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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:

  • Other developers will work on it and need to be able to set it up, run its tests, and run it locally.

  • It will eventually have security vulnerabilities (in our code and in our ...