agilecreativity / rails4-spike-template

My Rails 4.0 and Postgres Template (for quick spike)

This is my minimal template that I use for spike new idea using Rails 4 and Postgres.

Requirements:

• Postgres database with admin user postgres

# connect to `postgres` database as `postgres` user (admin)
sudo su - postgres psql postgres

• Useful command from inside psql session

\?  - list help
\l  - list all databases
\dg - list all roles

• From inside psql session try to create the role for our app

postgres=# drop database if exists blogs_development;
postgres=# drop database if exists blogs_test;

• Create a user (or role) blogs_admin with password password with superuser access.

create role blogs_admin with superuser createdb createrole inherit replication login password 'password'

• Update the database configuration of rails project

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: blogs_development
  pool: 5
  username: blogs_admin
  password: password

test:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: blogs_test
  pool: 5
  username: blogs_admin
  password: password

production:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: blogs_production
  pool: 5
  username: blogs_admin
  password: password

• Run the migration

bundle exec rake db:setup
bundle exec rake db:migrate

• start the rails console

rails s

• open your browser to http://localhost:3000 to see the apps

TODO:

• add starter gems for rspec, guard, or spring, pry, etc.

Useful links

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createrole.html