mislav / kickstart-rails

Kickstart your Rails app with a blank-slate project configured for RSpec, Haml

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mislav (author)
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file README.markdown Sun Apr 27 18:36:56 -0700 2008 indent code blocks in README [mislav]
file Rakefile Sun Apr 27 14:47:24 -0700 2008 generated Rails skeleton [mislav]
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README.markdown

Kick-start your new Rails project with this blank-slate application

git clone --origin kickstart git://github.com/mislav/kickstart-rails.git project_name

Example of what you could to after that:

cd project_name
script/generate sexy_scaffold user name:string email:string last_login:datetime
rake db:migrate
script/server

Then visit localhost:3000/users.

Preconfigured for:

  • Rails 2.1
  • HTML4 Strict
  • RSpec
  • Haml
  • make_resourceful

Useful stuff:

  • CSS reset in Sass
  • application layout in Haml
  • few application view helpers
  • sexy_scaffold generator (RSpec + Haml + make_resourceful)

TODO:

  • Simple JavaScript helpers in application.js
  • Paperclip for attachments?
  • spec'd out user authentication