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title: "Running Thruster with Rails and Kamal"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-thruster-with-rails-and-kamal-v9bzbzluv
source_url: https://nts.strzibny.name/running-thruster-rails-kamal/
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source: "RUBYLAND"
published: 2024-05-09T08:26:25.456Z
updated: 2026-04-23T02:13:22.112Z
tags: ["kamal", "rails"]
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# Running Thruster with Rails and Kamal

**[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

How to add Thruster to an existing Rails project deployed with Kamal. Thruster solves HTTP/2 support, HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, HTTP caching of public assets, and X-Sendfile support and compression as a proxy for Puma. It improves serving application assets in Rails through its X-Sendfile support.

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