Preface to the Rails 8 Edition
Rails 7.2 was released in August of 2024. Rails 8.0 rc1 was released in October. As such, there are few changes to the core in this edition. The biggest focus of this release is to make your application easier to deploy without requiring a full staff of DevOps engineers.
Chapter 17, Task L: Deployment and Production has been rewritten to reflect this. The introduction to Dockerfiles is still there, but the story continues on to show how to deploy your application to a cloud provider with a single command. And it continues further to show how to back up your data and send your logs to a service where they can be searched.
The biggest non-deployment related change is the introduction of a basic authentication ...
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