Real-emails.com Series #2 – Progress update

I'm late!

First, Disney was fantastic 😁

But unfortunately, I'm late on my planned schedule!
Kinda like Alice in Wonderland’s White Rabbit 🐰

Two reasons for this:

• Starting up the Rails project took me more time than I expected

• I went down into a few rabbit holes, but I'm getting better at noticing and pulling myself out of them!

• I did not find as much time as I thought I would on Sunday

Here's my current status:

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• Friday:

  • ✅ Project setup

    • Rails project with Turbo/Stimulus and Phlex

    • 🐰 Lots of boilerplate to setup for Phlex. I'll need to build myself a reusable lib to kick things off faster

    • 🐰 Spent too much time on UI/design on top of that

  • ✅ User registration & authentication

    • Using Devise + devise-passwordless

      • 🐰 devise-passwordless’ implementation isn't in line with what I had in mind.
        Even though I'm not a huge fan of them, the beauty of Magic Links is that you don't have to worry about the user being already registered: just show an email field, create a new user if needed and shoot the email link.
        Unfortunately, the gem did not merge sign-up and sign-in this way, so I had to override their sessions controller.

    • Some minor fine-tuning remains

  • ❌ API service with API key authentication

  • ❌ Endpoints specifications

• Sunday:

  • ❌ Blocklist matching implementation

  • ❌ Dynamic checks & results caching

• Monday:

  • ❌ Payment setup & implementation

• Tuesday:

  • ❌ Server provisioning

  • ❌ real-emails.com domain configuration

  • ❌ Deployment preparation

• Wednesday:

  • ❌ Production deployment

  • ❌ Live tests

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Ouch! That's a lot of red 🙈

Hopefully, I will be able to accelerate now that I have the foundations in place.
For the moment, I think I can still meet Wednesday’s deadline.

I would probably shift it to Friday if I were on a freelance contract. 😅

Anyway, here's what it looks like at the moment:

As I wrote above, some fine-tuning is still needed on the login flow. Right now, it redirects to the homepage after sending the email, which isn't great.

It should be done quickly, and then I can move on to the core part: the API.

Stay tuned :)