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Kyle Boe

If you're a fan of TL;DR's, as Nate linked to, check out Railsdock.

Nate and I have been hard at work demystifying all things Docker so feel free to post comments/questions/PR's and we'll do what we can to shed light on the subject.

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A tool for generating Ruby on Rails development environment Docker configuration

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A command line tool for Dockerizing your Rails development environment.

Prerequisite

The configuration generated by this gem depends on Docker Desktop. Make sure it is installed before continuing.

Installation

Install the gem:

$ gem install railsdock

Or add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'railsdock', require: false, group: :development

Then run:

$ bundle

Usage

Navigate to your project directory:

$ cd /path/to/my/app

Then run:

$ railsdock install

The gem will then walk you through configuring Docker by asking questions about your environment.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle