GoRails

Screencasts for Ruby on Rails developers

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I created GoRails to publicly document my commonly repeated tasks with Rails and to take a stab at selling my first product.

Chris Oliver Founder

GoRails Launches!

I launched two courses and got about one sale a week. GoRails.com had already been live as a Rails app with a few static pages for the tutorials I had previously published. To sell the two courses, I built out payments with Stripe and the course functionality to watch videos using Wistia, track your progress, etc.

GoRails - Learn Ruby on Rails with screencasts for Web Developers - GoRails

Short screencasts for developers learning Ruby on Rails. Videos to help you learn any aspect of web development.

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Preparation for Launch

It took me five months to plan, record, edit, and complete the first two courses. This took way more time than I expected because I just wasn't very comfortable recording screencasts. My daily routine was to record 15 minutes of video a day whether or not I threw away the recording later. I just needed the practice to create content I was happy with.

I created GoRails to publicly document my commonly repeated tasks with Rails and to take a stab at selling my first product.

Chris Oliver Founder