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When we started Classpro, we had to build up our working development environment. We started using SVN as revision control for source code. SVN has the advantage that it's much simple to learn especially with TortoiseSVN GUI.

Why Switch to Git?

Fast-forward 4 months: we’re still just 3 developers, so our needs are fairly minimal. However, this seemed like a good time to make the switch for a few reasons:

Decentralized: Imagine you are a developer, you develop on your laptop and you want to have source control so that you can go back to previous version. With Subversion, you have a Problem: The SVN Repository may be in a location you can't reach (in your company, and you don't have internet at the moment), you cannot commit. If you want to make a copy of your code, you have to literally copy/paste it. With Git, you do not have this problem. Your local copy is a repository, and you can commit to it and get all benefits of source control. When you regain connectivity to the main repository, you can commit against it.

Branching: We had 5 different branches (master, development, deepak_repo, vijay_repo and jayesh_repo). We had horrible flashbacks of late nights trying to merge an SVN branch back into master trunk. In less words: SVN merging sucks. In Git, Branches are lightweight and merging is easy, and I mean really easy.

Fear: Having all of our revision history and development code on one machine, especially on local machine, is terrifying.

Where Git really shines is branching and working with other people.

Conclusion

Though git is much harder to learn than SVN, since it has more concepts, commands and sometimes more confusing for a starter. What is a remote? and How to properly set up the initial repository? are two questions that come up at the beginning, especially compared to SVN's simple "svnadmin create", Git's "git init" can take the parameters --bare and --shared which seems to be the "proper" way to set up a centralized repository. There are reasons for this, but it adds complexity. But once you get it all, it is simple to use.

Keeping track of what is happening in your coaching classes shouldn’t be a burden.

With Classpro Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of all important events such as Lectures and Test all in one place.

On the application level, Classpro.in provides each user with a email and password that is immediately encrypted when you sign up. Additionally, all access within Classpro.in is permission based.

There are 3 types of users

- Admin

  Admin is the account owner. The person signed up in classpro is assigned with "admin" role.

- Branch Admin

  Admin can assign full access to a user for a branch/center by giving him "Branch Admin" role. This user has all access to data for the branch he is assigned.

- Staff

"New financial year is starting and all the old batches, lectures, courses are completed. what do with those data?"

No need to worry. Instead of deleting old record, now you can archive your old data, so that thay won't appear in your new data. 

This will help you to focus on the current students, admissions, lectures and tests.

What if I needed my old data to appear again?

We protect your data

Classpro.in utilizes some of the most advanced technologies when storing and securing your information. Classpro.in is hosted in a world-class secure server environment (hosted and professionally managed by Linode , a recognized leader in high-end VPS hosting). We backup data daily to our off-site servers so you can be assured that nothing will be lost! We are 100% committed to security and investing in the best technology and infrastructure.

Role based Access

On the application level, Classpro.in provides each user with a unique username and password that is immediately encrypted when you sign up. Additionally, all access within Classpro.in is permission based - there are 3 types of users (admin, branch admin and staff) and 3 types of permission levels for student records, admissions, reports and settings. Users can only access information that they have been given permission to access.

Customer Happiness

On the support front we are committed to not just Customer Satisfaction, but Customer Happiness. We are always there to service your need over telephone, email and chat service 24x7.

Always Available

Classpro was started as an internal application that classpro team put together in a month to manage our own computer coaching classes in Mumbai. What we needed was a simple and affordable solution.

One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Classpro.

For Classpro, We opted for promising new technologies that would deliver an awesome experience. This is pretty far from any of the work we’ve done before, so from a technical perspective Classpro has been an adventure.

The Server

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

Nginx with Phusion Passenger

The Client

Jquery (DOM manipulation)

HTML5

Handlebars (templating language)