This is a fork of a rails template based on Rails template based on Mike Fischer's greendog-rails-template. It also incorporates work from PerfectLine's Template Bucket system. The goal of this fork is to fix bugs and extend the template so that it works better out-of-the-box.

For more information:
https://github.com/greendog99/greendog-rails-template
https://github.com/perfectline/template-bucket

Overview

This is just a Rails Template to facilitate the quick set-up of my Rails applications. The main features are:

• Sets up the compass-html5-boilerplate gem by Peter Gumeson (sporkd). This provides:
• All templates, stylesheets, and views use haml and sass.
• Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate for layout and reset.
• Compass for managing CSS mixins and frameworks.
• Adds a simple 12-column grid framework from http://www.1kbgrid.com/ (converted to sass).
• Adds a basic stylesheet with header, nav bar, body, and footer, and styles for flash messages and buttons.
• Adds a partial to render form error messages.
• Removes everything to do with Prototype, since the Boilerplate is based on JQuery.
• Removes unneeded files like the default Rails index.html and image.
• Adds a Gemfile with commonly needed gems, and some some optional gems available to un-comment when needed.
• Creates a custom RVM gemset for the application, and installs all Gems via bundler.
• Uses RSpec and factory_girl instead of test-unit.
• Implements automatic log rotation for server logs, based on log size.
• Adds a config/app_config.yml file and corresponding initializer, to facilitate app-specific config settings.
• Disables timestamped_migrations to make the filenames more usable in TextMate.
• Sets up a Git repository complete with gitignore list, and commits the entire project.
• Adds a demos controller and several demo pages to help get started.

Prerequisites

• Rails 3.0 or newer
• RVM with at least one Ruby installed

Usage

Get a copy of the template:

git clone git://github.com/chanpory/greendog-rails-template.git /tmp/greendog-rails-template

Create a new Rails application as normal, specifying the path to the template script with the -m flag:

rails new appname -m /tmp/greendog-rails-template/template.rb

Start the rails server with rails s and browse to `http://localhost:3000/users.

Documentation

This section will explain how to use each of the features.

To Do

• Add capistrano deploy.rb file.
• Optionally (based on user interrogation) set up features like devise, paperclip, etc.

See Also

• http://rdoc.info/github/wycats/thor/master/Thor/Actions - Actions used in app template generators (e.g. InjectIntoFile)

Credits

Thanks to others whose work has steered me in the right direction:

• https://github.com/shawn/shawns-rails3-template/
• https://github.com/sporkd/compass-html5-boilerplate
• http://html5boilerplate.com/