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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey HN — I recently published an article diving into the bin/dev script included in most Ruby on Rails 7 projects, as well as the Procfile.dev (based on the Heroku Procfile). I throw in a few tips and tricks too, so even if you're
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Procfile.dev, bin/dev, and Rails 7 – how they work, and why they're great(railsnotes.xyz)
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
https://railsnotes.xyz Building SaaS wasn't working out for me, so i've been taking everything I've learnt from building Ruby on Rails apps and posting it here. - Learn Stimulus — https://railsnotes.xyz
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey thank you for the feedback! I'll go and make some edits now. With the app.json file, can you confirm what the default path for it should be? it seems like the default is placing app.json in the root directory of a project, but i&#x
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey HN — recently, I've been digging into Dokku, and how we can use it to deploy a Ruby on Rails app. I've tried to compile everything I've learnt from a week of tinkering with Hetzner servers, lot's of trial and error,
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Deploy Ruby on Rails with Dokku – (Includes Redis, Sidekiq, ARM Servers, Docker)(railsnotes.xyz)
4 points by hbroadbent 3y ago|8 comments
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Unfortunately I haven't come up with a good solution either beyond hiding the element with CSS, and then showing it when the controller connects (which isn't ideal). I'd love any suggestions though for different techniques
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Thank you! I agree - I've seen other articles creating very specific controllers, which gets you into the issue of having heaps of specific controllers which could just be 1. Glad you found the article useful!
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey HN! For those new to Rails, Stimulus ( https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/ ) is a way to sprinkle frontend javascript code into your Rails views. I held off using Stimulus in my Rails apps for a long time because I didn't
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Learn Stimulus in Ruby on Rails by Building a Toggle)(railsnotes.xyz)
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
For a long time, I held off using Hotwire in my Rails apps, because I didn't understand it, and because I found the official documentation hard to digest. So I decided to write the guide I wish I had when I was learning Hotwire. The sa
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Learn Hotwire by building the simplest Ruby on Rails and Hotwire app possible(monn.app)
3 points by hbroadbent 3y ago|2 comments
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey, I recently was working on some transactional email stuff and decided to give ActionMailer a shot. Overall it turned out really well, so I thought I'd write up something about it. Hope it's useful! (From the ROR guide — "
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Adding ActionMailer into a Rails App(monn.app)
3 points by hbroadbent 3y ago|1 comments
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Deploying a Rails App on Render with Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, and Cron Jobs(monn.app)
6 points by hbroadbent 3y ago|1 comments
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by hbroadbent 3y ago
Hey — I wrote up this blog post and it was received well on reddit and in the rails community, so I thought I'd repost it here too for the hn crowd. A shortish post going over how to deploy a slightly-more-complex-than-usual Rails app
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by hbroadbent 5y ago
Hey I know I'm late but that's a great suggestion! Thanks!
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by hbroadbent 5y ago
Lately I've been working on Sponsaurus, a tool to help email newsletter writers book and manage sponsorships. I've got a demo up here - https://demo.sponsaurus.com/wells-weekly And a bit more info on a landing pa
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by hbroadbent 5y ago
this week I've been hacking away on an advertising booking systems for people publishing email newsletters. I'd love to chat with people in this space! If you're interested, you can check it out - https://www.spons
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Ask HN: Algolia, for Google Scholar?
1 points by hbroadbent 5y ago|0 comments
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by hbroadbent 5y ago
I built - https://github.com/harrison-broadbent/libgen-api - a library genesis client for Python, after having reliability / usability issues with the alternatives.
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by hbroadbent 6y ago
Hey HN, I've been working on this for a while now (over a year, intermittently) and thought it would be fun to share. Hope some of you find this interesting / useful. Cheers.
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Show HN: Libgen-API – Python library for Library Genesis(github.com)
2 points by hbroadbent 6y ago|1 comments
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by hbroadbent 6y ago
Just saw this - yeah that's fair enough, I generally just dump notes into the IOS notes app, and most of the time never go back to bring them into my journal. Not sure how to bridge that divide. Timeline looks like a really cool projec
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by hbroadbent 6y ago
Hey HN, quickly threw this together over a couple of nights. I like to use a simple text file as a journal, I put this together to automatically generate properly dated entries. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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Show HN: JGen – Text-based journal generator(github.com)
16 points by hbroadbent 6y ago|3 comments
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by hbroadbent 7y ago
hey, I just wanted to say that I checked out your site and resume and both look great! I'm not hiring or anything but just wanted to wish you all the best, it's pretty clear that your quality of work is very high so I'm sure