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Ben has officially launched his course Refactoring Rails. He is pleased with his choice of back-end tools including Gumroad for fulfillment. Ben shares his course launch metrics including email success rate, sales numbers and revenue. Early feedback has been positive and the Ruby community has been very supportive. He also discusses his expectations and take away lessons from the overall launch. Ben will be continuing his Ruby tour in the coming weeks.

Derrick announces Drip\\u2019s new project teased last episode: a visual email editor. Due to Drip\\u2019s widening customer base, there is an increased demand for visual and polished marketing emails. Their designer has been working on mockups and the team is analyzing the current tools available and have some great ideas for improving usability. Drip is still looking for a front-end engineer with Elm experience to help build the tool.

Today\\u2019s Topics Include:

Refactoring Rails launch and email strategy
\\nBen\\u2019s launch metrics
\\nRuby speaking tour
\\nThe new visual email editor project at Drip
\\nBuilding out a new project
\\nLearning new skills as a developer
\\nChoosing programming languages
\\nDerrick\\u2019s review of Microsoft\\u2019s Visual Studio Code Editor

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Links and resources:

Gumroad
\\nHeroku
\\nElm
\\n"Teaching Elm to Beginners" by Richard Feldman
\\nMicrosoft\\u2019s Visual Studio Code Editor
\\nRefactoringRails.io
\\nDrip