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How to build a SaaS Rails site in one hour

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
A lot of us are building web applications that we sell (or hope to sell) to customers on a subscription basis, like Catch the Best. Every time you and...

The book has arrived!

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I spent Thursday and Friday in DC at my company’s annual anniversary event - we had loads of fun, as you might be able to tell from these pics. After...

1 tip to make your customers love you

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I used to love the company Overnight Prints. They offer a great product at reasonable prices and with reasonable service. Until this week, I had no reservation...

Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Last summer I had a client project that involved customers using a web application to create web sites that were themed (think hosted CMS or hosted blog...

Sample OpenID application updated for latest Rails and OpenID gem

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Some of my more popular blog posts are the ones detailing my work on modifying the acts_as_authenticated plugin to work with the open_id_authentication...

Advanced RESTful Rails, done

over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So I’ve been absent for a while - in no small part because I’ve been prepping for my Railsconf talk on Advanced RESTful Rails, which I gave yesterday...

Rails developers needed in Seattle

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Are you doing Ruby on Rails work in Seattle? Do you want more work? I have a number of clients, large and small, who are looking for both contractors...

Rails 2.1 gotcha with has_one

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I just updated the SaaS Rails Kit for Rails 2.1, and added a couple new payment gateways, and I thought I’d mention a behavior change in Rails 2.1 that...

Gitosis for protected git repositories

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
A number of Rails Kits customers asked for access to the git repository for the Kit they purchased, and I considered using GitHub for that, but this kind...

RESTful searching in Rails

over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Over and over again I see people asking about how to do a search the “RESTful way” with Rails, and every time I do I just shake my head and wonder why...