My personal Rails quickstart

If there’s one things Rails is very good for, it’s prototyping. When you know it, Rails becomes a powerful tool for testing ideas, prototyping interfaces and concepts.

Starting a new Rails app is easy, especially with projects like Rails Apps Composer and RailsBricks. Although these projects are great, I find myself growing more comfortable with a strong, simple base project for my apps. And having used it more and more recently, I decided to share it.

It uses the following:

• Rails 4.2
• PostgreSQL as a database
• Turbolinks are removed (yay!)
• RSpec for writing specs
• Capybara for proper acceptance testing. I use poltergeist to test using PhantomJS.
• Settingslogic to store the settings
• Zurb Foundation as a frontend framework

I usually simply git clone the fresh repo into a directory. Although the app name is still “Rails-Quickstart”, that’s not usually a problem, especially for quick prototyping objects. Also, Zurb provides a set of excellent templates that can be plugged right into the fresh app, so I can start focusing on the features.

Now all I have to do is run

git clone git@github.com:minivan/rails-quickstart.git