Ever hoped for an affordable self-hosting without all the work? You might be in luck! After Stripe subscriptions and Framer-inspired blogging Business Class is getting its final piece of the puzzle.
Kamal deployments
Kamal is the new Capistrano for the container era. A simple tool you can understand in a day or two. Business Class takes advantage of this and comes with a complete single-server configuration and excellent docs to get you started.
Here’s how you to deploy a brand new Business Class application:
$ mkdir ~/my_app
$ tar -xf ~/Downloads/template.tar -C ~/my_app
$ bundle install
$ bin/replace domainplaceholder.com ...
$ bin/replace 170.64.149.226 ...
$ bin/replace reponame ...
$ bin/generate_dotenv
$ ./bin/provision
$ kamal setup
You only really need a virtual private server, domain name, and access to a Docker repository.
Most of the other things are done for you, including the generation of database passwords. You don’t even have to manually open config/deploy.yml file.
And the best part? The provisioning takes care about replacing root with a regular user, setting up a firewall, creating a swap space, or the right access rights for /storage volume.
PaaS deployments
PaaS is still a number one choice of how developers deploy today. Business Class documentation have tutorials on getting started with Fly.io and Render since the very beggining. I intent to improve these guides so they are even better for anyone running Rails in production. But just maybe, give Kamal a try. I made it as easy as I could. And it’s always good to have a choice.
New website
Business Class is also getting a new website. Still half-baked, but already better. Have a look.
