Rails App Generator

Create new Rails Application with custom opinions

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_app_generator'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install rails_app_generator

rag rag-simple
rag rag-tailwind
rag rag-bootstrap

If you need to make a new addon available then use thor addon:new

Generally an Addon will be for a gem so if you use the --gem option, it will bring in the GEM info such as latest version number

thor addon:new image_processing --gem
thor addon:new kaminari --gem

A profile is a sample Rails application template with files that allows you to test one or more Addons and produces a working Rails 7 application.

If you are just keeping the example to a simple GEM then use the --variant option with the folder you would like to write code into, e.g. addons

thor profile:new factory_bot --variant=addons
thor profile:new kaminari --variant=addons

You can use rails_app_generator to create Rails 7 applications You can use rails_app_generator with ruby 2.7 or 3.1

Rails new uses a batteries included approach, this means that you get everything and if you don't want a feature you need to turn it off explicitly using --skip-feature I hope to change the focus in this project so that you get very minimal installation and then you turn on what you want explicitly. Templates for rails are separated from templates for addons

As a Developer, I want to create new Rails application with flexible opinions so that I can build different rails proof of concepts

Project Plan

See all usage examples

Checkout the repo

git clone https://github.com/klueless-io/rails_app_generator

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests.

You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

bin/console

Aaa::Bbb::Program.execute()
# => ""

rails_app_generator is setup with Guard, run guard, this will watch development file changes and run tests automatically, if successful, it will then run rubocop for style quality.

To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, build the gem and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

rake publish
rake clean

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/klueless-io/rails_app_generator. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Rails App Generator project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

Copyright (c) David Cruwys. See MIT License for further details.