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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this course for?

This course is for Ruby on Rails developers who have tried StimulusReflex and/or CableReady and want to take a deeper look into advanced patterns, tooling, and integration.

I will assume that you are familiar with Ruby on Rails in general, and have already built one or two StimulusJS controllers.

Throughout this course I will use the latest Rails, StimulusReflex and CableReady (6.1, 3.4 and 4.4.6 at the time of writing).

What's the course format?

This is an email course (at least during Early Access) which means you will be sent curated email lessons as they are published.

Every lesson will contain a food for thought section with complimentary exercises and impulse questions.

Likewise, every email will provide resources for further reading and an incentive to broaden your understanding and discuss with others.

After Early Access has ended, this course will still be published by a sequence of emails, but accompanied by an ebook format.

Premium customers will furthermore have access to video content and a private GitHub repo containing the example code.

What will I learn?
  • How to handle forms in StimulusReflex
  • How to use CableReady to supercharge your Import UI
  • How to use StimulusReflex in your Rails engines
  • How to use concerns/mixins to DRY up your reflexes
  • How to conceptualize and display streams (activity streams, dashboards, webhooks etc.)
  • How to properly authorize your reflex actions
  • How to implement Optimistic UIs
  • What websocket security means
  • How to implement lazy loading

Bonus content:

  • How to scale ActionCable
  • Where the boundaries between Hotwire and StimulusReflex lie, and how they collaborate to implement complex UIs
  • How to profile slow reflexes
What does Early Access mean?

During Early Access you will get updates similarly to a ~monthly newsletter. You will also receive the bonus content (more lessons, access to a private repo and discussion board, video content) for free. Once the course is complete, I will try to condense it into ebook format, which you will also have access to

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You can cancel and ask for a full refund for 28 days after purchase, but I’d love to hear your feedback in that case 🤗.

What will happen after I purchase?
During Early Access:
  • you will be sent to Gumroad for purchase (VAT may apply!)
  • make sure you add a correct Github handle if you want to be invitied to the private repo!
  • after purchasing, you will be added to the early access mailing list
  • and receive a new article approx. every month until the course is complete
  • once the bonus content is ready, you will receive that, too FOR FREE
Will I get a refund if I'm not satisfied?

During Early Access you can cancel and ask for a full refund for 28 days after purchase, but I’d love to hear your feedback in that case 🤗.

Once the product enters regular pricing, there will be a 14 day money-back guarantee.

Where is my private data stored?
I’m using Drip for email delivery and Gumroad for payment and content management. For premium customers, I’ll add you to a private GitHub repo. I don’t need any other data than your email address (and optionally your GitHub handle) and do not share it with anybody else.
I’m a newbie in StimulusReflex land. Is there another, more beginner-friendly course?
Indeed there is! Jason Charnes has put together a comprehensive introduction to StimulusReflex in his Interactive Rails with StimulusReflex course.
Is there a student discount?
Yes! Write me an email from your school/university mail address and I'll send you a personal discount coupon.

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Julian joined me as a member of the CableReady and StimulusReflex core team in 2019. He helped pioneer some of the most compelling tooling to hit the Rails ecosystem since ActionCable was introduced. He has a gift for delving deep into highly technical problems and emerging with elegant solutions. He's a major influence pushing Reactive Rails to become a viable and exciting alternative to full stack front-end. I can't imagine anyone better suited to help you level up with Reactive Rails.

Nate Hopkins
StimulusReflex Creator

Julian is part of the Stimulus Reflex ecosystem bedrock, not only a foundational member but also quick to offer support and solution suggestions!

Obie Fernandez
MagmaLabs

I’ve been working on StimulusReflex with Julian since 2019. He is an integral part of the community and has done a lot to push it forward. One of the wisest developers I have ever met, I can always trust Julian to provide great explanations to hard and nuanced problems. I have learned a lot from Julian, and I’d encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to learn from him as well.

Andrew Mason
Remote Ruby

You want to have Julian in your corner! He went to great lengths helping me with some thorny problems on more than one occasion. He brings his hard-earned experience to the table, which he gained working in the trenches for long years: no fluff, no BS, just solid, pragmatic advice. Ignore at your own peril!

Trinity Takei
railsnew.io

Julian works hard to make the StimulusReflex community successful. He's very active in the SR Discord Community, helping newbies and experienced folks alike, and pushes the community forward. He has developed Futurism and a StimulusReflex profiler and is very generous with many other open-source contributions. If this course is half as helpful as he is, it will be well worth the money.

Ricky Chilcott
Mission Met

I turn to Julian regularly with questions about the kind of Rails and Stimulus problems that are new and unfamiliar territory for me. He's always got the answer, or some new idea that helps me get to the answer. It's always great having his knowledge and experience close by.

Fritz Meissner
Prodigy Finance

Content and Pricing

Free

$0

Contains 2 sample lessons

  • Forms

  • Imports

Standard

$99 $149

Everything from Free, plus:

  • Forms

  • Imports

  • Optimistic UI

  • Concerns

  • Composable UI

  • State Machines

  • Security

  • Streams

  • Engines

  • Authorization

  • Lazy Loading

Premium

$99 $199

Everything from Standard, plus:

  • Forms

  • Imports

  • Optimistic UI

  • Concerns

  • Composable UI

  • State Machines

  • Security

  • Streams

  • Engines

  • Authorization

  • Lazy Loading

  • Scaling ActionCable

  • SR and Hotwire/Turbo

  • Profiling

  • Private Repo and Discussion Forum

  • Video Content

Who's teaching this?

  • Julian Rubisch

    StimulusReflex Core Team

    In late 2019, after having road tested several back- and frontend frameworks, I stumbled upon a relatively young project that promised to simplify Rails frontend development by reviving the HTML-over-the-wire approach using Websockets.

    Fast forward one year, and I’m on the StimulusReflex core team. Needless to say in these times, and probably a faint anecdote in a few years, the Corona pandemic had the paradoxical effect - by requiring social distancing in the immediate community - of bringing people on opposite ends of the world closer together.

    It so happened that while I was increasingly working alone and in need of a comprehensive and productive full stack solution, I started contributing to and polishing StimulusReflex and CableReady together with a bunch of fellow enthusiasts.

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