Deploy Rails to Scaleway

Steps

1. 1

   Create a Scaleway API token

   In the Scaleway console, open IAM → API keys and generate a new API key. Railyard needs the access key and secret key, plus your project ID. Paste it into Railyard and tick Save it to the team, so it's reused for every server after this one.

2. 2

   Add a Scaleway server

   In Railyard, open Servers, then Add a server, then Create on your cloud, and pick Scaleway, a region and a size. Railyard preselects DEV1-S (1 vCPU, 2 GB of memory). It creates the server in your Scaleway account and finishes setup in about two minutes.

3. 3

   Deploy your Rails repository

   Paste the GitHub link. Railyard reads the repository, detects Rails and fills in the build, the port, the release command, workers and Postgres, MySQL and Redis.

4. 4

   Go live on HTTPS

   Railyard builds your app, runs the release command, health-checks the new version and moves traffic only when it answers. Add your domain and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.

What Railyard sets up for Rails

• bin/rails db:prepare runs before every release.
• pg becomes Postgres, mysql2 or trilogy becomes MySQL, and redis or sidekiq becomes Redis.
• Sidekiq, Solid Queue, GoodJob, Resque and Delayed Job are offered as workers from your Gemfile.lock.
• Rails 8 cache, queue and cable databases each get their own connection string.
• Active Storage on disk gets a persistent volume, and SECRET_KEY_BASE is generated once.

Scaleway regions

Scaleway is a French cloud provider — every region above is in the EU by default.

• Paris
• Amsterdam
• Warsaw
• Milan

Questions