace Administrate sometime soon with our own admin. Most of the admin gems don't do a great job surprisingly.

Just need to finish adding some more features to madmin.

Yeah, Avo is a great alternative to the free admin we ship with (Administrate). And Jumpstart Pro customers get 20% off their first year of Avo. Thanks for sharing that discount Adrian!

Thanks Josh! I appreciate you!

Creator of Jumpstart Pro here!

There have been a couple huge successes with it. One of them is processing millions in revenue a month. A lot of others are doing well and chugging along. Can't share the exact ones without permission, but I've been blown away it.

At the end of the day, it's nice to help people focus on their unique business features and not payments, teams, etc.

Thanks for the support! Glad you've been enjoying Hatchbox. We're wrapping up v2 and can't wait to share it. Upgrading to Caddy for the web server has been wonderful.

That would be so much fun. I originally started GoRails because I missed Railscasts so much. <3 I learned everything from Railscasts when I started with Rails.

I tweeted about my first $1k/mo GitHub sponsor recently. https://twitter.com/excid3/status/1250428994303885313

A lot of the sponsors that do well are ones that offer things that the sponsor wants. Trading a couple hours a month consulting for $1k/mo in sponsorship helps make it worth doing to the donors. They want to support you, but they also probably could use your help.

Effectively you're productizing consulting and that flips it from a donation to a purchase. They get a tangible thing for their money this way. I think that helps a lot for making sponsorships more successful.

I've been working on something like this for Ruby on Rails in case anyone is interested. It has multitenancy, billing separate for each tenant, automatic query filtering for the current tenant, etc. https://jumpstartrails.com

The countermeasures to session fixation are covered in the official Rails guides: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-fixatio...

Thanks for the recommendation of GoRails! I started screencasting a few years back because I missed Railscasts and learned just about everything from Ryan Bates. Wish he was still around in the community.

If anyone ever has suggestions on Ruby / Rails topics to cover, let me know!

You guys are the best! :D

I'm using Passenger for serving up apps, which supports Python, Node, and Ruby. Got some basic Node support right now, but have plans to add Python soon. I haven't used Python deeply for quite a few years, so I've got a lot to catch up on to figure out what'd be best for that.

Shoot me an email and we should chat about Python support! chris @ gorails com

Yes, of course it's still worth learning. Whether you learn Rails, Django, or anything else, the concepts will apply pretty well for any web framework.

I've been making screencasts for Rails developers at GoRails (https://gorails.com) showing how to build various features of websites in Rails.

If you're a beginner though, I would first recommend the Rails Tutorial - https://www.railstutorial.org/book

Appreciate that! :D

I've been working on a solution for deploying Rails called Hatchbox. (https://hatchbox.io) Basically wanted to offer something as easy to deploy as Heroku, but on your own servers so you could host on DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. A lot of people have been deploying 50% cheaper than their Heroku bills which is fantastic.

Feel free to email me, chris@gorails.com if you have any questions or want to chat and see if it'd be a good solution for you!

Creator of Hatchbox.io here! I was surprised to see this on here, which is awesome. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help!

Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate the support!

I definitely am considering offering courses that either package up a series or a topic. That seems to be a good way of solving that balance between the different types of customers I see.

Primarily, I use it for just hosting paid content in a protected way. They do have awesome lead tracking, analytics, email captures and things but your bandwidth can cost a lot if you do that too much. It doesn't quite work out financially with a low-cost screencast business like mine. Probably better for marketing teams with a budget and higher cost products.

Thanks for sharing Nick! Happy to answer any questions you guys have on GoRails, screencasting, etc.

Thanks for the GoRails shoutout! <3

This is the last I heard. http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1ysbdb/any_news_about...

I'm going to be cutting those down into multiple episodes. 15 minutes is about the maximum length for keeping interest it seems.

Thanks Justin! I'm shooting you an email now. :)

He deserves it. I'm not sure what happens exactly, but I know he's not charging the monthly fee anymore since he isn't active. It may just be a one-time $9 to get access to pro episodes.

My friend (https://twitter.com/buddylindsey) does http://GoDjango.com.

Gary Bernhardt did a fantastic job with Destroy All Software and I wish he was continuing them. I really enjoyed his approach to screencasts because they were so thought-provoking. Hard to stop watching them at times.

Thanks! One thing I noticed is that people who did complain about audio quality weren't receiving as much value from the content.

So far, the feedback from people who learned from an episode was that they didn't even notice the audio quality was bad which I'm happy about. It will improve as I have practice, but the content should matter more than the quality of audio.