Comments on: How to build a SaaS Rails site in one hour http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/ Speculations on Web Development by Benjamin Curtis Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Philip http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/#comment-1490 Philip Fri, 09 May 2008 19:22:08 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=126#comment-1490 Ben; I get where the open sourcers are coming from. But I also have experienced the difference between stuff that is given away (substruct) and stuff that isn't (shopify). I'm glad you are charging for it. It gives buyers a reason to be upset if it doesn't work, and that will cause you to deliver a good product. Sail on. Phil Ben;

I get where the open sourcers are coming from. But I also have experienced the difference between stuff that is given away (substruct) and stuff that isn’t (shopify).

I’m glad you are charging for it. It gives buyers a reason to be upset if it doesn’t work, and that will cause you to deliver a good product.

Sail on.

Phil

]]> By: Ben http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/#comment-1478 Ben Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:04:48 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=126#comment-1478 Kt, I understand where you're coming from. However, this code is interesting <strong>only</strong> to developers who will be using it for a commercial purpose, so it's a little different audience than restful_authentication, for example. Kt, I understand where you’re coming from. However, this code is interesting only to developers who will be using it for a commercial purpose, so it’s a little different audience than restful_authentication, for example.

]]> By: Kt http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/#comment-1477 Kt Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:37:13 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=126#comment-1477 Ben, I know who you are, I know you are an active contributor to the Rails community and I applaud those contributions. But what I'm really trying to drive at is: this will hopefully not start a trend with the Ruby/Rails community in moving toward your "SaaS Software" paradigm. Simple, what if restful_authentication wasn't open sourced, and was offered as a SaaS software? This would hurt the Rails community indirectly, or any Open source community. Ben,

I know who you are, I know you are an active contributor to the Rails community and I applaud those contributions. But what I’m really trying to drive at is: this will hopefully not start a trend with the Ruby/Rails community in moving toward your “SaaS Software” paradigm.

Simple, what if restful_authentication wasn’t open sourced, and was offered as a SaaS software? This would hurt the Rails community indirectly, or any Open source community.

]]> By: Ben http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/#comment-1476 Ben Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:23:37 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=126#comment-1476 Kt, I think you can read through my blog, download my sample OpenID application, download my shipping code, or even just browse through the Rails plugin directory that I maintain to see that I do make contributions back to the community. Kt, I think you can read through my blog, download my sample OpenID application, download my shipping code, or even just browse through the Rails plugin directory that I maintain to see that I do make contributions back to the community.

]]> By: Kt http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/#comment-1475 Kt Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:29:15 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=126#comment-1475 I know you put in your time in getting this to work smoothly but what you are doing is selling back to the community rather than giving back to the open source community by using open source plugins/ruby gems. I know you put in your time in getting this to work smoothly but what you are doing is selling back to the community rather than giving back to the open source community by using open source plugins/ruby gems.

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