In this episode of Running in Production, CJ Avilla goes over building a fund raising platform with Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on Heroku and has been running in production since 2015.
CJ talks about rewriting an app with Rails, processing $30 million dollars of donations, using Stripe, maintaining a Rails 4.2 app, carefully sending out bulk emails, ensuring good tests are written, keeping things simple and more.
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