6/rails-on-rails

most of my rails apps start out the same way

Get up and running quickly with Rails.

prereqs

make sure you have new-ish version of PostgreSQL installed (and optionally RVM)

checklist

1. git clone git://github.com/6/rails-on-rails.git APPNAME
2. edit APPNAME/.rvmrc to change gemset name
3. cd APPNAME and run bundle install
4. git remote rm origin and then git remote add origin your-github-repo-url
5. add upstream URL to pull in later changes with git remote add upstream https://github.com/6/rails-on-rails.git
6. run rails c, enter SecureRandom.hex(64), and copy that value to config/initializers/secret_token.rb
7. edit config/database.yml and make DB config changes
8. create .env and insert any secret ENV variables (e.g. API keys). Add BASE_URL=http://localhost:5000
9. edit config/locales/en.yml to insert your app info
10. rake db:create and then rake db:migrate
11. create a heroku app on cedar: heroku create APPNAME -s cedar
12. add newrelic: heroku addons:add newrelic:standard

Once you sign up, you can make yourself (or other users) and admin:

rails c
User.find_by_email("your@email.com").add_role :admin

Then, navigate to http://localhost:5000/admin to administer data.

start

run foreman start

pulling in updates

git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master