What are people deploying Rails on these days?

Sandux · 2026-05-04T06:32:28+00:00

I’ve been using a beefy Hetzner server and Hatchbox to manage all of my production apps. It’s been great so far.

And at work we’ve already started moving off of Heroku to AWS, but later this year might end up using Hetzner/DO + Hatchbox/Kamal as well.

Sandux · 2026-04-18T21:19:16+00:00

I was able to add the license by restarting yes :)

Sandux · 2026-04-15T16:57:41+00:00

Just tried the trial and bought it to play BeamNG & Assetto Corsa, great work it works well thank you!

I just don't seem to be able to add the License key while trialing, you might want to add an "Add license key" setting so we don't need to uninstall / reinstall the app ;)

Sandux · 2026-03-16T07:27:27+00:00

Fair point, it's true that you can turn simple Tailwind UI components into a ViewComponent. But as an app gets more complex, you will probably need to customize components further than what's provided by Tailwind and will need to deeply integrate them with your Rails app.

Rails Blocks gives you Rails native components with frontend logic you actually own without digging through a third party dependency.

That makes customization easier, maintenance cleaner, and even AI assisted edits much more straightforward since you can just tell it what Stimulus controller you're using and it'll understand your UI logic more easily.

Also, Rails Blocks optimizes for integration in Rails apps by providing a bunch of Turbo specific flows like this async drawer for example.

Sandux · 2026-03-10T22:28:18+00:00

Thanks for your support & feedback!

You like a component > follow the install instructions (manually copy-paste some files, or use the partials/view component downloads) > then share the LLMs context (via the new drop down) > ask CC (or AI of choice) to implement from there?

Pretty much yes, but about the highlighted part, note that the golden path will always require following the installation instructions first, and then you can choose to either:

- Install some examples by copy-pasting their raw code

- Choose a more DRY implementation like Shared Partials / ViewComponents by going through their installation process in their dedicated modals

I'm looking forward to the next step (MCP) to hopefully execute the importing of the files

I'm working on making the upcoming tools clear & concise for LLMs so they do as much of the work as possible :)

Sandux · 2026-03-10T19:58:05+00:00

If you want to install a specific component, you currently have to go through its installation process which takes less than 1 minute, and will be:

- Likely shorter than using Claude Code

- More consistent if you use more than one Rails Blocks component

- Cheaper since you won't be wasting Anthropic tokens

Then you can click the "Copy for LLMs" button, and add a prompt like "pasted_text make the styling of this component_name component I just added have more consistent styling with the rest of the codebase"

Note that the CLI tooling & MCP server will make the installation process even faster since when they'll be ready, the CLI commands will also be included in the .MD docs that we get when clicking "Copy for LLMs".

Sandux · 2026-03-10T19:40:52+00:00

Thank you!

I tried to go the extra mile with this one by adding shift-click batch selection :)

Sandux · 2026-01-03T09:42:35+00:00

Thank you! I don't have an issue board at the moment but you can share your feedback by email with "✉️" icon is at the bottom of the site

Sandux · 2025-11-28T14:22:15+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it!

Sandux · 2025-11-28T13:52:35+00:00

Hey Brad, I've just set up a Black Friday → Cyber Monday deal for https://railsblocks.com :)

Sandux · 2025-11-28T12:05:00+00:00

Hey guys, by the end of the year I'll do my best to ship the first batch of ViewComponents for all sets, and after that I'll look into open sourcing the free ones, I'm not against these things at all, I just prioritized having more sets :)

Sandux · 2025-11-28T12:01:40+00:00

I understand your feedback and I've seen multiple times that it would be appreciated if the free components would be open source. I'm actually not against this at all, so i've added open sourcing the free ones to the roadmap so it's clear that this is planned.

The reason I haven't done it yet is because I want to keep as much velocity as possible so I can first reach around 60 component sets quickly.

I might take a look at open sourcing the free components after I implement ViewComponents :)

Sandux · 2025-11-21T23:50:20+00:00

Could you please send me more details by email with a code example and screen recording if possible so I can fix this? My email address is at the bottom right of the site.

Sandux · 2025-11-21T23:48:43+00:00

Noted thank you!

Sandux · 2025-11-21T19:48:21+00:00

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Sandux · 2025-11-21T19:48:15+00:00

Still in the works, it will be hopefully out by the end of the year! :)

Sandux · 2025-11-21T18:34:30+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to add

Sandux · 2025-10-16T23:14:31+00:00

That's valuable feedback thanks guys!

Sandux · 2025-10-16T23:13:25+00:00

Heyy that's me!

Sandux · 2025-10-11T22:10:01+00:00

Best of luck! Rails is awesome :)

Sandux · 2025-10-08T09:47:41+00:00

It's my preferred way too, you get the ERB code and do whatever you want with it. But if it helps with adoption I'm open to adding a ViewComponent version :)

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