Wagon Rails

Wagon Rails is the base Rails application used by Le Wagon's students during the 9-week FullStack bootcamp. It's the scripted version of lewagon/rails-kickoff where you would manually copy/paste commands to achieve the same result with just one command line.

Installation

First install the wagon_rails gem:

$ gem install wagon_rails

Then run:

$ cd ~/code/YOUR_GITHUB_NICKNAME
$ wagon_rails new YOUR_PROJECT_NAME

This will create a Rails app in YOUR_PROJECT_NAME using the latest version of Rails, create a GitHub repository and an application on Heroku.

Advanced usages

If you don't want to create a GitHub repo, use the --skip-github flag, and if you don't want to create an Heroku app, use the --skip-heroku flag.

$ wagon_rails new YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --skip-github --skip-heroku

Dependencies

This gem suppose that you have Postgresql on your computer. Check out lewagon/setup

For the GitHub repo creation, it assumes you have the hub gem installed.

$ gem install hub

And for the Heroku app creation, it assumes that you have the heroku binary and are logged in (heroku login).

$ brew install heroku
$ heroku login

Gemfile

To see the latest and greatest gems, look at WagonRails' Gemfile, which will be appended to the default generated projectname/Gemfile.

It includes application gems like:

Postgres for access to the Postgres database
Figaro for environment variables and configuration management.
Simple Form for form markup and style
High Voltage for static pages
Devise for user authentication
Paperclip for file attachment and S3 upload.
Bootstrap to jump start the design with a solid responsive grid and basic UI components.
Font Awesome to get a nice iconography

And development gems like:

Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
Pry ByeBug for interactively debugging behavior
Better Errors for a great error page with remote debugging
Letter Opener for testing emails in development.

And production gems for a ready-to-deploy app on Heroku.

Rails 12factor for injecting the required Rails configuration
Puma for a blazing fast HTTP server in production (recommended by Heroku)

WagonRails, when the --skip-heroku flag is not used, will add a deploy script to the bin repository. Simply deploy with:

$ deploy  # git push heroku + rake db:migrate + restart

Option

You can enable Pundit for user authorization, open the Gemfile, uncomment the pundit gem. Then:

$ bundle install
$ rails g pundit:install

Credits

WagonRails is a fork of thoughtbot/suspenders, which is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc.

Thank you guys for creating this gem in the first place!