diff --git a/autoload/rails.vim b/autoload/rails.vim
index fc3b47c6..1ebab9b3 100644
--- a/autoload/rails.vim
+++ b/autoload/rails.vim
@@ -990,7 +990,9 @@ function! s:app_ruby_script_command(cmd) dict abort
 endfunction
 
 function! s:app_static_rails_command(cmd) dict abort
-  if filereadable(self.real('bin/rails'))
+  if exists('g:rails_cmd')
+    let cmd = g:rails_cmd
+  elseif filereadable(self.real('bin/rails'))
     let cmd = 'bin/rails '.a:cmd
   elseif filereadable(self.real('script/rails'))
     let cmd = 'script/rails '.a:cmd
@@ -5041,7 +5043,7 @@ function! rails#buffer_setup() abort
     if self.app().has_rails5()
       call self.setvar('dispatch',
             \ dir .
-            \ self.app().ruby_script_command('bin/rails') .
+            \ self.app().ruby_script_command( get(g:, 'rails_cmd', 'bin/rails') ) .
             \ " %:s/.*/\\=rails#buffer(submatch(0)).default_task(exists('l#') ? l# : 0)/")
     else
       call self.setvar('dispatch',
diff --git a/doc/rails.txt b/doc/rails.txt
index edb56341..daa661ab 100644
--- a/doc/rails.txt
+++ b/doc/rails.txt
@@ -793,6 +793,12 @@ single project.
 Gem maintainers may also provide custom projections by placing them in
 lib/rails/projections.json.
 
+						*g:rails_cmd*
+Set this if you want to specify a custom rails command. This could come in
+handy if you wanted to run rails in docker for example:
+>
+	let g:rails_cmd = 'docker compose run container bin/rails'
+<
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