Rails Base

Rails Base is the base Rails application template used at Flatstack. It's based on Rails 4 and Ruby 2.3.1.

Application Gems

Sass for Sass/Scss stylesheets
Zurb Foundation as CSS framework. For more information see documentation on using Foundation in Rails apps
Foundation Icon Font for icons. Browse icon set examples
Autoprefixer for writing CSS without vendor prefixes
Slim for views
Skim for client-side templates (Slim with embedded Coffeescript)
Simple Form for forms
Responders to DRY controllers
Decent Exposure to DRY controllers
Draper to decorate models for views
Decent Decoration to extend Decent Exposure with Draper
Interactors encapsulates application's business logic
Pundit to encapsulates authorization logic
Kaminari for pagination
Devise for basic auth
Rollbar for exception notification
Google Analytics Rails for Google Analytics support

Development Gems

Puma as Rails web server
Foreman for managing development stack with Procfile
Letter Opener for opening mail in the browser instead of sending it
Bullet for detecting N+1 queries and unused eager loading
Rubocop and Rubocop-Rspec for reporting violations of the Ruby style guide
Brakeman for checking application for common security vulnerabilities
Pry Rails for interactively exploring objects
Bundler Audit for scanning the Gemfile for insecure dependencies based on published CVEs
Spring for fast Rails actions via pre-loading
Web Console for better debugging via in-browser IRB consoles
SCSS-Lint for reporting violations of SCSS coding conventions
Coffeelint to keep Coffeescript code clean and consistent
Slim-Lint for reporting violations of Ruby style guide in .slim templates
Rails ERD for generating a diagram based on application's AR models

Testing Gems

Capybara and Capybara Webkit for integration testing, including JavaScript behavior
Jasmine for unit testing JavaScript code
Jasmine jQuery for jQuery matchers and fixtures in Jasmine
Factory Girl for test data
RSpec for unit testing
Shoulda Matchers for common RSpec matchers
Email Spec for common matchers for testing emails

Initializers

mailer.rb - setup default hosts for mailer from configuration
requires.rb - automatically requires everything in lib/ & lib/extensions

Scripts

bin/setup - setup required gems and migrate db if needed
bin/quality - runs rubocop, brakeman, rails_best_practices and bundle-audit for the app
bin/ci - should be used in the CI or locally
bin/server - to run server locally

Getting Started

Prepare dependencies

Some gems have native extensions. You should have GCC installed on your development machine.

qt - to run specs with Capybara Webkit
phantomjs198 - to run Javascript unit tests
graphviz - to generate Entity-Relationship Diagram

Setup required dependencies from Brewfile:

brew tap Homebrew/bundle
brew bundle

Bootstrap application

Clone application as new project with original repository named "rails-base".

git clone git://github.com/fs/rails-base.git --origin rails-base [MY-NEW-PROJECT]

Create your new repo on GitHub and push master into it. Make sure master branch is tracking origin repo.

git remote add origin git@github.com:[MY-GITHUB-ACCOUNT]/[MY-NEW-PROJECT].git
git push -u origin master

Run setup script

bin/setup

Run test and quality suits to make sure all dependencies are satisfied and applications works correctly before making changes.

bin/ci

Run app

bin/server

Update README

Do not forget to update application README.md file with detailed information based on the existing template.

mv doc/README_TEMPLATE.md README.md
# update README.md
git commit -am "Update README.md"

Deployment

Heroku

Out of the box Rails Base ready to be deployed to Heroku.com.

Heroku Postgres add-on will be used for database.
SendGrid add-on required to be able to send emails.
NewRelic add-on could be used to monitor application performance.
Rollbar add-on could be used to application errors.

heroku create --addons=heroku-postgresql,sendgrid,newrelic,rollbar --remote staging rails-base-example
heroku config:add HOST="rails-base-example.herokuapp.com" MAILER_SENDER_ADDRESS="noreply@rails-base-example.herokuapp.com" NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME="Rails Base"
git push staging master
heroku run rake db:schema:load
heroku open

Credits

Rails Base is maintained by Timur Vafin. It was written by Flatstack with the help of our contributors.

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