Kickstart rails app template (basic/plain version)

Usage

1. Install

• PostgreSQL database
• Redis key-value server
• ruby using rbenv
• ruby on rails using gem install rails

2. Create app using template

rails new APP_NAME -T -d postgresql -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alec-c4/ks-rails-basic/master/template.rb

3. Create all required accounts:

• Digital Ocean or Linode
• Appsignal
• Postmark

4. Configure Appsignal with bundle exec appsignal install APPSIGNAL_KEY

5. Setup hypershield gem for PostgreSQL

6. Configure application secrets with following template

active_record_encryption:
  primary_key: ''
  deterministic_key: ''
  key_derivation_salt: ''
secret_key_base: ''
postmark:
  api_key: ''

You can generate active record encryption keys with following command

bin/rails db:encryption:init

7. Configure application in config/settings.yml

What's inside

• ruby on rails application template
• .gitignore file
• VSCode configuration files
• postgresql database connector
• online_migrations
• pre-configured generators
• I18n tools - rails-i18n and i18n-tasks
• rspec for testing
• better_html and erb-lint for erb linting
• standard.rb for code style validations
• bullet to prevent N+1 problems
• brakeman and bundler-audit as security scanners
• pry-rails and amazing_print for better rails console
• view_component as a replacement for partials
• annotate for annotations
• lefthook with pre-commit run of rspec, brakeman, standardjs, standardrb and erblint
• semantic_logger as a highly configurable logging system
• simplecov for test coverage research
• hypershield

TODO

• add documentation (howto's, best practices, curated list of libraries)