Operating Rails: what about after you deploy?
André Arko • Boulder, CO • Talk

Date: October 06, 2025
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There are a million tutorials out there showing you how to build a blog in Rails (in just 15 minutes!) and how to deploy that Rails app to some cloud provider (in just 5 minutes!), but what about after that first half-hour? When the guide says "this tutorial of course isn't production ready", what actually is production-ready? Let's talk about operating Rails apps in production.

Running a web service requires you to do so many things that aren't included in any programming books or tutorials. We need more developers able to ship services that work, rather than expecting each developer to figure out the entire list by trial and error, one at a time, by themselves. This talk covers what you need for reliable services: environments, monitoring, debugging, backups, security, and incident planning.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025