Rails in Practice

Create a Staging Environment in Rails and Deploy with Kamal

A staging environment is a safe replica of production where you can test features before going live. In this post, we'll create a staging environment for the blog and deploy to it with Kamal. It also covers the basics of Rails environments and shows how to configure Kamal for staging deployments.

Rails in Practice 8 min read

Let's Configure a PostgreSQL Database Server for the Blog

In this post, I'll provision and configure the staging infrastructure for my blog, which is a Rails application. This includes installing and setting up a PostgreSQL database server, allowing connections only from the Rails application server, and locking it down by disabling direct public access.

Rails in Practice 11 min read

Let's Create a New Rails Application for the Blog

This is the first post in the series where I'm building my blog in Ruby on Rails. I'll create a new Rails application and we'll walk through some of the important files and directories in a fresh Rails project. By the end of this post, we'll have a basic app up and running in the browser.

Rails in Practice 7 min read

I am Rebuilding this Blog with Rails

After three years on Ghost, I'm rebuilding this blog from scratch with Ruby on Rails. In a new series, I'll document the journey of building a production Rails application, from development to deployment. Follow along as I build the new home for Write Software, Well.

Rails in Practice 4 min read