Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_18

18. Deploying Your Rails Applications

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

(1)

Bowling Green, KY, USA

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Gardendale, AL, USA

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Hollywood, FL, USA

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FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

At some point, you may decide it’s time to share your Rails application with the world. Though Rails offers a first-class local development environment, it’s not feasible to host your public-facing web application from your development environment; besides potentially violating your residential Internet service’s terms of service, you’d have to deal with dynamic IP addresses, opening your firewall ...