Tanooki Rails Template

This repository holds the Rails application template referred to in our kickoff developer guide.

Usage

Find the newest version of ruby that heroku supports that has been released for more than 6 months and make sure you're using it (via ruby --version)

install rails and bundler globally

gem update --system
gem install rails --no-document
gem update bundler

Clone or create a directory for your rails app and move into it

Run rails new with the template with these commands:

# make sure you're up to date!
rails --version 
rails new example-project-name \
      --database=postgresql \
      --skip-javascript \
      --skip-test \
      --skip-action-mailbox \
      --skip-action-text \
      --skip-jbuilder \
      --template=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TanookiLabs/tanooki-rails-template/master/template.rb

Clean up Gemfile
Refer back to the kickoff guide and make sure you've followed the Heroku Checklist
setup authentication with devise if applicable
setup authorization with action policy if applicable