Quickly get a new Rails 5 up and running on Heroku

Including some options I enjoy. Adjust to suit your needs.

• Sidekiq for jobs
• Slim for templating
• Bootstrap as a starting point for stylesheets

Instructions

Navigate to the location of your new project.

cd ~/projects/new-project

Copy the repo from Github to your local directory.

git clone https://github.com/ryanstrickler/rails-5-starter-kit.git

Rename the application folder.

mv rails-5-starter-kit new-project

Navigate into the new project folder.

cd new-project

Remove the old git information.

rm -rf .git

Find and replace the app name.

find . -name 'application.rb' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s/StarterKit/<AppName>/g"
find . -name '*.rb' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s/starter_kit/<app_name>/g"
find . -name '*.yml' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s/starter_kit/<app_name>/g"
find . -name '*.yml' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s/STARTER_KIT/<APP_NAME>/g"

Start a fresh git repository.

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'

Install the necessary gems.

bundle install
gem install foreman

Run with foreman.

foreman start

Optional

Github

Create a new repository.

https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo/

Add a new remote and push your new code.

git remote add github https://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git
git push -u github master

Heroku

Add a new app.

heroku apps:create <new-project>
git push heroku

Add redis.

heroku addons:create heroku-redis

Add a worker.

heroku ps:scale worker=1

Start making something awesome. 🎉