codesliced/civic-rails

A Heroku ready Rails app template with minimal dependencies, designed to encourage and enable collaboration.

CivicRails App Template

This app template aims to be simple, beautiful, and easy to use. No fancy app generators here - just a Heroku ready Rails application with minimal dependencies, designed to encourage and enable collaboration.

Here are some useful resources for getting started:

• Rails 4.x on Heroku
• PostgreSQL setup
• The Twelve-Factor App

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/invisiblefunnel/civic-rails my-civic-app
$ cd my-civic-app
$ git remote rename origin template
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare
$ rake # run the complete test suite
$ rails server

Customize

Renaming the application is easy with the provided rake task. Pass the desired name as an argument and the constants and database configuration will be updated.

$ rake rename[MyCivicApp]
$ rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare # setup new databases
$ rake # confirm that the test suite passes
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Rename to MyCivicApp"

Deploy

See the Getting Started guide if you haven't used Heroku before.

$ heroku create <app name>
$ heroku addons:add pgbackups:auto-month # recommended
$ heroku config:set SECRET_KEY_BASE=`bundle exec rake secret`
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run rake db:migrate
$ heroku open