--- title: Kamal, Rails deployments, and Rega turntables | daily.dev description: A personal account of deploying a Rails blog using Kamal without Docker Desktop on macOS. The author walks through replacing Docker Desktop with Colima and the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kamal-rails-deployments-and-rega-turntables-yjqwbj2xb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kamal, Rails deployments, and Rega turntables | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of deploying a Rails blog using Kamal without Docker Desktop on macOS. The author walks through replacing Docker Desktop with Colima and the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kamal-rails-deployments-and-rega-turntables-yjqwbj2xb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YJqWbJ2xB.png og:image:alt: Kamal, Rails deployments, and Rega turntables og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kamal, Rails deployments, and Rega turntables **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of deploying a Rails blog using Kamal without Docker Desktop on macOS. The author walks through replacing Docker Desktop with Colima and the docker CLI, using Kamal's local registry feature (avoiding the need for an external Docker registry), and shares an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile for a Rails/SQLite app running on a free Oracle VM. Key practical notes include SSH tunnelling speed limitations with local registries and Colima setup steps for Apple Silicon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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