thegreatape/nix-rails-template

README

This is a template designed to get a simple Ruby On Rails project up and running under the nix package manager. It sets up a self-contained nix environment, creates a postgres database, and bootstraps a new Rails project to get running with. If you want to pass different options to the rails app generation, you can edit the rails new line in bootstrap.sh.

There's a little bit more detail here about how all this works. Enjoy!

1. Install nix
2. Clone this repo to a directory named what you want your project to be names: git clone https://github.com/thegreatape/nix-rails-template my_rails_project
3. Enter project cd my_rails_project
4. Start nix shell with nix-shell
5. Install and configure rails with ./bootstrap.sh
6. Start postgres with overmind s in a new terminal (with nix-shell)
7. Create the rails dev database with bundle exec rails db:create
8. Start the rails server with bundle exec rails s
9. Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000 🚀