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Gain insights into Docker architecture, images, and containers. Delve into Docker Compose, JS integration, and production readiness. Master deploying, clustering, and scaling Rails apps using Docker tools.

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This course is your field manual for building Rails applications with Docker. 

To kick things off, you’ll start by learning the basics of Docker like architecture, images, and containers. You will then be introduced to Docker Compose and use it to build up to a multiservice application with Redis.

You will then work to get your Dockerized setup to play nice with JavaScript, using both the standard asset pipeline and webpacker, Rails’ newest approach for integrating modern JavaScript front ends.

Lastly, you will learn how to prepare your Rails app for production. Once ready, using Docker’s own tools, you will provision machines, create a cluster, deploy the app, and scale the app’s resources to meet its changing needs.

By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently use Docker in any of your further projects.

Docker for Rails Developers

# Ways to run our Rails app

Unfortunately, we cannot start a Rails server with just the `ruby:2.7` image. Rails has a few more requirements like JavaScript interpreter (Node.js) to help with the asset pipeline and gem dependencies. One way is to run Bash inside a container based on the `ruby:2.7` image, and install what we need from there. However, running the commands manually is not easily repeatable. 

Another way to get a container is to run Rails by taking that same set of commands needed to install Rails’ requirements and chain them together into a long, compound docker run command. The **compound** `docker run` allows you to start a container and run a single command in `docker run` by using the bash command’s 
`-c` option. The `-c` option starts a Bash shell and immediately executes 
whatever you pass in as a string. This lets you do the following: 
```text
$ docker run <options> [image:version] \ 
bash -c "command1 && command2 && command3..."
``` 
However, not only would the command be huge, ugly, and hard to remember, but worst of all, it would be slow. The setup instructions would have to be run from scratch every time, including installing Node.js or our gem dependencies. We do not want to wait minutes just to start a Rails server. 


## So what’s the real solution? 
We want to be able to run containers based on a preconfigured state that has everything needed in order to run Rails. What we really want is a **factory** for creating these perfect Rails server containers.  And building an image is a perfect fit for our requirements.


Find the best option to build our Rails app.

How Do We Run Our Rails App?

Introduction

A Brave New World

Running a Rails App in a Container

Fine-Tuning Our Rails Image

Describing Our App Declaratively with Docker Compose

Beyond the App: Adding Redis

Docker for Rails Developer—Exam 1

Adding a Database: Postgres

Playing Nice with JavaScript

Testing in a Dockerized Environment

Advanced Gem Management

Some Minor Irritations

Docker for Rails Developer—Exam 2

The Production Landscape

Preparing for Production

A Production-Like Playground

Deploying to the Cloud

Docker for Rails Developer - Exam 3

Closing Thoughts and Next Steps

APPENDIX

How Do We Run Our Rails App?

Ways to run our Rails app