Ruby on Rails

How To Use PostgreSQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on macOS — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use PostgreSQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on macOS

When using the Ruby on Rails web framework, the PostgreSQL database could be a robust and flexible choice for your application. In this tutorial, you will set up a Ruby on Rails development environment connected to a PostgreSQL database on a local macOS machine. You will install and configure PostgreSQL, and then test your setup by creating a Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database server.

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How To Install Rails and nginx with Passenger on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Rails and nginx with Passenger on Ubuntu

This tutorial explains how to install Ruby, how to install any required dependancies, how to install Ruby Gems, how to install Rails, how to install Phusion Passenger, and how to use Passenger to install nginx. Passenger is an app server that allows you to deploy your rails application in production. This tutorial describes how to run Rails with nginx using passenger.

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How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on Ubuntu 14.04

Ruby on Rails is an extremely popular open-source web framework that provides a great way to write web applications with Ruby. This tutorial will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 14.04, using rbenv. This will provide you with a solid environment for…

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Scaling Ruby on Rails: Setting Up A Dedicated MySQL Server (part 2) — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

Scaling Ruby on Rails: Setting Up A Dedicated MySQL Server (part 2)

In this second part of our Scaling-Rails the cloud provider article series, we are going to see how to create a droplet to host the database layer, for application servers to connect-to and work-with. Our aim here is to minimize the chances of letting a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) emerge as a possible culprit of downtime (or loss), by distinctively delegating one single task per server.

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How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on macOS — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Ruby on Rails with rbenv on macOS

In this tutorial, you will use rbenv to install and set up Ruby on Rails on your local macOS machine. Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular application stacks for developers looking to create sites and web apps. One way to install Ruby and Rails is with the command-line tool rbenv. Using rbenv will provide you with a well-controlled and robust environment for developing your Ruby on Rails applications, allowing you to easily switch the version of Ruby for your entire team when needed.

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