A rails 3 application template which provides the gems I think are the best of breed.

** Authentication **

• devise

** Testing **

• rspec2
• capybara
• steak
• factory_girl

** Frontend **

• haml
• sass
• compass
• compass-susy
• jquery

rails new my_app -J -T -m  http://github.com/mcolyer/rails3-app/raw/master/app.rb
cd my_app
gem install bundler
bundle install
script/rails generate rspec:install

We love rvm, so the application has an .rvmrc generated to specify a gemset.

This also gives you the Factory Girl and Haml Rails 3 generators — the generators for RSpec are in the RSpec gem — so that your factories and views are generated using Factory Girl and Haml, and that all your generated tests are specs. These generators are from the haml-rails and factory_girl_generator gems.

Since the Rails helper javascript_include_tag :defaults is looking for Prototype, we change the default JavaScript includes to be jQuery.

We love git, so the application has a git repo initialized with all the initial changes staged.

After the application has been generated, there are a few final command to finish the install, check the output!

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix in a branch.
• Send me a pull request.