Now, keen developers will be sharpening their pitchforks right now, because you should 100% run Postgres locally if you’re developing a Real Application, to ensure your local environment matches your production one. But for the purposes of this exercise, let’s just be roguish and tell no one. They’ll never know.
nger …ble framework, but sometimes you don’t need all the bulk of the asset pipeline and a layout system. In Rails 5 you can now create an API-only Rails app, meaning you can build your front-end however you like. It’s no longer 100% omakase.