diff --git a/.github/workflows/rails.yml b/.github/workflows/rails.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6cb0618
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/rails.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+name: "Ruby on Rails CI"
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    services:
+      mysql2:
+        image: mysql:5.7
+        ports:
+          - "3306:3306"
+        env:
+          MYSQL_DATABASE: rails_test
+          MYSQL_USER: rails
+          MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
+          MYSQL_TCP_PORT: 3306
+          MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: true
+          MYSQL_ONETIME_PASSWORD: true
+        # Before continuing, verify the mysql container is reachable from the ubuntu host
+        options: --health-cmd="mysqladmin ping" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3
+
+    env:
+      RAILS_ENV: test
+      NODE_ENV: test
+      DATABASE_URL: "mysql2://rails:password@127.0.0.1:3306/rails_test" # localhost doesn't work because the application can't connect to the linux host socket
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install Ruby and gems
+        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@55283cc23133118229fd3f97f9336ee23a179fcf # v1.146.0
+        with:
+          bundler-cache: true
+      - name: Set up database schema
+        run: bundle exec rails db:create db:migrate
+      - name: Install Node.js and packages
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
+        with:
+          node-version: '18'
+      - name: Install Yarn and packages
+        run: npm install -g yarn@1.22.19 && yarn install
+      - name: Run webpacker
+        run: NODE_OPTIONS="--openssl-legacy-provider" bundle exec rails webpacker:compile # NODE_OPTIONS needs to be set inline to avoid a webpacker error with node 18
+      - name: Run rspec
+        run: bundle exec rspec
+
+  lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install Ruby and gems
+        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@55283cc23133118229fd3f97f9336ee23a179fcf # v1.146.0
+        with:
+          bundler-cache: true
+      # Add or replace any other lints here
+      - name: Run rubocop
+        run: bundle exec rubocop
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index d4f5083..23dc72a 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ gem 'bootsnap', '>= 1.4.4', require: false
 group :development, :test do
   # Call 'byebug' anywhere in the code to stop execution and get a debugger console
   gem 'byebug', platforms: %i[mri mingw x64_mingw]
-  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 6.0.0', groups: %i[development test]
-  gem 'factory_bot_rails', '~> 6.0.0',
+  gem 'factory_bot_rails', '~> 6.0.0', require: false
+  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 6.0.0'
   gem 'rubocop', '~> 1.48', require: false
   gem 'rubocop-performance', '~> 1.16', require: false
   gem 'rubocop-rails', '~> 2.18', require: false
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77bcf0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# This file is auto-generated from the current state of the database. Instead
+# of editing this file, please use the migrations feature of Active Record to
+# incrementally modify your database, and then regenerate this schema definition.
+#
+# This file is the source Rails uses to define your schema when running `bin/rails
+# db:schema:load`. When creating a new database, `bin/rails db:schema:load` tends to
+# be faster and is potentially less error prone than running all of your
+# migrations from scratch. Old migrations may fail to apply correctly if those
+# migrations use external dependencies or application code.
+#
+# It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
+
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 0) do
+
+end