Ruby on Rails 8.0 Released, Introduces Kamal 2 for Improved Deployments
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Recently, Ruby on Rails introduced Version 8, introducing updates aimed at simplifying deployment, enhancing performance, and reducing dependencies.
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner & CTO of 37signals announced the major enhancements in a blog post. Rails 8 includes Kamal 2, a deployment tool that allows developers to deploy applications to cloud VMs or on-premises servers with lesser effort. With just a single kamal setup command, developers can configure servers for production quickly. This feature uses a Dockerfile that produces production-ready container images, eliminating the need for additional web servers like Nginx.
The Dockerfile includes Thruster, a new proxy for X-Sendfile acceleration, asset caching, and compression. This further makes Rails containers internet-ready out of the box.
