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Sidekiq on Production

#60 Dec 25, 2016 free

Sidekiq is a Ruby Background Processor that manages its queue with a Redis service. Learn to deploy Sidekiq to your production environment.

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Intro to Docker on Windows

#72 Mar 19, 2017 free

Developing a Ruby on Rails application on Windows can be difficult, but doesn't have to be with Docker. Learn how to use Docker to create isolated containers and get them to talk with the Rails app and passed through to the local computer.

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Production Deployment on Ubuntu

#31 May 30, 2016 free

A guide to configure your Ubuntu installation and deploy a Ruby on Rails application. Lock down the settings to prevent unwanted access.

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Managing Servers with Ansible

#66 Feb 5, 2017 free

A look into the Drifting Ruby network architecture and how I manage deployments with Ansible.

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Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

#106 Nov 19, 2017 pro

We’re going to get a Ruby on Rails application running on a staging environment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The Rails app will be connected to a MySQL database instance.

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Additional Dependencies in Beanstalk

#107 Nov 26, 2017 pro

Sometimes your AWS Beanstalk environment may require configuration changes from your app to properly deploy and get everything working.

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Deploying to Amazon Linux 2

#285 Feb 28, 2021 pro

I recently upgraded Drifting Ruby's site from Ruby 2.6 to Ruby 2.7 as part of some general maintenance. The Beanstalk instance was using an older version of Amazon Linux. During the upgrade process, I discovered that it wasn't a simple transition. In this episode, we look at the discovery path and how to successfully deploy your Ruby on Rails application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon Linux 2 and Ruby 2.7.

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AWS Security Groups and Deploying Rails 6 to Beanstalk

#203 Aug 18, 2019 pro

Back in Episode #106, we configured and deployed to a very simple AWS Beanstalk environment. However, in this episode, we take things a bit further and explore security groups, an existing database and redis service. Also, there are a few changes that we have to do in order to get Rails 6 working within Beanstalk.

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Creating Health Checks

#208 Sep 22, 2019 pro

Health Checks are an important part of monitoring an application's health. However, a simple status response may not be sufficient. In this episode, we look at creating a health check which monitors some dependencies of a Rails application.

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Deploying to Render

#344 Apr 10, 2022 pro

Heroku is not the only PaaS anymore and there are some cheaper alternatives now-a-days. In this episode, we explore deploying a Ruby on Rails 7 application to Render.

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