basis

Inspired by suspenders, I decided to build out my own default Rails app.

Make It Your Own

Replace all the instances of 'basis' and 'Basis' with your app's name, using either all lowercase letters when replacing 'basis' and only the first letter uppercase when replacing 'Basis'. These are the files that should contain instances that need to be replaced (but you're better off doing a find/replace across all files in your text editor):

• .rvmrc
• app/views/layouts/application.html.erb, in title tag
• config/application.rb
• config/database.yml
• config/environment.rb
• config/environments/development.rb
• config/environments/production.rb
• config/environments/test.rb
• config/initializers/session_store.rb

Remove Gemfile.lock from the .gitignore file.

Edit this line from config/initializers/devise.rb:

config.mailer_sender = 'please-change-me-at-config-initializers-devise@example.com'

Configure Errbit in config/initializers/errbit.rb.

If you're not staying open-source, you'll probably want to:

• Remove the .travis.yml file
• Remove the gem 'coveralls', require: false line from the Gemfile file
• Remove the first two lines in the spec/rails_helper.rb file

Commands To Run

• bundle install
• rake secret
  • Replace the secret_key_base in config/secrets.yml with the result of this command
• rake db:create

Testing

• Run rake db:migrate to create the initial, blank, schema.rb file
• Run rake db:test:load to set up the testing database
• You will need to run rake db:test:prepare after every migration (do yourself a favor and add alias migrate="rake db:migrate && rake db:rollback && rake db:migrate && rake db:test:prepare" to your .bash_profile file)
• Run rspec to run all the tests once (and to generate a coverage file in coverage/index.html)
• Run guard to monitor the project while you work (it will automatically run relevant tests whenever files are saved)
• Optionally, install growlnotify from the Extras/growlnotify/growlnotify.pkg in Growl's disk image to get notifications from guard

Tools

errbit

Errors are logged with Errbit

If you do not want to use Errbit:

• Remove the gem 'airbrake' line from Gemfile
• Remove the config/initializers/errbit.rb file

mailcatcher

mailcatcher lets you view mail being sent by the app in the browser.

One time setup:

• rvm default@mailcatcher --create
• gem install mailcatcher
• rvm wrapper default@mailcatcher --no-prefix mailcatcher catchmail

Each use:

• mailcatcher
• Go to http://localhost:1080
• Perform actions that produce emails
• http://localhost:1080 will automatically display the incoming email & provide notifications if you have Growl installed

metric_fu

metric_fu displays code metrics from the reports of many other tools.

To run it, run rspec and then run metric_fu in the Rails project directory.

newrelic

Performance information can be logged to NewRelic:

• Uncomment the # gem 'newrelic_rpm' line from Gemfile
• Add your newrelic.yml file to the config folder