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Rails for everything

Published: 2025-01-01 After spending part of my holiday building and deploying a new Rails 8 application, It's clearer than ever that Rails is awesome, and it's especially great for small projects with a single developer. Guide is good The latest Getting Started with Rails guide is really excellent.

Your app will have authentication, caching, rich text, continuous integration, and a database. SQlite is a great tool, but its focus on backwards compatibility means that it wasn't ideal for a production database out of the box. Aside from it being really cool to have CI with no effort, 2000 minutes of run time is a lot for solo developer!

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