Speedrail

Application template for starting new rails applications with the technologies I like.

Includes:

1. Rails 5

• Bootstrap 3

2. Testing (with RSpec)

• Capybara configured for feature tests
• Factory Girl
• Pry

Usage

Prerequisites:

1. To automatically create git repositor, 2 environment variables need to be set: GITHUB_USER and GITHUB_TOKEN.

• GITHUB_TOKEN can be generated at https://github.com/settings/tokens
• export them like export GITHUB_USER=myuser

2. Postgres must be installed. E.g. brew install postgres on MacOS

rails new <app name> --template speedrail/template.rb

Tips

To set global defaults for new rails projects, create ~/.railsrc with suitable command line flags for you. Mine are:

--skip-test-unit
--skip-bundle
--database=postgresql
--skip-keeps

Future developments

Currently this is just plain rails app with couple cleanup & added gems. Cleaner solution would be to package it as a gem and provide generators with configurations.

Features to add:

• instead of hard copy, see how it could be implemented using rails generators
• automatic CI integration
• setting application name