#DeRailed!
Creating Web Apps In The Right `Gear...
An opinionated Lineman.js configuration using Angular, Bower and Ruby
Motivation
Getting started writing modern web apps has become increasingly difficult due the richness of OS front end contributions. Lineman.js makes it easier to manage and configure the various frameworks that compose a web application. That said, there are still way too much plumbing to worry about when you are tasked to deliver your own web app. DeRailed is very much opiniated and as such may or may not be your poison of choice. Out of the box, we bundle Haml, Coffeescript and Sass and pre-configure it for AngularJS development. Thus, you can fire it up and start coding your angular app right out of the gate. DeRailed also bundles Bower, which allows you to pull in other libraries that complements your needs. By default we've linked in Foundation, Bourbon and MomentJs.
So that's the story on the WEB front end side of things. But there is more...
More often than none, we find ourselves having to support other UIs, notably for mobile or external apis. Typically this becomes an after thought. On the ROR side, the answer for a while was: 'Oh just throw in a JSON responder and you're all good'. And there lays the path to perdition... Api's like anything else need to be thought out and designed. Having a clear separation between external interfaces and your server is a good thing whether these interfaces come in the shape of web, native or command line. As such DeRailed bundles Sinatra. Yes, once again opinionated but nonetheless offers an easy bridge to try out your server side api calls right away.
View the sample DeRailed Sinatra app DeRailed
Installation
You will need to install Nodejs and Npm in order to run lineman.js
$ npm install -g lineman
$ git clone git@github.com:derailed/lineman-derailed-template.git derailed_app
$ cd derailed_app
$ npm install
$ rm -rf .git
$ bundle
$ ruby server/api.rb
$ open http://localhost:8000
Running Tasks and Specs
$ lineman run
$ lineman spec
$ lineman grunt spec-e2e
License
DeRailed is released under the MIT license