I’m excited to try out the new App platform. I’ve been asking Santa for something like this from DO for years.
I’ve got a rails app that happens to have a Dockerfile in the repo. I would expect this to be deployed with the rails bootpack, but when I try to setup the app, it says “Dockerfile detected” and tries to deploy it as a docker app. How do I deploy it as a rails app/buildpack?
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Thanks for trying out the App Platform! You’re right that currently if you create an app through the UI, and your repo contains a Dockerfile
at the root, then we’ll automatically use that instead of the Ruby/Rails buildpack.
You have a couple options:
Dockerfile
to something else so it’s not auto-detected (admittedly not ideal), ordoctl
directly with a custom app spec that doesn’t include a dockerfile_path
(which is what the UI is injecting).If you go with option (2), your custom app spec might look something like this initially:
name: sample-rails
services:
- name: web
github:
repo: digitalocean/sample-rails
branch: main
deploy_on_push: true
environment_slug: ruby-on-rails
And may evolve into something more complex over time like this sample.
We definitely appreciate your feedback on this, and will consider providing a way to avoid the auto Dockerfile
detection in the UI.
Happy coding!