Rails Templater

This is a template which allows creating new Ruby on Rails 3 applications quickly using some opinionated defaults. It is inspired by ffmike's BigOldRailsTemplate Rails 2 template project. To use templater with your Rails apps, use the -m switch when creating your application:

After cloning the rails-templater to your hard drive, you can generate a new app like so:

If you want to use Active Record with MySql: rails new application_name -JT -d mysql -m /path/to/rails-templater/templater.rb

If you want to use DataMapper: rails new application_name -JOT -m /path/to/rails-templater/templater.rb

For use with RVM (recommended)

To have a hermetic gem environment, it is advisable to create a gemset just for your new rails app. To create a new rails app with its own gemset:

• Clone rails-templater to your hard drive

• Run the bootstrap.rb file with the RVM installed rubie and the name of your app as arguments

  ruby /path/to/rails-templater/bootstrap.rb [rvm-rubie] [name of new app]

This will:

• create a new gemset in the RVM rubie you specified and give it the name you chose for your app
• change into the new gemset (start using it)
• install the bundler and rails gem into your new gemset
• run the command to generate a new rails app with the name you picked

Note that the line to generate the new rails app assumes that you want DataMapper/Sqlite3. If you intend to use Active Record, then just change the last line in bootstrap.rb from

system("rails new #{app_name} -JOT -m #{template_file}")

to:

system("rails new #{app_name} -JT -m #{template_file}")

Generated Application

Rails Templater will generate the following:

Ruby on Rails

• Uses Haml as the template engine
• Uses Sass for generating CSS
• jQuery for JavaScript over Prototype
• Optionally uses Compass for design with the blueprint/semantic framework

Database

• Uses DataMapper as the default ORM
• Optionally uses Active Record as the ORM

Testing

• RSpec for testing
• factory_girl for fixture replacement
• remarkable for Active Model RSpec matchers
• Optionally uses Cucumber for integration tests

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.