bin/setup script to bootstrap applications.

guides/source/getting_started.md

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ of the files and folders that Rails created by default:
 | File/Folder | Purpose |
 | ----------- | ------- |
 |app/|Contains the controllers, models, views, helpers, mailers and assets for your application. You'll focus on this folder for the remainder of this guide.|
-|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to deploy or run your application.|
+|bin/|Contains the rails script that starts your app and can contain other scripts you use to setup, deploy or run your application.|
 |config/|Configure your application's routes, database, and more. This is covered in more detail in [Configuring Rails Applications](configuring.html).|
 |config.ru|Rack configuration for Rack based servers used to start the application.|
 |db/|Contains your current database schema, as well as the database migrations.|

railties/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+*   Add `bin/setup` script to bootstrap an application.
+
+    *Yves Senn*
+
 *   Replace double quotes with single quotes while adding an entry into Gemfile.
 
     *Alexander Belaev*

railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/bin/setup

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+require 'pathname'
+
+# path to your application root.
+APP_ROOT = Pathname.new File.expand_path('../../',  __FILE__)
+
+Dir.chdir APP_ROOT do
+  # This script is a starting point to setup your application.
+  # Add necessary setup steps to this file:
+
+  puts "== Installing dependencies =="
+  system "gem install bundler --conservative"
+  system "bundle install"
+
+  # puts "\n== Copying sample files =="
+  # unless File.exists?("config/database.yml")
+  #   system "cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml"
+  # end
+
+  puts "\n== Preparing database =="
+  system "bin/rake db:setup"
+
+  puts "\n== Removing old logs and tempfiles =="
+  system "rm -f log/*"
+  system "rm -rf tmp/cache"
+
+  puts "\n== Restarting application server =="
+  system "touch tmp/restart.txt"
+end

railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   bin/bundle
   bin/rails
   bin/rake
+  bin/setup
   config/environments
   config/initializers
   config/locales