lo-suspenderss

This is a customized fork of thoughtbot's suspenders.

The primary differences are:

• Slim templates
• Bootstrap instead of thoughtbot's styles
• Dev tools like ActiveType, Awesome Print, Letter Opener, and Xray

Installation

First install the lo-suspenders gem:

gem install lo-suspenders

Then run:

lo-suspenders projectname

This will create a Rails app in projectname using the latest version of Rails.

Associated services

• Enable Circle CI Continuous Integration
• Enable GitHub auto deploys to Heroku staging and review apps.

Gemfile

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at lo-suspenders' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

• ActiveType for building simple and effective service objects
• Autoprefixer Rails for CSS vendor prefixes
• Bootstrap 4 for CSS and JS
• Flutie for page_title and body_class view helpers
• High Voltage for static pages
• jQuery Rails for jQuery
• New Relic RPM for monitoring performance
• Normalize for resetting browser styles
• Postgres for access to the Postgres database
• Rack Canonical Host to ensure all requests are served from the same domain
• Rack Timeout to abort requests that are taking too long
• Recipient Interceptor to avoid accidentally sending emails to real people from staging
• Sidekiq for background jobs
• Simple Form for form markup and style
• Slim for sexy Slim templates
• Puma to serve HTTP requests

And development gems like:

• Awesome Print for pretty printing with ap
• Brakeman for detecting security vulnerabilities
• Dotenv for loading environment variables
• Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
• ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
• Bullet for help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
• Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
• Letter Opener for previewing emails in the browser
• Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
• Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles.
• Quiet Assets for muting assets pipeline log messages
• Xray for inspecting view partials in the browser

And testing gems like:

• Capybara and Capybara Webkit for integration testing
• Factory Girl for test data
• Formulaic for integration testing HTML forms
• RSpec for unit testing
• RSpec Mocks for stubbing and spying
• Shoulda Matchers for common RSpec matchers
• Timecop for testing time

Other goodies

lo-suspenders also comes with:

• The ./bin/setup convention for new developer setup
• The ./bin/deploy convention for deploying to Heroku
• Rails' flashes set up and in application layout
• A few nice time formats set up for localization
• Rack::Deflater to compress responses with Gzip
• A low database connection pool limit
• Safe binstubs
• t() and l() in specs without prefixing with I18n
• An automatically-created SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable in all environments
• Configuration for CircleCI Continuous Integration (tests)
• Rack::Tracker for easy tracking

Credits

lo-suspenders is created by aguynamedloren, based on suspenders by thoughtbot, inc.