Docker Basics for Rails

March 22, 2021

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

About This Episode

Docker allows you to build a self-contained image with your application code and all it's dependencies. We'll setup our Dockerfile for the Rails app and Docker Compose yml for any other services we might need like Postgres or Redis.

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