Bones - a webapp template for Go

Installing dependencies

You can use go get to install all required dependencies: go get ./...

The file dependencies.txt contains an up to date list of third party libraries that will be installed by running the previous command.

More docs to come.

Database & tables

Copy db/database.yaml.example to db/database.yaml and update the configuration.

You can install and use the included execdb tool to initialize the database with the required tables: execdb -c "user=youruser password='yourpassword' host=localhost port=5432 dbname=bones_development sslmode=disable"

Heroku (using Keith Rarick's buildpack)

1. heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git
2. git push heroku master
3. heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
4. heroku pg:wait
5. heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL
6. heroku run execdb
7. heroku open

Note that the HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL must be substituted with the actual envvar (e.g. HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_GREEN_URL)

Rename the project

You probably don't want your own application to be named "Bones". The rename tool (PROJECT_ROOT/tools/rename) will help you update the import paths of the included packages to use a name of your own choosing:

go run tools/rename/rename.go -name=appname

The tool is "AST aware", so it won't just rename anything with the text "bones" in it. Rewrites will be limited to imports, with the exception of code formatting. The go/printer package is used to write the results back to disk with a configuration that matches the formatting of the Bones codebase (should be default gofmt settings).

Currently, rename only updates imports. You still need to update files like .godir and Procfile manually.