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Docker for Rails Developers: Notes for Rails 6.1, Ruby 2.7.2
I thought that there might be interest in using the book with Rails 6.1 and Ruby 2.7.2. I’ll note what I needed to do differently here.
- p. 11
rails new myapp --skip-test. Do not add the--skip-bundleflag–it causes several steps of thenewcommand to fail. (Notably,webpacker:installdoesn’t occur.) - p. 19 Update the
Dockerfileto get a newer version of Ruby, a recent version ofyarn, and set upwebpacker:FROM ruby:2.7.2 # Ensure latest packages for Yarn RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | APT_KEY_DONT_WARN_ON_DANGEROUS_USAGE=true apt-key add - RUN echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list RUN apt-get update -yqq RUN apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends nodejs yarn WORKDIR /usr/src/app COPY . . RUN bundle install RUN yarn install - p. 40 Modified
DockerfileafterThe Gemfile Caching Trick:FROM ruby:2.7.2 # Ensure latest packages for Yarn RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | APT_KEY_DONT_WARN_ON_DANGEROUS_USAGE=true apt-key add - && \ echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list && \ apt-get update -yqq && apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends \ nodejs \ yarn WORKDIR /usr/src/app COPY Gemfile* ./ RUN bundle install RUN yarn install COPY . . CMD ["bin/rails", "s", "-b", "0.0.0.0"] - p. 88 In
Rails JavaScript Front End with Webpacker, nothing needs to be done to installwebpacker, since we installed it at the beginning. (There is no issue with the version ofnode, either. In fact, running thecurlto get an “up-to-date” version ends up installing a deprecated version.) You do need to install thewebpackerReact integration, though–docker-compose run web bin/rails webpacker:install:react. - p. 96
Setting Up RSpec, grab a newer version of RSpec–gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 4.0.1'–per therspec-railsinstallation instructions. - p. 96-97 I had to
stop,build, andup -d --force-recreatethewebpack_dev_serverafter doing the same forweb, after installing RSpec. - p. 100
gem 'capybara', '~> 3.34'
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- p. 146 With Rails 6, there’s a new way to handle secrets. Instead of defining
SECRET_KEY_BASE, you’ll need to defineRAILS_MASTER_KEY.- Run
bin/rails credentials:editand save the result. This will create the value of an encryption key inconfig/master.keyand an encrypted secrets file inconfig/credentials.yml.enc. - Copy the value of the encryption key in
config/master.keyto theRAILS_MASTER_KEYenvironment variable in.env/production/web. (SECRET_KEY_BASEis obsolete–don’t define it.)
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