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Rails 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.

I no longer maintain this project, see rails4_blank_app for the successor.

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. Check barney, frodsan's application template.

How to use

$ git clone https://github.com/Florent2/rails_blank_app your_app_name
$ your_app_name/script/init

Customizations

This app has the following customizations:

• a README boilerplate with installation, deployement, development and test sections. On installation it replaces the README.md file you are currently reading
• Twitter Bootstrap for the base design, installed through bootstrap-sass
• Haml as the templating engine for HTML and an application layout in Haml with some layout helpers (copied from nifty_generators)
• a PagesController with a home view to which points the root route
• PostgreSQL is the selected database
• rails.png and index.html are removed

For Development

• guard-livereload and rack-livereload to have app asset changes apply live in the browser without a browser extension
• lll for nice debugging statements
• quiet_assets to mute assets pipeline log messages
• sextant to show routes in the browser (quicker than rake routes)
• guard-ctags-bundler to automatically update ctags for projet files and gems from project's bundle
• pry-rails to have rails console to open pry
• application is configured to not generate stylesheet, javascript and helper file when scaffolding a resource
• a pre commit hook which aborts a commit if there is a :focus or debugger statement in the specs or code, or left git failed merge markup
• a Consular script is automatically created if Consular is used on the machine
• logs are automatically rotated to save disk space

For testing

• rspec-rails, with generators only for models and requests specs
• capybara for integration tests
• spork to avoid rails initialization on each test suite run
• growl-rspec to see RSpec test results in growl notifications
• logs are automatically rotated to save disk space