👉 We've also built Jumpstart Pro which is a version of Jumpstart that includes payments with Stripe & Braintree, team accounts, TailwindCSS, and much more.

Jumpstart Rails Template

All your Rails apps should start off with a bunch of great defaults. It's like Laravel Spark, for Rails.

Want to see how it works? Check out the Jumpstart walkthrough video:

Getting Started

Jumpstart is a Rails template, so you pass it in as an option when creating a new app.

Requirements

You'll need the following installed to run the template successfully:

• Ruby 2.5 or higher
• bundler - gem install bundler
• rails - gem install rails
• Database - we recommend Postgres, but you can use MySQL, SQLite3, etc
• Redis - For ActionCable support
• ImageMagick or libvips for ActiveStorage variants
• Yarn - brew install yarn or Install Yarn
• Foreman (optional) - gem install foreman - helps run all your processes in development

Creating a new app

rails new myapp -d postgresql -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/excid3/jumpstart/master/template.rb

Or if you have downloaded this repo, you can reference template.rb locally:

rails new myapp -d postgresql -m template.rb

❓Having trouble? Try adding DISABLE_SPRING=1 before rails new. Spring will get confused if you create an app with the same name twice.

Running your app

bin/dev

You can also run them in separate terminals manually if you prefer.

A separate Procfile is generated for deploying to production on Heroku.

Authenticate with social networks

We use the encrypted Rails Credentials for app_id and app_secrets when it comes to omniauth authentication. Edit them as so:

EDITOR=vim rails credentials:edit

Make sure your file follow this structure:

secret_key_base: [your-key]
development:
  github:
    app_id: something
    app_secret: something
    options:
      scope: 'user:email'
      whatever: true
production:
  github:
    app_id: something
    app_secret: something
    options:
      scope: 'user:email'
      whatever: true

With the environment, the service and the app_id/app_secret. If this is done correctly, you should see login links for the services you have added to the encrypted credentials using EDITOR=vim rails credentials:edit

Enabling Admin Panel

App uses madmin gem, so you need to run the madmin generator:

rails g madmin:install

This will install Madmin and generate resources for each of the models it finds.

Redis set up

On OSX

brew update
brew install redis
brew services start redis

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Cleaning up

rails db:drop
spring stop
cd ..
rm -rf myapp