Rails with SQLite: Deployment Challenges and Production Considerations
By
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Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
Summary
This article discusses the author's experience building a Rails application using SQLite instead of traditional database services, highlighting the differences, challenges, and potential pitfalls when using SQLite in production environments. The author shares insights from deploying a side project with Rails 8's new features like Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, along with Litestack, and warns about unexpected ways these simplified setups can lead to outages despite the author's 20 years of Rails deployment experience.
Key quotes
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It's great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different
Based on what happened when I built a new side project in Rails on SQLite, we'll cover what's different, what's new, and several ways that
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