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I've liked the books I've gotten from them (usually from Reginald) and will definitely get this one. Fun fact - I remember meeting their founder (Peter Armstro
by ludicast 10y ago
I've liked the books I've gotten from them (usually from Reginald) and will definitely get this one.
Fun fact - I remember meeting their founder (Peter Armstrong I think) at RailsConf many years back. He had just written "flex on rails", which was a great book (though both those technologies are unsexy these days). He mentioned his idea for something like LeanPub (though I'm not sure how far along he was at the time).
Great seeing him/them execute on this and become the de facto for self-publishing.
- git-pull 10y agoSo far LeanPub has been great for me. Or else I'd be futzing around with Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/ http://www.sphinx-doc.org/). I'm a happy publisher at this time. My customers are also happy.
- peterarmstrong 10y agoThanks! It's hard to believe that Flexible Rails, and my talk about it at a RailsConf BOF, was almost a decade ago! Flex was controversial then, but it is beyond unsexy now :) (Full backstory here: https://leanpub.com/lean/read https://leanpub.com/lean/read) I have my cofounders, especially Scott Patten who has been there since the first commit, to thank for so much of how far we've come since then. And ironically, when you hook a single-page React app up to a Rails backend (which is what we do in the Leanpub storefront), what you get is (to me, anyway) reminiscent of the approach I was advocating in Flexible Rails...