simpl-test's Introduction

hello-rails

This is a demo Ruby on Rails app you can deploy to Skyliner. Here's a guide to getting started:

If you have any trouble, please drop us a line at [email protected].

Differences from a stock Rails application

Depends on the lograge gem, which converts Rails's weirdly verbose logging into production-ready logging using Logstash JSON formatting.
Depends on Heroku's rails_12factor gem, which directs the logs to stdout and allows Rails to serve up static assets. (If static asset serving becomes a performance hotspot, we recommend setting up CloudFront.)
Commits secrets.yaml to source control. It pulls the production secret base from the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable, which is securely managed by Skyliner.
Adds quotes to the use of SECRET_KEY_BASE in secrets.yaml, which prevents a secret with all digits from being interpreted as a number.
Depends on puma-heroku, which borrows Heroku's recommended Puma configuration.

Follow the directions here to create an RDS instance of your preferred database.
Edit the config/database.yml file in your project and modify the production entry to look like the following:

<dev and test stuff here>

production:
  url: "<%= ENV["DATABASE_URL"] %>"

In Skyliner, go to the Setting page for your app and select the Configuration section.
Click the gear to edit the settings and enter DATABASE_URL in the key field and the database url for your database in the value field.
Select the Skyliner environment you want the setting to apply to (QA or Production).
Click Update to save your settings.
Re-deploy to the environment you are interested in.