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Buildasaasappinrails

A 400+ page book and codebase that teaches how to build a paid SaaS in Rails 8 by connecting authentication, billing, background jobs, email, webhooks, real-time UI and deployment in one app

A 400+ page book and accompanying codebase that teaches how to build a paid SaaS application in Rails 8, showing how authentication, billing, background jobs, email, webhooks, real-time UI and deployment fit together in one working system instead of in isolation. It is for individual developers and small teams building SaaS products who need a practical end-to-end implementation reference. Delivered as a digital book in PDF, ePub and MOBI with complete and chapter-by-chapter source code, exercises, cheat sheets and sample chapters sent by email.

Key features

  • Accounts and team management
  • Authentication and invitations
  • Stripe subscriptions and webhooks
  • Background jobs with Active Job
  • Solid Queue processing
  • Product email sending and receiving
  • Real-time UI with Hotwire and Turbo
  • GitHub OAuth integration
  • API access and application events
  • Performance tuning and caching
  • Pagination and encryption
  • Deployment with Kamal 2
  • Deployment with Hatchbox or Heroku
  • Error reporting setup
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