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Rails4 Blank App

This app contains just the minimum configuration needed to start coding right away on the things that matter. It's easier for me to maintain than a rails template.

Thanks

• to foca for this great idea! This app is an adapted version of the Blank Slate app.
• to Xenda and frodsan for their own application template, I stole good ideas from them.

How to use

$ git clone https://github.com/Florent2/rails4_blank_app your_app_name
$ your_app_name/bin/init

Customizations

• a README boilerplate with installation, deployment, development and test sections. On installation it replaces the README.md file you are currently reading
• secret_key_base is loaded from the unversioned .env file through the dotenv-rails gem (why it is important)
• an initializer aborts the application initialization if a ENV variable listed in .env.example is missing
• PostgreSQL is the selected database
• config/database.yml is unversioned, this allows different developers to use different credentials locally, and avoid any risk of versioning db production credentials
• a PagesController with a home view to which points the root route
• test and development logs are automatically rotated to save disk space
• use Bootstrap 3 (without gem)
• layout includes flash messages display
• always raise an exception when an unpermitted attribute is trying to be set
• use marco-polo to display current Rails env && application name in console prompt

For development

• guard-livereload and rack-livereload to have app asset changes apply live in the browser without a browser extension
• Overcommit to enforce automated checks before commits
• Better Errors for more useful error pages
• QuickLog for nice debugging statements
• Quiet Assets to mute assets pipeline log messages
• Jazz Hands (with Hirb enabled by default) for a better rails console
• Guard-CTags-Bundler to automatically update ctags for projet files and gems from project's bundle
• dotenv to load env variables from the .env. file
• byebug for the debugger (available in the test environment too)
• did_you_mean to get clues about correct method name when method name errors

For tests

• single_test to invoke single tests with rakish syntax
• guard-test to continuously run tests

TODOs

• user http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYOX6OIp_FE instead of dotenv-rails
• add Rubocop and Rubocop config file
• add a page_title helper (flutie)
• add a pre commit hook that aborts commit if byebug is left in a file
• use https://github.com/schneems/sprockets_better_errors ?