alahmdi / docked

Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development

Docked Rails

Setting up Rails for the first time with all the dependencies necessary can be daunting for beginners. Docked Rails uses a Rails CLI Docker image to make it much easier, requiring only Docker to be installed.

Getting started

First install Docker (and WSL on Windows). Then copy'n'paste into your terminal:

docker volume create ruby-bundle-cache
alias rails='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle ghcr.io/rails/cli'
alias rails-server='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/rails/cli server -b 0.0.0.0'
alias rails-dev='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle -p 3000:3000 --entrypoint bin/dev ghcr.io/rails/cli'
alias bundle='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle --entrypoint bundle ghcr.io/rails/cli'
alias rake='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle --entrypoint rake ghcr.io/rails/cli'
alias yarn='docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/rails -v ruby-bundle-cache:/bundle --entrypoint yarn ghcr.io/rails/cli'

Then create your Rails app:

rails new weblog
cd weblog
rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text
rails db:migrate
rails-server

That's it! You're running Rails on http://localhost:3000/posts.