Instant Rails is a Rails application template that comes with certain common tools, like Devise and RSpec, pre-installed.
Instant Rails is a special kind of Rails application template. Instant Rails will generate your application inside of a Docker container so that you don't even need to have Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL or anything else installed on your computer in order to generate a Rails app.
I have a relatively frequent need to create "throwaway" Rails apps for educational purposes. I created Instant Rails to help me with two problems:
- Even though it's not that much work to create a new Rails application, it's still too tedious to do all the Rails project initialization work every time I want a new project.
- For students, it's often too hard for them to get my projects set up on their computer (especially, often, the PostgreSQL-related parts).
A Dockerized application template helps solve both these problems.
In order to use Instant Rails, you must have Docker installed.
First, clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/jasonswett/instant_rails.git
cd instant_railsThen run the init.sh script.
./init.sh your_app_nameThis script will create a Rails application and start a Rails server.
Once the script finishes, you can visit localhost:3001 (note that the port is 3001, not 3000) and see your app running.
To get help, just open an issue or email me at jason@codewithjason.com.
This project was inspired in part by Mike Rogers' Docker/Rails template.