Rails Boilerplate

Starting a Rails project and getting it to deploy can be a pain. I'm keeping track of the basic configuration elements for my preferred environment, including Compass, Mongoid, RSpec, Guard and Spork so that I can quickly get projects running and deployed to Heroku/MongoHQ.

You are welcome to use this as a starting point and fork with your preferred settings.

Quick start

To start a project directly from this boilerplate and init a new git repository, run the following:

git clone git@github.com:samgro/rails-boilerplate.git <YOUR APP NAME>

Replace all references to Boilerplate and boilerplate with your app name using your favorite global find/replace.

rm Gemfile.lock
bundle install
rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'first commit'

Details

This is a Rails 3.2 project generated with rails g boilerplate. I've made the following modifications:

• bundle exec compass install rails
• rails g mongoid:config
• rails g rspec:install
• Added thin/Procfile for Heroku server
• Set mongoid production environment to use MongoHQ
• Added some sane default styles
• HomeController with a test index
• Added Guardfile/spec_helper for using Guard/Spork

MIT License.