Skeleton for new Rails based projects
Clone application as new project with original repository named "rails-base"
git clone git://github.com/yaeda/rails-base.git --origin rails-base [NEW-PROJECT]
Create new repo on GitHub and push master into it. Make sure master branch is tracking origin repo.
git remote add origin git@github.com:[NAMESPACE]/[NEW-PROJECT].git
git push -u origin master
Fetch latest changes from rails-base repo and merge or cherry-pick commits
git fetch rails-base
git checkout -b rails-base-update
git merge rails-base/master
# fix conflicts
# commit
# test
git checkout master
git merge rails-base-update
git branch -d rails-base-update