Creating a Rails App
Understand how to create a Rails app optimized for sustainability. Learn key setup steps including configuring Postgres, managing developer workflows, automating testing and security checks, and preparing the app for production deployment.
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The following command is pretty powerful. It immediately creates a ready-to-go Rails application but doesn’t completely set us up for sustainable development.
rails new
We know a few things about our app right now:
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Other developers will work on it and need to be able to set it up, run its tests, and run it locally.
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It will eventually have security vulnerabilities (in our code and in our dependencies).
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It will be deployed into production via a continuous integration pipeline and require operational observability.
Given the assumptions we listed in the first chapter, we are also quite confident that the app will get more complex ...