Drifting Ruby

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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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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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 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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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.