Erik Minkel

Erik Minkel

Deploy an app with SQLite, ActiveStorage and Kamal

SQLite as a single or small development team database for Ruby on Rails projects ended out the year as all the rage. For in-depth action in this area follow Stephen Margheim, he's doing a TON of work for the Ruby on Rails community in this realm. This article is meant

Deploy your Rails 7 app with Kamal and CI/CD

We'll run through an example utilizing the Kamal gem to deploy our Ruby on Rails application to a server with BitBucket Pipelines.

Using Kamal to host multiple Apps on a single server

Use the Kamal deployment tool to host multiple Applications on a single server instance

Run your own docker registry

I had a need arise to run a configurable instance of the docker registry to host images built for the Kamal deployment tool. In this post, I'll describe the setup of running your own instance of the docker registry. We'll utilize docker compose for this setup, as well as Traefik

Up and running with BridgetownRB and Tailwind CSS

There are a few articles highlighting how to get going with the Ruby-powered static site generator BridgetownRb. While they may have worked initially when written, for whatever reason, they throw an asset compilation error due to the webpack configuration. Below we'll install the needed Ruby gems and JavaScript packages necessary

Querying sqlite3 JSON columns in Rails

This post is an effort to provide the next developer searching for answers with some guidance on using sqlite with the JSON1 extension. When it comes to querying JSON columns in Ruby on Rails the internet didn't seem to have any applied examples. Here is some of my notes on

Rails 5.2, webpacker and vue-loader v15+

Just a quick fix for vue-loader v15+ If you're developing in Rails in 2018, you're likely using a webpack and a front end framework. This will help you get your vue-loader going from complaining about needing a special loader to compile, back to working. In your project open up /app/