Spinup

A gem for setting up playgrounds — small working apps for proof-of-concept stages.

Currently available for

• Sinatra
• Typescript
• SASS/SCSS
• Jekyll
• Flask

Sometimes I want to check real quick if something works with some of the technologies I use.

Setting up a new project isn't a big pain, but it's like ten commands or something, and it's not like you do that every day, so you don't remember those anyway, do you? I usually go to one of my current projects and add some code somewhere to check if it works, but it's not ideal.

So I went and created a few playgrounds — small working apps which aren't much different from what you get by following 'Getting started' chapter of their documentation. And a gem for setting them up.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spinup'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install spinup

Spin up a sinatra playground in current directory

$ spinup sinatra .

Spin up a typescript playground somewhere (somewhere is currently under '~/.spinup-playgrounds')

$ spinup typescript

-h is for help and it also prints a list of currently available playgrounds

$ spinup -h
Usage: spinup <playground> [<directory>]
Supported playgrounds: sinatra, jekyll, typescript, flask, sass
    -h, --help                       Prints this help

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/velll/spinup.

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