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title Chapter 8: Production Deployment and Upgrade Strategy
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Chapter 8: Production Deployment and Upgrade Strategy

Welcome to Chapter 8: Production Deployment and Upgrade Strategy. In this part of MCP Ruby SDK Tutorial: Building MCP Servers and Clients in Ruby, you will build an intuitive mental model first, then move into concrete implementation details and practical production tradeoffs.

This chapter defines practical production controls for Ruby MCP services and clients.

Learning Goals

  • choose deployment topology by transport/session requirements
  • operate rolling upgrades with compatibility checks
  • keep logging, notifications, and resource limits production-safe
  • maintain protocol alignment across multi-service environments

Production Controls

  1. separate local stdio tooling from public HTTP deployment boundaries
  2. set request/session timeouts and payload guardrails
  3. monitor notification backlog and transport error rates
  4. validate protocol compatibility before gem upgrades
  5. run canary rollout steps before full fleet updates

Source References

Summary

You now have a production rollout and upgrade strategy for Ruby MCP implementations.

Return to the MCP Ruby SDK Tutorial index.

Depth Expansion Playbook

Source Code Walkthrough

dev.yml

The dev module in dev.yml handles a key part of this chapter's functionality:

name: mcp-ruby

type: ruby

up:
  - ruby
  - bundler

commands:
  console:
    desc: Open console with the gem loaded
    run: bin/console
  build:
    desc: Build the gem using rake build
    run: bin/rake build
  test:
    desc: Run tests
    syntax:
      argument: file
      optional: args...
    run:  |
      if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
        bin/rake test
      else
        bin/rake -I test "$@"
      fi
  style:
    desc: Run rubocop
    aliases: [rubocop, lint]
    run: bin/rake rubocop

This module is important because it defines how MCP Ruby SDK Tutorial: Building MCP Servers and Clients in Ruby implements the patterns covered in this chapter.

examples/streamable_http_server.rb

The streamable_http_server module in examples/streamable_http_server.rb handles a key part of this chapter's functionality:

# frozen_string_literal: true

$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.expand_path("../lib", __dir__))
require "mcp"
require "rack/cors"
require "rackup"
require "json"
require "logger"

# Create a logger for SSE-specific logging
sse_logger = Logger.new($stdout)
sse_logger.formatter = proc do |severity, datetime, _progname, msg|
  "[SSE] #{severity} #{datetime.strftime("%H:%M:%S.%L")} - #{msg}\n"
end

# Tool that returns a response that will be sent via SSE if a stream is active
class NotificationTool < MCP::Tool
  tool_name "notification_tool"
  description "Returns a notification message that will be sent via SSE if stream is active"
  input_schema(
    properties: {
      message: { type: "string", description: "Message to send via SSE" },
      delay: { type: "number", description: "Delay in seconds before returning (optional)" },
    },
    required: ["message"],
  )

  class << self
    attr_accessor :logger

    def call(message:, delay: 0)
      sleep(delay) if delay > 0

      logger&.info("Returning notification message: #{message}")

This module is important because it defines how MCP Ruby SDK Tutorial: Building MCP Servers and Clients in Ruby implements the patterns covered in this chapter.

.rubocop.yml

The .rubocop module in .rubocop.yml handles a key part of this chapter's functionality:

inherit_gem:
  rubocop-shopify: rubocop.yml

plugins:
  - rubocop-minitest
  - rubocop-rake

AllCops:
  TargetRubyVersion: 2.7

Gemspec/DevelopmentDependencies:
  Enabled: true

Lint/IncompatibleIoSelectWithFiberScheduler:
  Enabled: true

Minitest/LiteralAsActualArgument:
  Enabled: true

This module is important because it defines how MCP Ruby SDK Tutorial: Building MCP Servers and Clients in Ruby implements the patterns covered in this chapter.

How These Components Connect

flowchart TD
    A[dev]
    B[streamable_http_server]
    C[.rubocop]
    A --> B
    B --> C
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