# Struggle to deploy a new Rails application (Litestream + Tigris)

`fly launch` is failing for me.

This has worked before, I’m wondering if something is off.

Here is the application I’m trying to deploy.

Repository: **somaliska_svenska_kompis_klubben** – a project for contributing to its development.

In what fashion is it failing? Do you perhaps get an error? If so, would you put the error here?

> Error creating Tigris object storage: input:3: createAddOn domain name is required

`createAddOn domain name` is one error

```
No machines in group app, launching a new machine
WARN failed to release lease for machine 148e32edb70d58 [app]: lease not found

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✖ Failed: timeout reached waiting for health checks to pass for machine 148e32edb70d58: failed to get VM 148e32edb70d58: Get "https://ap…
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Error: timeout reached waiting for health checks to pass for machine 148e32edb70d58: failed to get VM 148e32edb70d58: Get "https://api.machines.dev/v1/apps/somaliska-svenska-kompis-klubben/machines/148e32edb70d58": net/http: request canceled

See https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/existing/#common-initial-deployment-issues for suggestions on how to resolve common deployment issues.
```

# Fly logs

```
2025-04-07T20:32:00Z app … clean, 15/64512 files, 8799/258048 blocks
… Mounting /dev/vdc at /data uid:1000 gid:1000 chmod 0755
… Resized /data to 1056964608 bytes
… Preparing to run: `/rails/bin/docker-entrypoint ./bin/rake litestream:run ./bin/rails server`
… [fly api proxy] listening at /.fly/api
… Machine started in ~1.2 s
… SSH listening on [fdaa:…]:22
… litestream version=v0.3.13
… ERROR: bucket required for s3 replica
… Main child exited with code: 1
… Starting clean up.
… Unmounting /dev/vdc from /data
… WARN: could not unmount /rootfs: EINVAL
… reboot: Restarting system
… Cycle repeats several times until restart limit is hit
… machine has reached its max restart count of 10
```

I’m using Ruby on Rails with SQLite as the database; I have had success deploying it in the past.

Any idea what the problem can be?

This has worked out-of-the-box in the past.

What does `fly secrets list` show? I recently added support for automatic backups of SQLite3 databases to Tigris using Litestream. The intent was that you could opt out by either unsetting or never setting `BUCKET_NAME`, but that may not be working correctly.

It looks like there were two problems, one of which has already been fixed:

[Cannot create new Tigris bucket](https://community.fly.io/t/cannot-create-new-tigris-bucket/24490)

> I am unable to create a new storage bucket through either the UI ( [Sign in to Your Account · Fly](https://fly.io/dashboard/my-org/tigris)) or CLI.
> UI error: There was an error creating your bucket. Please try again.
> CLI error: Error: input:3: createAddOn domain name is required.

You should be able to run `fly storage create`, then `fly deploy` and be up and running.

Thanks, this is client work. First time building a prototype using Ruby on Rails for that; I learned RoR through the book _Agile Web Development_ and it’s an honour having the author of that book responding back to me. Even today, that book is still a phenomenal programming resource and the hardcover always sits on my desk.

```
$ fly secrets list
NAME                DIGEST              CREATED AT
RAILS_MASTER_KEY    4511f03f6d8aae33    10h15m ago
```

It works fine now.