Use Continuous Integration to Deploy

Overview

Up to this point, we’ve mostly talked about the code in our Rails app. Earlier, we created some scripts in bin, like bin/run and bin/ci, which help with working on the app itself. In this section of the course, we want to talk about a few other techniques that can help with the sustainability of the team overall.

The techniques here are some we’ve used in earnest on both small and large teams, and they should provide us value as well. Of course, there are many other techniques, workflows, and processes to make our team productive and development sustainable. Hopefully, learning about these processes can inspire us to prioritize team and process sustainability.

Let’s start off with one that we might already be doing: continuous integration.