Rails 3 Application Template

This is the Rails template I use to facilitate the quick setup of new Rails applications

Overview

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• Sets up RVM with your choice of Ruby and gemset
• Removes Rails default files (index.html, rails.png)
• Removes timestamps from migrations
• Sets up a Git Repo
• Integrates Twitter Bootstrap
• Integrates parts of the HTML5Boilerplate
• Adds Thin, Devise, CanCan, FriendlyId, Paperclip, Debugger and Minitest to Gemfile
• Sets up Test environment using MiniTest (use rake test to run your tests)
• Sets up Devise and CanCan, and generates a User model
• Sets up Paperclip and adds Avatar to User
• Sets up FriendlyId and adds slug on username
• Adds bootstrap themed alerts and form error message partials
• Generates welcome controller with root route set to index action

Prerequisites

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RVM with at least one Ruby installed.

Usage

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Clone the repository using

git clone git://github.com/damireh/rails3-template.git

Create a new Rails application as normal, specifying the path to the template script with the -m flag

rails new appname -m rails3-template/template.rb

Credits

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Based on greendog99's rails template

• http://blog.madebydna.com/all/code/2010/10/11/cooking-up-a-custom-rails3-template.html
• http://m.onkey.org/rails-templates
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html#application-templates
• http://textmate.rubyforge.org/thor/Thor/Actions.html