Rails-docker-box, or developing Rails within a dockerized environment

• rails-dev-box

  1 2,053 4.7 Shell

  A virtual machine for Ruby on Rails core development

  

Luckily, the Rails team (and Xavier Noria in particular) found a way to solve this problem—rails-dev-box. Rails Dev Box is a Vagrant configuration, which allows you to spin up a virtual machine with everything you need inside. Cool, right?

• rails

  1 0 0.0 Ruby

  Ruby on Rails (by palkan)

Since I mostly dealt with Active Record and Action Cable, my Docker configuration wasn't complete. Also, back in the days, the Rails codebase wasn't container-friendly (e.g., some tests relied on a Redis or PostgreSQL instance running on the same machine). Thus, I just kept my setup around (in a few commits], and haven't tried to promote to the upstream or whatever.

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• Ruby on Rails

  467 54,865 10.0 Ruby

  Ruby on Rails

  

Lately, I've been working a new PR to Action Cable and had to re-visit my configuration (since many things have changed in the last year). I liked what I got in the end, so I decided to share it with the community.

• dip

  7 1,216 7.2 Ruby

  The dip is a CLI dev–tool that provides native-like interaction with a Dockerized application.

So, I went the old-fashioned way and added Dip to the mix. Now I can run all the familiar commands (bundle, rake, etc.) from my host system (with a dip prefix) without thinking about all the docker-compose --rm --it bla-bla. Moreover, I can cd into a subfolder (say, actioncable), and execute commands from there just like on a host machine:

• Vagrant

  115 25,852 9.0 Ruby

  Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  

Luckily, the Rails team (and Xavier Noria in particular) found a way to solve this problem—rails-dev-box. Rails Dev Box is a Vagrant configuration, which allows you to spin up a virtual machine with everything you need inside. Cool, right?

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