Awesome

Click here to view demo application. Check out the Demo setup page to toggle application settings.

Goals

This starter is aimed at Rails developers familiar with the framework, aiming to facilitate seamless development with the following principles:

• No DSL: Avoid unnecessary Domain Specific Language (DSL) complexity.
• Simplicity over Efficiency: Prioritize simplicity in implementation over excessive optimization.
• Avoid Complex Frontend Functionality: Keep frontend functionality straightforward and manageable.

Overview

• Pre-equipped with essential models such as

  • Users
  • Roles
  • Plans
  • Subscriptions

• User authentication & authorization

  • Authentication via Devise
  • OmniAuth integration to extend authentication using third-party providers
  • Authorization through Pundit

• Background worker & scheduler

  • Utilizes sidekiq and sidekiq-scheduler

• Role management

  • Standard roles available across spaces
  • Custom role creation per space
  • Supports fine grained permissions per role

• Multiple user namespaces support

  • Utilizes the Space model to represent user namespaces (e.g., teams, organizations).
  • Example use case for turning on multi-space mode is a saas application
  • Example use case for turning off multi-space mode is an internal org tool

• Pre built UI layouts

  • High quality UI elements and layouts from Tabler

• Development focussed

  • Annotate - Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info
  • Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner
  • Byebug - Simple debugger
  • Dotenv - Load environment variables from .env

Setup

To set up the project, ensure you have PostgreSQL and Redis installed locally. Use the following commands to install them:

brew install postgresql@12 redis

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/tarunvelli/rails-tabler-starter.git

Install the required dependencies using asdf or setup the dependencies .tool-versions in other preferred method:

asdf install

Set up and run the development server:

bin/setup
bin/dev

To grant administrative privileges to a user and access admin features, run the following in the Rails console:

bundle exec rails c
> User.first.update(admin: true)

AppSettings

Toggle app settings at /setup/edit

• AppSettings.interface_layout

  • Layout of app
  • values ["VERTICAL", "VERTICAL-TRANSPARENT", "HORIZONTAL", "OVERLAP", "CONDENSED"]

• AppSettings.interface_mode

  • Light/Dark mode of app
  • "SYSTEM" picks the mode from system preferences
  • Values ["LIGHT", "DARK", "SYSTEM"]

• AppSettings.interface_theme

  • Color theme of app
  • Values ["DEFAULT", "COOL"]

• AppSettings.login_layout one of

  • Layout of login screens
  • Values ["DEFAULT", "ILLUSTRATION", "COVER"]

• AppSettings.multi_tenant_mode

  • When true allows users to sign up and create spaces
  • When false allows only admin to invite users and create spaces
  • Values [true, false]

• AppSettings.show_landing_page

  • When true root path renders landing page
  • When false root path redirects to sign in page
  • Values [true, false]

Deployment

Choose your preferred deployment platform:

• Deploy on Fly.io
• Deploy on Heroku

Contribution

Contributions to enhance this starter are highly encouraged and welcomed! Feel free to submit pull requests and improve the project collaboratively.