I took a side project from zero to a live HTTPS app with auth, transactional email, and catch-all inbox forwarding. I did it while pair programming with Cursor and using the current Rails and deployment ecosystem. Here’s every step that got me there.

I recently bought all the books from this tweet. Here are my affiliate links to them. I just finished Sapiens and it was awesome!

I have recently started a new Ruby on Rails project which I hope will exist for a very long time. I decided, after getting burned in the past regarding this issue, to ensure the application supports emojis in all text fields. Here is the stack:

• Ruby on Rails 5.2.0
• Ruby 2.3.1
• Elastic Beanstalk (Passenger with Ruby 2.3 running on 64bit Amazon Linux/2.7.2)
• Aurora MySQL 5.6.10a

I will quickly describe the most important tools I use when using a computer. I use MacOS (Sierra, right now), but the lessons apply to all operating systems.