Deploy a Rails app
Keep your Rails repo focused on the app while we handle the server and bring it online at an HTTPS URL.
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AI agent? Start with llms.txt.
Start with your Rails repo
The Rails setup you already maintain carries into deployment, keeping extra configuration to a minimum. After you push the repo or connect GitHub, we detect the Ruby version and the existing commands for starting the app and running migrations. The environment variables your code reads also appear for review before the app is built.
Before deploying, you review the setup and enter the private credentials only you know. Tokay creates the database credentials and keeps every secret encrypted in storage until the app receives it at runtime.
Rails web, worker, and scheduled processes share databases and Secrets
Your Rails app runs as one system on Tokay, so it is easy to understand and operate. The web app and its background work share the Project's databases and secrets, with each process getting its own Service. The whole Project runs on one dedicated virtual machine, where background workers stay running and scheduled Rails tasks start when they are due.
If the app expects Postgres or Redis, Tokay creates the database and supplies its connection to each Service that needs it.
Deployments protect your app and data
Rails migrations run as part of the deployment rather than a separate production procedure. Tokay rehearses each migration against a copy of your data. If a migration would remove data, you see the impact and decide whether to continue. Before any migration runs in production, we take a database snapshot.
The working version continues serving while Tokay checks the new one. If a health check fails, traffic does not move, and the failed deployment records the evidence needed for review.
Hand the deployment to your AI agent
A coding agent like Claude Code or Codex can handle routine deployment work so you can keep your attention on the app. Through the GraphQL API, the agent can submit the repo and review the same detected setup you see. After you provide the secret values, the agent sets them through the API before deploying the Services and verifying the live app. Destructive database changes require your approval. Point your agent to app.tokay.io/llms.txt to get started.
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