Kamal or a PaaS? Where to Deploy a Rails 8 App in 2026
Heroku is in maintenance mode and Rails 8 ships with Kamal out of the box. Here is how to decide between your own VPS and a managed platform, with a production-ready deploy.yml.
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Heroku is in maintenance mode and Rails 8 ships with Kamal out of the box. Here is how to decide between your own VPS and a managed platform, with a production-ready deploy.yml.

Rails 8 ships Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Solid Cable by default, but many teams still reach for Sidekiq, Redis and AnyCable. This post compares each pair with October 2026 versions and features, and gives a per-component decision table.
Rails 8.0 stops getting security patches on November 7, 2026. Here is what changes between 8.0 and 8.1, the seven new defaults and which ones can bite, and a dual-boot plan you can finish before the deadline.

A start-to-finish walkthrough of shipping a Rails 8 app with Vite, Solid Queue and PostgreSQL to a single Ubuntu VPS using Kamal 2 and Docker Hub, including the errors you will probably hit and how to fix each one.
RubyLLM 2.0.0.rc1 landed on RubyGems today with a full provider and protocol rewrite. Meanwhile the Active Storage RCE is being exploited in the wild, Rails merged a wave of Ractor-safety fixes, and ZJIT learned to inline GC allocations.
Ruby e Rails estão entrando em uma nova fase. Com Ruby 4, Rails 8.1, Infraestrutura Zero, Hotwire, Vite, IA integrada e uma abordagem cada vez mais orientada à simplicidade operacional, o ecossistema deixa para trás a cultura da complexidade excessiva e reafirma a força do monolito moderno como uma escolha técnica eficiente, elegante e soberana.