Hi,
I’m missing a documentation, when i want to go into production. The documentation for the normal developing of an app is good, but when I want to go into production, I feel totally lost.
First thing, I didn’t know, what is the best way, to publish an app online, which provider I should use and how to setup the server.
The next thing was, that the configuration for the production environment is forcing SSL and I didn’t know anything about SSL. So I was getting a self-hosted server, was creating a ssl certificate but didn’t know, how to give it to Puma. When I was searching in the internet, how I can do it, somebody told on StackOverflow, that puma is not concepted for public use and instead you should use a reverse proxy like Nginx, which communicates with puma and do the ssl thing. So I had to learn what Nginx is, how the setup and to use it.
When I finally had everything setup, i wanted to start my server in production, but got errors.
I didn’t know, that I have to create the production database extra and that the normal db:create is only creating the databases for the test and development environment. After that, I had the next error, that the application.css file is missing and I didn’t understand what was happening, because i tested the production environment first, with a fresh ruby on rails app. I found something in StackOverflow, that you have to start manually the compiling of the assets files, so that the assets files are compiled to the public-folder with the command:
RAILS_ENV=production rails assets:precompile
So it would be very cool, if you would have a little help from the documentation, how to go into production.
The steps described in the reply of your question are good too.
I’m already near to the end, to have my app running as a production app. But you are a another example, that you would like to have more information for this.