Docker Rails development environment

Docker based Rails development environment for macOS

Depends on docker-sync to share source code between host and containers, which is the most performant way currently

Installation

Docker configuration files

Copy Docker configuration files into you project directory

Copy them manually or:

• Clone this repository into directory next to the directory of your project
• cd into your project directory
• Run ../docker-rails-development/install

Update configuration files to fit your project

• Update Ruby version at the first lines of *.docker files

Make sure dependencies are installed

• Docker for Mac
• docker-sync for fast access to local code from containers

Prepare the environment

When installing for existing application

• Make sure all the required gems (such as Spring and Sidekiq, for example) are in the Gemfile, then run:

  docker-sync start
  docker-compose run --rm spring bundle install

When creating a new application

Run one of the following commands to generate a new Rails application. Arguments are passed to the call of the rails new command. Customize them as needed.

# Use current directory name as application name by default
../docker-rails-development/rails-new --database=postgresql --skip-git --skip-test

Or

../docker-rails-development/rails-new custom_app_name --database=postgresql --skip-git --skip-test

You can also refer to the help:

../docker-rails-development/rails-new --help

Files and directories to add to .gitignore

# Docker
/.docker-sync/
/config/solargraph_hints.rb