📦 Railsmaker

Ship your MVP in hours, not weeks • Zero config needed • Save 20+ dev hours

• Ship Faster: From zero to production in 15 minutes
• Growth Ready: Built-in analytics, SEO, and monitoring
• Own Your Data: Fully self-hosted, full control, full flexibility
• Cost Efficient: You decide how much you want to spend
• DX Focused: Modern stack, zero configuration

• Privacy-focused: Self-hosted Plausible, Signoz, and Docker Registry
• SEO: Auto-optimized meta-tags & sitemaps
• Performance: Lightning-fast ~50ms page loads
• Mobile First: Instant responsive layouts

• UI: Latest TailwindCSS 4 + DaisyUI 5
• Auth: Battle-tested Clearance + OmniAuth
• Storage: SQLite + Litestream
• Email: Production-ready Mailjet integration
• Modern Stack: Rails 8, Ruby 3.2, Hotwire magic

• Monitoring: Full SigNoz & Sentry integration
• Deploy: One-command Kamal deployments, self-hosted Registry support
• Observability: Enterprise-grade OpenTelemetry + Lograge
• Scale-ready: Global CDN support, multi-environment

• Ruby 3.x (rbenv or rvm recommended)
• Bundler: gem install bundler
• Bun: Install guide
• Git
• Dev tools:
  • Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install build-essential libyaml-dev
  • macOS: xcode-select --install
• Docker (for analytics & monitoring)

# Docker registry access (required)
export KAMAL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD="docker-registry-password"

# Litestream backup configuration (optional)
export LITESTREAM_ACCESS_KEY_ID="access-key"
export LITESTREAM_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="secret-access-key"
export LITESTREAM_BUCKET="https://eu2.yourbucketendpoint.com/"
export LITESTREAM_REGION="eu2"

gem install railsmaker-core

# Interactive wizard (2 minutes)
railsmaker new:wizard

# Deploy to any cloud
kamal setup

If you have chosen to include litestream keep in mind that the corresponding kamal accessory will also be deployed.

railsmaker remote signoz \
  --ssh-host=monitor.example.com \
  --ssh-user=deploy

railsmaker remote signoz:opentelemetry \
  --ssh-host=app.example.com \
  --ssh-user=deploy \
  --signoz-host=monitor.example.com \
  --hostname=my-production-apps

railsmaker remote plausible \
  --ssh-host=analytics.example.com \
  --ssh-user=deploy \
  --analytics-host=plausible.example.com

railsmaker remote registry \
  --ssh-host=192.168.1.10 \
  --ssh-user=deploy \
  --registry-host=registry.example.com \
  --registry-username=admin \
  --registry-password=secret

After setting up your registry:

1. Create an A record for registry.example.com pointing to your server
2. Update your Kamal config to use your private registry (unless you already used -r option):

# config/deploy.yml
registry:
  server: registry.example.com
  username: admin
  password:
    - KAMAL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD

• SigNoz Dashboard: https://monitor.example.com:3301
• Plausible Analytics: https://analytics.example.com
• Docker Registry: https://registry.example.com
• Your App: https://app.example.com

Note: All services are tested on Ubuntu 24.04 and macOS 15.2.

For a more detailed guide, check out 10 Steps To Prod.

• SigNoz Server: 2 CPU, 4GB RAM minimum
• Plausible: 1 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum
• App Server: 1 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum

You can decide how to split the services between your servers (e.g. SigNoz & Plausible on a separate server from the app or apps).

In case of DB failure, follow these steps to recover your data:

1. Stop the application:

kamal app stop

2. Remove existing database files:

kamal app exec /bin/sh -i
rm -rf ./storage/*
exit

3. Recover files and set proper ownership to files:

kamal restore-db-app
kamal restore-db-cache
kamal restore-db-queue
kamal restore-db-cable
kamal restore-db-ownership

4. Restart Litestream to initiate recovery:

kamal accessory reboot litestream

5. Start the application:

kamal app boot

After deploying services with railsmaker remote commands, you can manage them using standard Docker commands:

# Navigate to the service directory
cd ~/SERVICE_DIRECTORY

# Common commands for all services
docker compose ps          # List containers
docker compose logs -f     # View logs
docker compose restart     # Restart all containers
docker compose down        # Stop all containers
docker compose up -d       # Start all containers

Service directories:

• Plausible Analytics: ~/plausible-ce
• SigNoz Server: ~/signoz/deploy/docker
• SigNoz Server Collector: ~/signoz/deploy/docker/generator/infra
• OpenTelemetry Collector (other servers): ~/signoz-opentelemetry/deploy/docker/generator/infra

Note: Replace ~ with the absolute path if using sudo or running commands as another user.

If you are relying on Cloudflare, make sure you set-up SSL/TLS to Full for your application and analytics.

This project is pay-what-you-want. If it helps you ship faster:

Give it a try at railsmaker.com