Build Your First SaaS App: The Zero-to-Shipped Project

📖 Course Curriculum

• Section 1: Architecture, Tooling & Your Development Environment Free Preview

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  • 1.1 The Banking Domain: Users, Accounts & Core Rules
  • 1.2 Environment Setup: Ruby 3.3+, PostgreSQL & Essential Tooling
  • 1.3 Generating FxBank: CLI Flags, Structure & Git Hygiene
• Section 2: Domain Modeling & Database Craft Free Preview

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  • 2.1 Designing the Banking Domain: Users, Accounts & Transfers
  • 2.2 Financial Migrations: Constraints, Foreign Keys & Precision
  • 2.3 Transaction Integrity: Atomic Transfers & Concurrency Locks
  • 2.4 Seeding Realistic Banking Data: Users, Accounts & Transactions
• Section 3: Authentication, Authorization & Roles 🔒 Pro

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  • 3.1 Complete Authentication with Devise
  • 3.2 Email Verification, Confirmation Lifecycles & Custom Redirects
  • 3.3 Granular Authorization with Pundit: Protecting Accounts & Transfers
• Section 4: Rich Interactive UI with Hotwire (Turbo & Stimulus) 🔒 Pro

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  • 4.1 The HTML-over-the-Wire Architecture: Turbo Drive & Navigation
  • 4.2 Scoped Updates with Turbo Frames: Instant Transfer Modals & Inline Edits
  • 4.3 Real-Time Progression with Turbo Streams: Live Balance & Ledger Feeds
  • 4.4 Interactive Stimulus JS: Currency Formatting, Masking & Recipient Lookup
• Section 5: Media Storage, Background Workers & Transactional Email 🔒 Pro

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  • 5.1 Multi-Cloud Media Storage with Active Storage
  • 5.2 Background Workers with Solid Queue: Statement Generation & Async Auditing
  • 5.3 Transactional Communications with Action Mailer & Previews
• Section 6: Automated Testing & Quality Gates (TDD with RSpec) 🔒 Pro

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  • 6.1 The Testing Pyramid: RSpec, FactoryBot & Shoulda Matchers
  • 6.2 Model, Policy & Service Specs: Testing Financial Rules
  • 6.3 Request & System Specs: End-to-End Simulation
• Section 7: Zero-Downtime Deployment, Monitoring & Day-2 Operations 🔒 Pro

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  • 7.1 Dockerizing Rails: Multi-Stage Production Builds
  • 7.2 Deploying to Production: Kamal 2 & Render
  • 7.3 Custom Domains, SSL & Production Security Checklist
  • 7.4 Day-2 Operations: Structured Logging, Sentry & Database Backups