How to Deploy Rails to Render Discussion

Great video, thanks Collin!

Thank you, sir!

Love this info, I'm so close to deploying successfully. All but the web container. I keep getting ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor::InvalidMessage, ArgumentError: key must be 16 bytes. All answers point to regenerating the master.key and enc file. I do so, update the RAILS_MASTER_KEY with the new one, and it doesn't solve the issue. Some say to save the old info and reuse it in the new enc. Still no joy. Anyone else hit this?

SOLVED: My fault... I was supposed to add the content master.key in render RAILS_MASTER_KEY and not the base secret which I was using. As you were folks, nothing to see here.

Now I can't seem to get yarn up and running:
error An unexpected error occurred: "EROFS: read-only file system, mkdir '/node_modules'".
jsbundling-rails: Command build failed, ensure yarn is installed and yarn build runs without errors. hmm...

haha you had me up to docker. I don't use docker. Have you tried going down this route? - https://render.com/docs/docker

Nice, that may be the solution, thank you! Now, to be clear, I'm not using docket other than local, so this is all using this video, straight up. I'm inches away from deploying. Always the case isn't it! Thanks for helping Tim!

Collin's advice is GOLD. Even if you have an existing app, use this to deploy the simplest beginning of it and THEN add-on.

Spent the last 2 weeks trying to deploy on render, fly.io, digital ocean... nothing worked for all different reasons. So, I followed his advice and I can live again! Thank you Collin. You guys are the tide that raises all rails boats.

Successfully deployed also using tailwind:

1. rails new app_name -j esbuild --css tailwind --database=postgresql

2. Added this to package.json:
   { "name": "app", "private": "true", "dependencies": { "@hotwired/stimulus": "^3.0.1", "@hotwired/turbo-rails": "^7.1.0", "autoprefixer": "^10.4.1", "esbuild": "^0.14.9", "postcss": "^8.4.5", "tailwindcss": "^3.0.8" }, "scripts": { "build": "esbuild app/javascript/*.* --bundle --sourcemap --outdir=app/assets/builds", "build:css": "tailwindcss -i ./app/assets/stylesheets/application.tailwind.css -o ./app/assets/builds/application.css" }}

3. Ran through this tutorial but got stuck:
   Oct 27 10:47:53 PM  ==> Generating container image from build. This may take a few minutes...
Oct 27 10:49:43 PM  ==> Uploading build...
Oct 27 10:50:13 PM  ==> Build uploaded in 24s
Oct 27 10:50:13 PM  ==> Build successful
Oct 27 10:50:13 PM  ==> Deploying...
Error getting active endpoint: revision.serving.knative.dev "srv-cddj6eien0hmkdfelnig-kn-00001" not found

4. Trying minor update and redeploying.

DEPLOYED!!! ::YAY:

Everything works up until the last step, where instead of a successful deploy, it fails again (despite adding the Linux platform) with:

Dec 30 01:18:45 PM RubyGems system software updated
Dec 30 01:18:46 PM ==> Running build command './bin/render-build.sh'...
Dec 30 01:18:47 PM Could not find nokogiri-1.13.10-x86_64-linux in cached gems or installed locally
Dec 30 01:18:47 PM ==> Build failed 😞

After executing the following I was still running into failed deployments as above:

bundle lock --add-platform x86_64-darwin
bundle lock --add-platform x86_64-linux

This fixed it for me:

bundle package --all-platforms

Now deployment succeeded! Woohoo!

Just a side note that after adding Tailwind, I ran into the same error of missing the Linux package (I'm developing on macOS) until I re-ran:

bundle package --all-platforms

If you don't add "free" to the render.yaml for postgres and the web service, it will go to starter plan and charge you money - just a heads up. That may be what you want, but if you're trying to use the free plan, make sure to update your render.yaml like so:

databases:
  ...
  plan: free
services:
  - type: web
    ...
    plan: free
  - type: redis
     ...
    plan: free

I am using windows I cannot run the chmod command so it always shows permission denied when deploying to render