Docker Rails Webapp Nginx

Ready-to-use Docker boilerplate for a Ruby on Rails API server and a static web frontend served by NGINX. The Rails API server is configured to use PostgreSQL database. The web frontend can built using modern JS frameworks like Svelte, React or Vue.

Quick Start

Update APP_NAME and other variables as required in .env.example file and then run:

sh ./bootstrap.sh

The script will do the following:

• create a .env file from .env.example
• create new rails api app
• move the master.key to .env
• start rails server at http://localhost:3000
• start web server at http://localhost:80

You can later start the servers simply using:

docker-compose up

Folder Structure

.
├── client_web     # web frontend src code
│   └── build      # static build output to be served by nginx
├── nginx          # nginx config files
└── server         # rails api server

Note

Tested on macOS. In linux, docker creates files with root user. So, you may need to change the ownership of the files created by docker. If not, this can cause an error when the bootstrap.sh tries to shred the master.key file.