In this episode of Running in Production, Dieter Lunn goes over building a job board site for school bus drivers and aides using Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on DigitalOcean with HatchBox.

Dieter talks about using a bit of StimulusJS to add pins to a map, keeping things simple with a monolithic app, working on the code base with another developer, upgrading to the latest versions on a regular basis and using HatchBox to manage the servers.

Topics Include

3:13 – What the site does and examples of what types of pages it has
5:21 – Motivation for using Ruby on Rails
7:02 – Specific features of Rails and gems being used
11:04 – Using StimulusJS for placing pins on an embedded 2D map
14:02 – One feature lets you get emailed when new positions open at a company
15:40 – It’s a server rendered monolithic Rails app with sprinkles of JS
19:14 – Keeping your gems up to date
23:15 – Using Pundit to manage authorization
25:27 – Keeping up with the latest versions and having an app starter project
27:09 – It’s hosted with HatchBox on DigitalOcean
32:02 – Walking us through developing a feature and deploying it to production
38:07 – Payments are handled outside of the Rails app
39:39 – Automation feels pretty good!
43:45 – Currently Honeybadger sends notifications if the site is down
45:47 – Best tips? Take your time and trust what others have built
48:08 – You can find Dieter on GitHub and on Twitter

Links

📄 References

https://gorails.com
https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rails-through-screencast-tutorials-on-gorails
https://github.com/coder2000/campestral (Rails template starter project)
https://www.hatchbox.io/

⚙️ Tech Stack

🛠 Libraries Used

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