Rails Application Templates

This is a rails application template for quickly setting up Rails 3 apps.

To Use

Fastest, try it out:

rails new appname --skip-gemfile -JTm tiny.cc/rails3

Slower, installation:

If you want, you can simply download the rails3.rb template file, and feed it the rails command as an argument when you generate a new app:

wget --no-check-certificate 'https://github.com/sid137/rails-templates/raw/master/rails3.rb'
rails new $appname --skip-gemfile -JTm rails3.rb 

Recommended installation, For long term usage:

I added a function to my .zshrc, which gives me shell shortcut to load the rails3.rb template hosted on github.

ZSH function to initialize rails apps with templates file: ~/.zsrhc

function rapp {
    appname=$1
    template=$2
    rails new $appname --skip-gemfile -JTm https://github.com/sid137/rails-templates/raw/master/${template:-rails3}.rb 
}

With this shell command in place you can then rRun the default rails3.rb template by using the shell command % rapp appname

Template Actions

This template carries out the following actions when you run it for a new rails app.

• Installs a default GEMFILE with my normal gems

• Installs a HAML based layout, application.html.haml.

  • Layout loads JQuery from Google CDN

  • Stylesheets

  • HTML5 shiv to make older brozswers recognize HTML5 styling

  • sets up favicon and google analytics partial

  • renders flashes in

    tag

• Default main.sass file which loads things I use

• Creates a Google Analytics partial

• Creates a .gitignore

• Creates a README.md listing next steps to take

• Creates a SECRETS file listing files to never let sneak into the open public

• Creates a git repository for project

• Installs Compass/Sass to manage css

• Installs rspec and configures it for documentation format

• Creates rspec directories needed for all testing

• Creates an empty spec/factories.rb for using Factory Girl

• Tells git to not ignore empty directories that we want to save

• uses Bundler to install all gems to the project vendor/bundler directory, along with shortcuts in the bin directory

• runs ctags to create a ctags file for navigating all of the gems, along with the rails source

• Adds all files to the git rerpo

• Finalizes initial commit

• Creates local branches for staging and development