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Simple continuous deployment with Github post-commit hooks and Deploy Button

railsjedi — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:57:25 +0000

Article URL: http://deploybutton.tumblr.com/post/35296020855/we-now-support-github-post-commit-hooks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4760345

Points: 3

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New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: I built this in 5 minutes, and this is why Ratchet is awesome"

railsjedi — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:52:53 +0000

Looks great, is there a hosted link somewhere for people to play with without having to download?

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released"

railsjedi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:49:32 +0000

Yep, just the main national tracking polls. We email every one out so at the state level it might get overwhelming. And we can't really put too much into a filtering setup since it's a product that'll autodeadpool in 2 weeks :)

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released"

railsjedi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:25:27 +0000

Oh, come on. It's only 2 more weeks. Just think of it like a really big sporting event, except way less impactful ;)

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released"

railsjedi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:02:08 +0000

We'll also be tweeting out poll results from http://twitter.com/pingpoll

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released"

railsjedi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:24:03 +0000

Developer here. I helped build this site after noticing I was checking presidential polls like 12 times a day and really wanted a quick disposable tool for the next 2 weeks to get them as soon as they are released.

On Nov 6th, we'll shut the site down and permanently delete the entire list.

Hope you find it useful!

Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released

railsjedi — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://pingpoll.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697915

Points: 42

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New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)"

railsjedi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:40:43 +0000

Definitely. I bet there's a lot of companies / startups who need something quick and simple though. So lots of room for both solutions.

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)"

railsjedi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:30:57 +0000

CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.

New comment by railsjedi in "Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced"

railsjedi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:29:35 +0000

Awesome, thanks a ton! Fixing up deploybutton now, hope to have some of the bugs worked out soon.

New comment by railsjedi in "DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server"

railsjedi — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:44:20 +0000

Luckily great tools have been built for this. We use Opscode Chef and it's life changing. After an admittedly painful learning hump, we're able to completely power our sysadmin via code.

DeployButton is just the trigger button, not the missile :)

New comment by railsjedi in "DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server"

railsjedi — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:35:35 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. As you may already know, this was built for the 48hour Rails Rumble hackathon. So it will definitely have quirks and there's a ton of stuff we had to cut (like collab git access instead of full oauth which i believe would have solved most security concerns).

Dropbox let us set things up nicely, where we opt for only a single folder (Apps/DeployButton) and we can only see stuff you place directly inside.

The main appeal of DeployButton for me was to have a service I could easily connect to Campfire/Hipchat to script out deployments from there. It's not that deploying is "hard", it's that it's tedious and I believe should always done as a collaborative experience instead of solo.

More feedback greatly appreciated. Site and workers are already overloaded (we didnt anticipate an HN post). So apologies in advance.

New comment by railsjedi in "Unholy Rails: External Scripts, jQuery Plugins, and Page-Specific JavaScript"

railsjedi — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:11:28 +0000

Awesome writeup! Rails asset management can get pretty complex for newbies, but with a few good strategies like described in the article, it can be tamed and managed without too much trouble.

New comment by railsjedi in "NReduce online demo day: live and public"

railsjedi — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:07:34 +0000

Completely agree, it should be emphasized that nReduce isn't trying to compete with existing accelerators. I think it's actually a great first step for companies to get to the point where they can join one (since the good ones tend to require serious traction just to get in).

Personally the best thing our team got out of being an nReduce participant is the weekly checkins. Having 12 video checkins that document our progress has been really useful for showing investors the amount of progress our team can make week by week. We intend to continue this habit throughout the life of the company.

Patent Thermonuclear War simulator

railsjedi — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:57:25 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/patent-arms-race-fuels-mobiles-doomsday-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4479922

Points: 2

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New comment by railsjedi in "App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users"

railsjedi — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:54:49 +0000

Actually, App.net is quite useful already with it's 17k users (as was twitter when it had that many people).

It doesn't have to compete with Twitter, just provide a growing self sustaining user base of paying customers. Seems like an ok business strategy to me.

New comment by railsjedi in "Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing"

railsjedi — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:20:29 +0000

I would pay (prepay) for this. OmniGraffle has been painfully slow to improve, and just doesn't seem to cater to web or app ui design. Unfortunately it's the best thing out there so far. Need something better.

Build this as a native app and charge $monthly. That way people can get started with it for cheap and if you keep making a good product, they'll keep paying you for it.

I really feel like the 1 time app charge model is severely broken for consumers. Omnigraffle gets my $200 bucks and all of a sudden there's nothing I can do to influence them anymore as a customer. The product stays pretty much the same for 4 years, as they move on to find the next pot of gold app to build.

New comment by railsjedi in "Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js"

railsjedi — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:46:13 +0000

Sorry, I just meant compared to Rails in terms of impact. Ember is nothing like Rails architecturally. There's a good comparison here: http://emberjs.com/guides/ember_mvc/

So yeah. Ember's problem is convincing people there's a problem (hint: there definitely is).

New comment by railsjedi in "Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js"

railsjedi — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:31:47 +0000

pangratz has created an awesome example dashboard app (along with source) http://code418.com/ember.js-dashboard/. He also wrote up a dev blog series on it: http://code418.com/

New comment by railsjedi in "Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js"

railsjedi — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:20:30 +0000

Perfect article and explanation. After having bought into Ember a couple months ago and using it heavily, it's been really hard to express to others why it feels so revolutionary.

Ember really changes JS development in ways that the other frameworks don't even attempt. And in a way this hurts it in the perception of developers, since it more often than not is just tagged as "too complicated" or "too much to learn".

The more great articles like this, and I think there'll be a solid chance Ember catches on in a big way the same way Rails did. With 1.0rc, the tech seems to be solid enough now and it just needs a push on the other stuff (education, marketing, etc). And most importantly: some more successful Ember apps out in the wild (I'm working on that one).