Rails Base

Rails Base is the base Rails application template used at Flatstack. It's based on Rails 5 and Ruby 2.4.2

Application Gems

• Sass for Sass/Scss stylesheets
• Zurb Foundation as CSS framework. For more information see documentation on using Foundation in Rails apps
• Foundation Icon Font for icons. Browse icon set examples
• Autoprefixer for writing CSS without vendor prefixes
• Slim for views
• Simple Form for forms
• Responders to DRY controllers
• Decent Exposure to DRY controllers
• Draper to decorate models for views
• Decent Decoration to extend Decent Exposure with Draper
• Interactors encapsulates application's business logic
• Pundit to encapsulates authorization logic
• Kaminari for pagination
• Devise for basic auth
• Rollbar for exception notification
• Google Analytics Rails for Google Analytics support

Development Gems

• Puma as Rails web server
• Letter Opener for opening mail in the browser instead of sending it
• Bullet for detecting N+1 queries and unused eager loading
• Rubocop and Rubocop-Rspec for reporting violations of the Ruby style guide
• Brakeman for checking application for common security vulnerabilities
• Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
• Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
• Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
• Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles
• SCSS-Lint for reporting violations of SCSS coding conventions
• Coffeelint to keep Coffeescript code clean and consistent
• Slim-Lint for reporting violations of Ruby style guide in .slim templates
• Rails ERD for generating a diagram based on application's AR models

Testing Gems

• Capybara and poltergeist for integration testing, including JavaScript behavior
• Jasmine for unit testing JavaScript code
• Jasmine jQuery for jQuery matchers and fixtures in Jasmine
• Factory Girl for test data
• RSpec for unit testing
• Shoulda Matchers for common RSpec matchers
• Email Spec for common matchers for testing emails

Initializers

• mailer.rb - setup default hosts for mailer from configuration
• requires.rb - automatically requires everything in lib/ & lib/extensions

Scripts

• bin/setup - setup required gems and migrate db if needed
• bin/quality - runs rubocop, brakeman, rails_best_practices and bundle-audit for the app
• bin/ci - should be used in the CI or locally
• bin/server - to run server locally

Getting Started

Prepare dependencies

Some gems have native extensions. You should have GCC installed on your development machine.

• phantomjs - to run Javascript unit tests
• graphviz - to generate Entity-Relationship Diagram

Setup required dependencies from Brewfile:

brew tap Homebrew/bundle
brew bundle

Bootstrap application

1. Clone application as new project with original repository named "rails-base".

   git clone git://github.com/fs/rails-base.git --origin rails-base [MY-NEW-PROJECT]

2. Create your new repo on GitHub and push master into it. Make sure master branch is tracking origin repo.

git remote add origin git@github.com:[MY-GITHUB-ACCOUNT]/[MY-NEW-PROJECT].git
git push -u origin master

3. Run setup script

bin/setup

4. Run test and quality suits to make sure all dependencies are satisfied and applications works correctly before making changes.

bin/ci

5. Run app

bin/server

6. Update README

Do not forget to update application README.md file with detailed information based on the existing template.

mv doc/README_TEMPLATE.md README.md
# update README.md
git commit -am "Update README.md"

Deployment

Heroku

Out of the box Rails Base ready to be deployed to Heroku.com.

• Heroku Postgres add-on will be used for database.
• SendGrid add-on required to be able to send emails.
• NewRelic add-on could be used to monitor application performance.
• Rollbar add-on could be used to application errors.

heroku create --addons=heroku-postgresql,sendgrid,newrelic,rollbar --remote staging rails-base-example
heroku config:add HOST="rails-base-example.herokuapp.com" MAILER_SENDER_ADDRESS="noreply@rails-base-example.herokuapp.com" NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME="Rails Base"
git push staging master
heroku run rake db:schema:load
heroku open

Custom Server

To be able to deploy to your custom server Cloud66.com recommended as a provisioning and deployment service. Make sure to review and configure cloud66/manifest.yml before deployment.

Credits

Rails Base is maintained by Timur Vafin. It was written by Flatstack with the help of our contributors.