Rails Templater

This is a template which allows creating new Ruby on Rails 3 applications quickly using some opinionated defaults. It is inspired by ffmike's BigOldRailsTemplate Rails 2 template project. To use templater with your Rails apps, use the -m switch when creating your application:

After cloning the rails-templater to your hard drive, you can generate a new app like so:

If you want to use Active Record with MySql: rails new application_name -JT -d mysql -m /path/to/rails-templater/templater.rb

If you want to use Mongo DB with Mongoid: rails new application_name -JOT -m /path/to/rails-templater/templater.rb

For use with RVM (recommended)

To have a hermetic gem environment, it is advisable to create a gemset just for your new rails app. To create a new rails app with its own gemset:

Clone rails-templater to your hard drive
Run the bootstrap.rb file with the RVM installed rubie and the name of your app as arguments

ruby /path/to/rails-templater/bootstrap.rb [rvm-rubie] [name of new app]

This will:

create a new gemset in the RVM rubie you specified and give it the name you chose for your app
change into the new gemset (start using it)
install the bundler and rails gem into your new gemset
run the command to generate a new rails app with the name you picked

Note that the line to generate the new rails app assumes that you want Active Record/MySql. If you intend to use Mongo, then just change the last line in bootstrap.rb from

system("rails new #{app_name} -JT -d mysql -m #{template_file}")

to:

system("rails new #{app_name} -JOT -m #{template_file}")

Generated Application

Rails Templater will generate the following:

Ruby on Rails

Uses Haml as the template engine
Uses Sass for generating CSS
jQuery for JavaScript over Prototype
Optionally uses Compass for design with the blueprint/semantic framework

Database

Uses Active Record as the default ORM
Optionally uses Mongoid as the Object Document Model

Testing

RSpec for testing
factory_girl for fixture replacement
remarkable for ActiveModel RSpec matchers
Optionally uses Cucumber for integration tests

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

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