Rails

More details about how I use Ruby on Rails to build my products.

Infrastructure

• Digital Ocean - cloud hosting
• GitHub - source code hosting and CI/CD
• Kamal - containerized deployment tool
• Dependabot - dependency management
• Uptime Robot - uptime monitoring
• Cloudflare - registering and managing domains
• Cloudflare R2 - object storage
• Postmark - sending emails for my sites

Deployment

I use Github Actions to continuously deploy my apps with Kamal to my Digital Ocean servers.

I use Digital Ocean’s managed PostgreSQL databases for my apps.

I previously used Render for hosting. I still think it’s a good option for most developers, but it gets expensive if you have a lot of smaller apps. Whereas with Digital Ocean I can host them all on a single server.

Background Jobs

I use GoodJob for background jobs. I previously used Sidekiq, but I had some problems with losing jobs because of Redis. The Enterprise plan became too expensive.

Rubygems

• rails – I try to stick to the latest stable version of Rails
• authentication-zero
• aws-sdk-s3 – for use with Cloudflare R2
• blazer
• bugsnag
• good_job
• http
• view_component
• tailwindcss-rails
• heroicons
• turbo-rails
• kamal
• thruster
• imgproxy
• imgproxy-rails
• omniauth
• pg
• pay
• stripe
• pagy
• postmark-rails
• ruby-openai
• sitemap_generator
• stimulus-rails
• strong_migrations