Let's use Docker to help us build software! If you are new to the world of containers then I hope you will find this tutorial insightful. We will explore setting up a new project and creating a docker-compose.yml file, then will add services like PostgreSQL and Redis, and finally run and develop our new application in docker.

I have been developing Ruby on Rails apps in Docker for several years now. I couldn't imagine not using Docker for serving my projects at this point! See how I build docker images meant to be run in production for my Ruby on Rails projects.

I spent some time over the weekend getting familiar with RSpec. Gonna brain dump (with just a little bit of structure) the process and what I did and learned. To start I set up in a new rails project and kinda tweaked it into a place where I can be productive.

I was asked recently if I could explain the difference between length, size, and count for ActiveRecord models in Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately I had no answer. But I wanted to really understand so I dug into the API docs.

Ruby on Rails is quickly becoming my framework of choice for my personal websites and projects. It's a pleasure to work with and has been easy to learn. But no framework is without its challenges. One of those challenges is of course deploying the app to a server. There are a lot of options for hosting and deploying a Rails app. But, I like to run my own servers which means I have to also take care of deploying to those servers. I'd prefer to be deploying images to AWS ECS but I don't need that kind of infrastructure for my personal website. It's just a blog it can suffer seconds of downtime when I deploy updates. So my approach these days is to use Ansible to handle the deploy steps.

Create a systemd service to run your rails app server.