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Slides from Deloying and Scaling a Rails Application with Docker

posted on March 16 2015

Rails Docker Docker Swarm Docker Compose Consul

At a recent Norwich Ruby User Group (NRUG) meetup I presented on how to create a Docker cluster using Swarm and Consul, then how to automate container registration with Registrator, and finally how to deploy your application stack using Docker Compose

Using Docker and Fig for a Rails Development Environment

posted on January 09 2015

Rails Docker Development Fig

I've previously posted a short guide on creating a Docker container to run a Rails application. This covered the basics of creating a Dockerfile and starting a container but to use Docker as part of your development environment you need to do a little...

Developing Rails Applications with Docker

posted on November 11 2014

Docker Rails

Until recently I used Chef to configure and maintain servers which worked well enough but this was time consuming to run, and to recreate servers locally using virtual machines wasn't ideal on larger projects. Recently I've been setting up some projects...

Upgrading Sunspot
from 2.0.0 to 2.1.x

posted on October 27 2014

Rails Development Solr Sunspot

I recently updated Sunspot from 2.0.0 to 2.1.1 on an old project and was hit by an unexpected connection error. Locally I was using the bundled Solr server and everything was fine, however in staging and production Solr is running on separate servers...