School Bus Hero Helps School Bus Drivers and Aides Find a Job
with Nick Janetakis and Dieter Lunn
Running in Production · Nick Janetakis
August 23, 202149m 58s
Show Notes
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/