The first video on the Ruby&Beyond YouTube channel. In this episode, I explore Basecamp’s Kamal codebase. Since this is the first video on the channel, I try to explain why I decided to start it, what motivates me, and what I plan to record in the future.
For many years Nginx has been a default solution to serve as a reverse proxy for Rails applications. However, with the release of Kamal, the Rails community opened Traefik as a new reverse proxy solution. Within my 15 years of experience with Rails, I created an almost perfect configuration for Nginx that migrated through all my projects. With Traefik, I had to start from scratch.
Right after my first try of Kamal (MRSK) in the spring of 2023, I understood that an ideal use case would be running it as a GitHub Action. Almost a year passed, and my 30-line action has grown and become full-featured, configurable, and reusable. In this post, I will share the evolution of the action and the lessons learned.
As technology evolves and our understanding of scalable and maintainable code deepens, optimizing software architecture becomes paramount. In the realm of Ruby programming, the concept of Service Objects has long been a cornerstone in managing complex business logic. A couple of days ago, I got an email from OneTribe’s AppSignal that included information about the issue that I already have seen several times and didn’t have enough time and willingness to work on it.
On October 5th, Rails 7.1 has been released. In this article, I will show you how I upgraded one of our projects, OneTribe (https://onetribe.team/), to the new major release within one day of my holidays.
